Webinar Promo from The Clever Guild on Vimeo. I am teaming up with Create Mixed Media to offer a free webinar to celebrate the release of Dreaming from the Journal Page. Please sign up using this link. The Webinar will be Thursday, April 26th at 1 p.m. All registered participants will receive a recorded transcriptContinue reading “Free Webinar!”
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A little help from my friends.
So, I am on a sewing bender. I have always wanted to find a few patterns and perfect them to fit my body and just keep making them. I like this blouse garnered from the pages of Female Magazine, but it has its faults. See those red dots? That is where the shoulder seams fall.Continue reading “A little help from my friends.”
Meese Bowl MMXII
Melly’s Jelly
Jelly Rolls. Who knew? I for one am ignorant of these things. I rarely shop and I have come to understand that I am a quilter like I am a fish out of water. Yes, I quilt, but I don’t deal with 1/4″ seams, commercial fabrics or the latest new ‘thing’. So when I wentContinue reading “Melly’s Jelly”
Art Journaling: Exposed
In celebration of the new eMag Art Journaling Exposed, we have decided to have a blog hop and talk up our experience of creating artwork and working with Interweave to present this new and exciting magazine. I wrote an article for a column called Background Check, because we all need to start somewhere. This article wasContinue reading “Art Journaling: Exposed”
Sew Along, Podcast and fun.
I have been having so much fun sewing. A few of you have said you would join me in a Sew Along. I have been looking for non-Japanese and FREE patterns. Dixie DIY is a GREAT web site and she has several patterns to download. Here is the link to the free NanoContinue reading “Sew Along, Podcast and fun.”
This just in, we need to interrupt this regularly sch…
I think I am having a star crush right now. Remember when the picture of Russell Crow, knitting, was circulating? Totally crush worthy. I have a source who identified this box as a 5 series machine! LOL.
Where we began.
Earlier this week, I asked you to tell me how you began sewing. The comments are fabulous. I honestly think I was destined to work with my hands, I have always had an aptitude for it. I can close my eyes and visualize how something should go together. At a very young age, I rememberContinue reading “Where we began.”
Texture and fun in the Brooklyn
Yeah, yum.
Tell me.
How did you start sewing? I think I was maybe 20 years old when I decided to set up my mom’s sewing machine and started making bags. I remember feeling overwhelmed by the pattern I bought. Soon after this, I found a sewing teacher. She was a retired Home Economics professor. I took weekly lessonsContinue reading “Tell me.”
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