*Deal Alert* All About Spelling FREE Interactive Kit

I'm excited to share this new offer from All About Spelling! For the next two days, get a FREE interactive kit when you buy both Level 1 and Level 2 of All About Spelling. This kit includes a storage box and all the magnetic letter tiles you'll need to get started with this curriculum. (Deal…

Hand Embroidered Owl Dress

Ever since my youngest daughter was 18 months, she's been obsessed with owls. I don't quite know what the trigger for it was, however around about that time, our homeschool community did an owl pellet dissection with my older kids, later that day I showed my kids some owl pellet videos on YouTube (and again…

Itch to Stitch Sibiu Top {Release}

My month of clothes for me continues, with the new Sibiu Top from Itch to Stitch! I love how easy this cosy top is to whip up! I feel like the thing that took the longest time was getting it all cut out (I don't know about you, but cutting out takes me forever, making…

Itch to Stitch Quebec Skirt {Release}

I've been kicking off the new year with a bunch of things for MY wardrobe! It's a nice change! Itch to Stitch's Quebec Skirt seemed like a fairly quick and easy skirt to test out AND I had fabric in my stash to use up! Win win! I paired my Quebec skirt with the Carlsbad…

Itch to Stitch Azores Top & Dress {Release}

Happy 2022! Late last year, I tested the Azores Top & Dress for Itch to Stitch and it just released TODAY! This is an adorable top with shirred waist and sleeves, available in women's sizes 00-40. Perfect with flowy, lightweight fabrics, the top makes for a very feminine blouse. Azores is rated as intermediate+ due…

2021 in Review

So I have a confession: I'm really, really bad at remembering what I've done this week, let alone this year. But it is nice to do these roundups, so I'll dig through my blogs and calendar and see how I go in summarizing the year! Books I've Read All the books I read in 2021…

Christmas Sparkles & Fur, Oh My! {for FabricMart}

With just a few days to go before Christmas, I knew my final FabricMart make of 2021 needed to be fancy Christmas dresses for my daughters! Ignoring all the dire warnings from sewists on the Internet, I bravely selected some cranberry sequined stretch velvet, panther black polyester faux fur, and polyester stretch lining. And then…

Peony Patterns Cerise Dress {Release}

I'm excited to share my final pattern test of the year, the Cerese dress from Peony Patterns! (This means I have all the last minute Christmas sewing to get working on now!!). Cerese (French for "cherry") is a lovely woven dress with an elastic waist, short and long sleeve options with tie cuffs, optional pintuck…

Peony Patterns Winterberry Hand Embroidery {Release}

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina/Tennessee This Thanksgiving, we packed up the car and drove from Washington, DC down to the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee! We had such a great time, but I knew the drive would be 8 hours each way, so I had to be prepared! I printed out…

Annie’s Kit Clubs – Cyber Monday Deal!

If you're looking for a fun Christmas gift that keeps on giving this season, take a look at Annie's Kit Clubs! I gave one of these to my daughter last year and she just loved it! Each month of your subscription, you receive a package filled with creative projects to work on. There are various…