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Noticing and Making

On a recent walk in my neighborhood I stopped to take a picture of a bird’s nest. It isn’t as if I’d never seen one…

Trustworthy advice for buying a sewing machine For a new sewist, perhaps nothing is more important or more confusing to find than a sewing machine…

Fall is far and away my favorite season It is the best time for making, whether it’s quilts, sweaters, or dresses. In the past I…

I am rereading a favorite novel of mine I Capture the Castle is a coming of age story, narrated by seventeen year old Cassandra, as…

I don’t know if I should be embarrassed to admit this but I started the hand quilting on my first quilt over a year ago…

Meg’s Me Made May Week 2 Day 1: Otis Overalls + old tee My favorite look of the bunch! I love the look of a…

“Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color. Suppose I were to speak this as though it were…

When my middle son, who has a serious heart defect, was a baby, I remember his cardiologist talking about how his medical needs would vary…

This post was originally published on April 25, 2016. Or, why I took a break from sewing, and why I got back to it. I…