One of son’s friends had a birthday party at a bakery last weekend. The kids had a great time making bread and decorating cupcakes. In keeping with the baking theme, I made the birthday girl a little apron and some felt baked goods.

The apron is from the free tutorial by Meg McElwee at Sew Liberated. I […]

I am so excited to have a few Christmas crafts/gifts done so early thanks to Betz White’s Felt & Stitch Holiday online workshop.  My friend Annmarie signed up with me, and we had a great time getting together each week to work on our projects. Here’s a few pictures of my favorite projects.  The Santa napkin […]

Here’s my latest craft project for the AP: a scalloped fabric bunting. I know there are lots of tutorials out there already, but I tried to streamline the process a bit by using circles cut in half, and by making the largest scallops I could using 1/4-yard cuts of fabric.

I actually made a longer […]

Update: Here’s my little astronaut, heading out for some tricks and treats. Sadly, I am at home with the flu and won’t even get to shrug off any praise his costume attracts.  “Oh, that? Just a little duct tape!” I had imagined myself saying. Sigh. Hopefully I will be better by tomorrow when we hit the streets again. Click […]

(UPDATE: Click HERE to see the final result in action)

I was all set to sew my son a fairly easy white jumpsuit to make his astronaut Halloween costume when I came up with what seemed like a great idea: turning a thrift-store snowsuit into a spacesuit. […]

This little book is my entry into the Scrap Busters contest at Sew, Mama, Sew! Today’s the contest deadline, but I’m trying not to look at it as waiting until the last minute but rather focusing on, “I have finished a Christmas gift in October!” The recipient will be my cousin’s baby, who probably will mostly be interested in […]

Here’s the centerpiece I came up with for our apple-picking party and harvest dinner earlier this month: a needle-felted pumpkin. I took small pieces of wool roving, maybe 1/4 inch wide and a few inches long,  jabbed the ends into the pumpkin and then wrappedthe roving into a spiral to make circles, needle felting as I went […]