Guess who never published the post I drafted to announce my Memorial Day pattern sale? Â Yup, that was me. Â So I’m going to extend the sale through the end of may ending Saturday, May 31 at Midnight EST. In observance of Memorial Day, I’m offering 20% off all patterns in the Jennuine Design pattern {…Continue Reading}
I am so excited to show you the Bohemian Babydoll dress I made for Arden!  I’m sure you’re all familiar with Heidi from Elegance & Elephants (* affilate link) from Bubble Pocket Shorts, Ruffle Top, or Fedora Hat fame, to name just a few of her stellar patterns! Arden is super excited about it as well, {…Continue Reading}
Today I have the unique honor of participating in a wonderful series hosted by Shaffer Sisters and Call Ajaire, a Sew-a-bration of Womanhood. The focus on the series is to celebrate womanhood in all its forms. Â I took the opportunity to do something I don’t do all that often – some selfish (or {…Continue Reading}
I am so thankful to Christina from 2 Little Hooligans for giving me the perfect kick in the pants to clean up and organize my space and take you on a little sewing studio tour! My “studio” is our dining room, which is smack dab in the center of our house. Â Our home was {…Continue Reading}
Wahoo! Â Today I’m taking part in a really cool series – The Fashionable Type. Â This is the brainchild of Stacey of Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy Crafts, and it will bring together typography in fashion brought to you by a bunch of sewing and creative bloggers. I’m all over a cute graphic tee {…Continue Reading}
Eeek! Â Guess what!? Â My work has been published in a magazine!! Â Sew-it… today was looking for projects using men’s ties, and I threw my Necktie Wine Tote project I had created as a guest post on The Girl Creative into the hat, and they chose to publish it with a great collection of other inspiring {…Continue Reading}
It’s the last day of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée, and I’m really going to miss getting to see everyone’s amazing work each day!  Haven’t they all been spectacular? Today we have a special treat for you – “we” being one of my fab-o testers Shelly, who has a stellar fabric store on Etsy. {…Continue Reading}
Today I’m at SNAP! Conference in Salt Lake City, so I’ll get straight to my amazing testers’ versions!: Stacey with From a Box made this cool peplum version with cap sleeves, and proved me wrong that the hem band was only for the dress!  I love how it pulls the sash fabric down to the bottom.  Paired {…Continue Reading}
It’s Day 3 of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée release.  Today I’d like to take the opportunity to share how this design evolved. The first time you would have seen the Matinée Dress was when I was competing in Sew-Vivor on Family Ever After.  The challenge was simply “Emerald”, which left the door wide open {…Continue Reading}
It’s Day 2 of the tester’s pattern tour for the release of the Matinée pattern.  Before I share my tester’s lovely versions, I wanted to talk to you about the features of the pattern itself: Beginning with the pattern title page with these fabulously adorable watercolors I commissioned from Dandyroo Designs on Etsy.  Candace took {…Continue Reading}
