Karen at First Fruit Flowers blogged about the custom sampler project I recently completed for her. You may remember this as the pattern I ...

I love to find vintage stamped-for-embroidery quilt blocks, even if it's just one or two blocks from a set. I might feel differently if ...

I got a suspiciously large amount of orders for buttons over the past few days. Not that I'm complaining—that's the whole point, is...

I know, its 5 am and I should be sleeping. But it was warm enough to leave the window open last night and I woke to the sound of hundreds of...

About fifteen years ago I developed a bad case of bursitis in my left hip. If you've ever had bursitis (and most people get it in elbows...

Look at this little guy. Found yesterday morning at the edge of my yard. I was out hanging the bird feeders (still not taking any chances le...

Yesterday afternoon I drove to a couple of my favorite nearby antique malls. I always look for cute and unusual examples of embroidery and I...

Even if I didn't know it was May I could tell that it was by the lilacs. When I was a kid living in New York we had huge lilac bushes b...

Where do you find vintage fabrics—aren't they really expensive? Yes, often they are. And, if you look in the usual places, you'll of...

I wrote this post while sitting in my car yesterday morning in a little notebook that I carry with me everywhere. You never know when inspir...

A walk in the woods this time of year doesn't seem like it would be all that exciting. It's only just starting to warm up and the wo...

I have to apologize for my lack of posting lately. Sometimes I just lose my voice and can't come up with anything interesting to say. Mo...

A visitor to my garden this past weekend... The light was pretty harsh when I took this photo so it doesn't quite capture how electrical...

I sometimes wonder whether my website is becoming too large. I do know that I need to redesign a bit to make it easier to find things becau...

Aren't these fun? Original can labels for Kalico Kat and Fuzzy Wuzzy brand cat foods! I found these at the Olde Engine Works Market Plac...

Happy first day of spring! And this seems like an appropriate time for my annual getting-ready-to-garden post. And it also coincides well wi...

I don't know how many years it's been since I received my first promotion from illustrator Judith Moffatt . I know that I lived in I...

Remember the baby quilt I was working on for my friend Jenny and showed you all the stages of it's creation here on my blog? Well, I del...

I've been really good about staying away from Ebay lately. Not that I don't still look but I'm more careful about what I bid on ...

I've been reading The Daily Coyote: A Story of Love, Survival, and Trust in the Wilds of Wyoming by Shreve Stockton about her adventur...