I spent a few days this week “fun sewing.”  The Bernina 750 that I ordered back in October finally arrived, so I jumped right in and made a few things to get a feel for it. Sewing is always fun for me, but stopping to take pictures for patterns or tutorials can get tedious (and so more »

Every time I click over to the Dog Under My Desk Flickr group I find more cool stuff you guys are making! I know everyone loves Instagram, but sometimes even if you tag me I might not see it, especially when IG moves so quickly. It seems it’s very much like Twitter in that once more »

A few of you may have noticed already – I added a Reviews section to each PDF Pattern page! I love all of the comments that you leave on my tutorials and I love getting Etsy feedback and all of the emails that you send me about my patterns! So, I’ve been wanting to add more »

Back in December, I hit 1000 Facebook followers (WOOHOO!) and I asked what everyone wanted to celebrate and of course the answer was “PATTERN SALE!” LOL. But then we all got busy with holidays and Michelle already had one of my patterns on sale and then I had to work on taxes and everything was more »

Welcome 2013! What fun do you have in store for us? 2013 GOALS Four new patterns and four new tutorials. Tutorials are simpler, so it’s nice to alternate them between patterns. I have some ideas that might work better as tutorials than patterns. My first priority is the Mini Daytripper mods. You only need to more »