Being a baby in the 60s, I remember little sunsuits. They’re super cute and easy because the clothing is all in one piece. They’re made for carefree summer days. I found this pattern and decided it was the cutest thing ever. It’s actually a Simplicity pattern. It ranged in size from 1/2, which I am assuming is a little baby size, for about 6 months. I wanted to make a

My son called me the other day from school. He’s away at college. He asked me if he could use the credit card to purchase some pajama bottoms online. He said that all of his pajamas had rips in the crotch. So, like a good mother I said…..NO! I have a ton of NHL fabric that just arrived at the shop. I will make you several pairs. Well, I made

A good quilt has a good design. Wow. That’s not exactly profound. A great quilt has a good design, and then another good design. Well, that’s a little better. What I mean by that is that the best quilts have multiple components when looking long enough. Whether that is a primary and secondary design, or whether that is a design, and then a closer inspection that yields interesting fabrics. Yes,

So I was talking about sorting your colors into clear bins last time. Have you done that yet? If you haven’t, then you better hop to it because now I am going to tell you the really fun part. So we all know that all blues are not created equal–and that goes for reds, yellows, greens and more. When you look at the colors in each box, there are a

Time to talk about how we are actually sorting fabric and fabric selection. This applies mostly to scrap quilting, but can be used for any type of quilt you want to make. I have a little decision tree that I use. This is what it looks like. My favorite color is orange, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t have blue or green moods every once in a while. Our

So you want to take the fear out of color selection for your quilts. Well, much of this discussion is going to focus around scrap quilting, but much of what I talk about will relate to all color selection for quilting. The biggest thing that customers ask for help with is color selection. There are so many schools of thought on color, that it will take a series of posts

Have you ever had a situation where you felt that no matter what, you couldn’t make the inside of a garment look neat and tidy? I was taught in my early years of sewing that the inside of the garment needed to look neat and tidy. In fact, I was a 4-Her. We entered our garments to be judged every summer at the county fair. If your garment was really

So, when I wrote my first book, this is one of the first blocks that I had created. I had known that I would use only 3 template sizes for all of my blocks–3 1/2”, 4 1/2” and 5 1/2”. They played so well together in terms of least common multiple, and how well they fit together in combinations of their half square triangles and more. Well, I came up

I just wanted a break from all the packaging orders and sewing things that I was “supposed” to be sewing. It’s January. I just wanted to break loose and sew something totally frivolous. What could be more frivolous than little zippy heart pouches? I want to fill these with candy. They’re little. So, you can’t really put a lot of candy into these. But, it’s perfect. They are small enough