It’s that time of year again where people are starting to ask me for gift ideas for the sewists in their life! You might have read my gift ideas that I posted a couple of years ago (if not, you can click HERE to…
Thanksgiving is right around the corner!! I don’t know about you, but I love decorating for ALL holidays, including Thanksgiving. As soon as Halloween is over, my son is ready to put up the Christmas tree, but I always tell him NO! Let the turkey…
*This post is primarily for my fashion design students As some of my regular readers may know, I teach sewing classes 🙂 One of the classes I’ve added this semester is a fashion design course. This is an advanced class, for students who have taken…
I’m really excited to share this fun project with you today! I have been wanting to offer a class making fabric bins/boxes, and with Valentine’s Day coming up, it seemed like a fun time to do it! I remember making boxes in elementary school (and…
Thanksgiving is just around the corner! Where has 2022 gone? I can hardly believe we are at the end of the year already. Is it just me or does every year seem to go by faster and faster?? At any rate, holiday sewing is my…
Happy Monday!! Are Mondays ever really happy? Ha ha. For me, Monday is a day to plan out my week, get ahead on the menu planning and the laundry and all the other boring chores of the household. And sometimes, when I’m lucky, I might…
It’s officially Spooky Season!! Actually, when does spooky season officially begin? We are still in September and maybe it isn’t truly spooky season until October, but the stores already have their Halloween stuff out and my house is officially decorated (as of last weekend), so…
Last week, I shared part 1 of 2 of my back-to-school sewing workshop classes that I offered. We sewed reusable lunch bags and reusable snack bags. They were super fun, quick and eco-friendly! Another request I had from a student was to make notebook covers.…
Happy Back-To-School!! Remember the days when school didn’t start until after Labor Day? Those were the good ol’ days! Our kids have been back in school for a month now. Not sure whose bright idea it was to send them back during the hottest month…
During the school year, I teach sewing classes at a homeschool learning center (a job that I absolutely LOVE!!) I teach both Sewing 1 (which starts at the very beginning with all the sewing basics) as well as a Sewing 2 class. The first…
