The new batch of tissue cozies I've been working on this week is almost done. Yesterday I chose button combinations to match the fabrics...

And no, not the political pre-election kind :) Snow! Very early-in-the-season snow! An icy leaf I woke up early (like 4-ish) this morning be...

I had a great meeting with Cristin Powers of GreenBeing last week and I'm going to be selling some of my things on consignment in her n...

I don't buy myself presents very often but it was my birthday last week and I've been good lately (hee!). So, I bought myself a pinc...

I finished the embroidery on Saturday and then soaked and washed the finished blocks to remove the storage dirt and transfer lines. I also w...

I was getting ready to go out this morning, ironing a blouse to wear in my studio which is right next door to my bedroom. Sienna started meo...

Look at this cutie. One of a pair of vintage stamped-for-embroidery baby bibs I won on Ebay last week. They arrived yesterday and I love ...

I woke up suddenly at 2 am this morning. Amaya, one of my cats, was sitting on my bedside table looking out the open window and hissing. The...

Check out the Daily Swatch this week on True Up: All Fabric, All the Time . It's children's week and they'll be featuring photos...

I've been photographing and listing buttons on my website like crazy, so many now that I've had to create another page in the plast...

Here's what I'm thinking the quilt will look like (sketch done in Photoshop using swatches from the fabric store website that have b...

Another finished block: I should be finished with the embroidery this week. All the blocks are at least halfway done with most needing just ...

Well, the quilt shop didn't have the fabric I wanted, although they did have another colorway. That was enough to check on the shade of ...

It was a very cool, rainy weekend, and the leaves are starting to change colors and fall. I'll soon be adding raking leaves to my to-do ...

I usually talk about the fun parts of living in the country—the garden, the birds, the peace and quiet. This past week I've been doing o...

My latest Ebay vintage fabric purchase... Luckily this was a buy now auction so I didn't have to bid! It's a very finely woven combe...

OK, the baby quilt. My friend Jenny had just painted her guest bedroom coral and then she found out she was pregnant. And didn't want to...

JZ asks, I'm interested in the process you use to select the components in your design - hankie, fabric, lace edging, buttons. What'...

A few of the sachets I mentioned in passing the other day. Two dozen of these are headed to a shop in California. And my supply of hankies i...

A morning glory from my garden—what a color! I really didn't mean to be away for so long, but I got caught up in the presidential conven...