Good gracious! And the worst pictures ever!* The Purple Blob. I finished this just after last year's retreat and promptly decided it wa...

A crummy picture of a dress, but a dress nonetheless. This is Vogue 2902 , it started out as view A, but ended up view B (with the contrast...

In a crazed moment of silliness, I bought this flamingo fabric thinking I would make a 1950's style dress, full skirt and all. When I c...

Done! I'm sorry to say, I loved making this quilt. I thought the free motion quilting would be the most difficult part, but after a coup...

After taking pictures of flowers I was struck with the crazy notion that I could bring other thing outside to take pictures. Wacky. T...

I hoped that Mabel would help with pictures, but not so much in this case (but at least I managed to crop out the litter box before posting)...

I used a Singer 151G dress form and am working on padding and stuffing so she will be fairly similar to me. She's still a little lumpy...

Let me tell you how it will be There's one for you, nineteen for me Cos I'm the taxman, yeah, I'm the taxman Should five per cen...

I'm moving right along on these. Unfortunately, I am not hating every minute. Block A Block B Block C Block D

I finally got around to taking pictures of some of my recent sewing. The pictures are terrible, but, well, there you are. This is another ...

I know, crazy. I finally managed to take some pictures this weekend, despite the lack of sun and can show off a few things I've been wo...

My aunt Ann's funeral was yesterday. It left me with a lot of thoughts about funerals, which may coalesce into a blog post someday. Or...

Now that canning season is essentially over (I am still hoping to eek out another batch of salsa), I finally have time to sew. Sort of. I ...

I bought myself a brand new sewing machine. We're going to elope. I don't even care that it has a Project Runway logo, because it h...