I’ve been seeing a lot of quilts getting finished during the quarantine. There seems to be a bunch of people out there on their 3rd or 4th quilt and I’m sitting here having finished nothing… Read More »Review of Simplicity 8939 Fitted Crib Sheet
One of the most frustrating things about making and designing quilts is figuring out what size to make them. There are no standard sizes and everyone has their own opinion on how large to make… Read More »Guide to Common Quilt Sizes
I’m a prewasher when it comes to fabrics. I like to preshrink them since I do a lot of mixing purchased fabrics with hand dyed fabrics. I also like to make sure my fabric isn’t… Read More »Bleeding Fabric: The Grape Stomp of Desperation
This Glorious Galaxy Quilt is going to be a gift for a special someone so I wanted to quilt it with something special! I do all my quilting on my tiny little domestic machine. I’ve… Read More »Star Quilting
The Glorious Galaxy Dye + Quilt Pattern is now available! This is the first of what I hope to be many patterns that include instructions for not only sewing the quilt but dyeing some of… Read More »Glorious Galaxy Dye + Quilt Pattern
I love Halloween but this year I had a bit of a panic moment when my kid came home with a flyer saying the school party was happening the week before Halloween. I had completely… Read More »Succulent Halloween Costume
I don’t know about you guys, but when I start cutting the same thing over and over eventually I end up miscutting something. It never fails! I’ll be looking through my stack of finished blocks… Read More »Quick Tip for Consistent Cutting
The fifth and final week of the Summer Travel Series is here! It’s been a lot of fun making all this travel gear. I hope you have had fun following along and maybe making a… Read More »Camp Shower Mesh Bag Plus Mesh Tote Pocket
Welcome to the fourth week of the Summer Travel Series! Today’s installment features three sizes of travel accessory bags! On previous camping trips we’ve just been shoving our stuff into old backpacks and plastic zip… Read More »Travel Accessory Bags
It’s week three of the Summer Travel Series and today we’re talking about more sleep! …Yeah, I know we just talked about sleep last week with the DIY sleep mask, but sleep is kind of… Read More »Camp Pillow Stuff Sack Tutorial
We’re onto our second week in the Summer Travel Series, and today we’re talking sleep! Does anyone else have an issue with how bright morning is? We have room darkening shades and sometimes the light… Read More »DIY Sleep Mask
Whoohoo! It’s time to start our summer vacation and in celebration I’ll be doing a Summer Travel Series over the next few weeks on the blog! To start it off today I have an in-depth… Read More »Car Seat Organizer Tutorial