This is how I deal with the heat... By sleeping. Of course, that's how I deal with most things, but the screened porch is especially ni...

It's been unbelievably hot here the past few days—in the 90s! Thankfully it does cool off a little at night and stays cool for a few hou...

I promised to show you another apron that uses rickrack creatively and here it is. The technique for attaching the rickrack can be used on a...

Stitch School has moved to it's very own space on the web! You'll now find the Chicken Scratch post  here . Comments are now closed ...

This really isn't a gardening blog but it's hard to tell lately since that's all I've talked about. It's certainly more ...

I'm not sure I've mentioned exactly where I buy all the lovely plants for my garden. I'm blessed to have two great places within...

Not quite an "after" picture yet but we're making progress. The stone walkway is in... A few plants have been added. And a ben...

Unbelievable that it's July already - where does the time go? My absence from blogging this past week might lead you to think that I...

I'm running out of space, I want to get started on new designs, I'm just plain sick of looking at them. Time for a blowout pillow sa...

I don't often talk about the rest of my life here on my blog. One, because I'm a pretty private person, and two, because you all com...

A few pictures of me with my dad who, unfortunately, is no longer with us. Going through all the photos to chose one for today's post go...

Remember those lovely seed packages I showed you a couple of months ago? I got an email from the company a few days ago announcing that th...

I don't know what it is this year—perfect weather, plenty of rain, the planets aligning—but the garden looks spectacular. Even the grass...

I was sold out of these cute duck diaper pins for a while but I now have them back in stock. And (shhh, don't tell anyone) but I've...

Last summer I got an email from C. Dianne Zweig asking if I'd like to contribute to a book she was working on. You may be familiar with ...

Except for when I first started my business and had to supplement with an influx of my own cash, Primrose has been self-supporting. That...

I've been seeing this graphic a lot lately on some of the political blogs I read. Funny but also not if you know what I mean. I know tha...

This holiday weekend was a flurry of activity—most of it taking place outside. I'll tell you about Saturday in a minute but Sunday and M...

A photo from a long time ago. This is my grandma Elizabeth in one of her perfect sweater sets, my mom with her ponytail and bobby-pinned cu...

A couple of years ago I started a group ( Feedsacks ) on Flickr to catalog some of the 15,000 existing patterns of feedsacks. This was a pro...