Friends, I’m delighted to share that my Book Cover Embroidery Sampler is now available in the online shop AND to help me celebrate, my friends at Spoonflower have just posted my accompanying Embroidered Typography tutorial on their blog! The sampler features six photographs of vintage book covers beautifully printed on a generous fat quarter (18×22”) …
Incorporate the thoughtfulness of family and friends into your seasonal decor with a cut-and-sew Holiday Card Display! This festive fat-quarter project only requires simple straight line stitching to create an attractive wall organizer. Featuring Spoonflower’s lightweight cotton twill fabric and small wooden clips to secure your cards and photos, this DIY comes together quickly and …
My friends, I’m working hard to will some positivity into being right now. This month, March 2021, marks the one year anniversary of the global Covid-19 pandemic. It’s been a year of considerable loss for so many and even with the bright light of vaccines at the end of the tunnel I find myself needing …
Hello friends! I was delighted to create a tutorial as part of the #MakingItAtHome Challenge! During the last five weeks of Covid-19 quarantine, our friends Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman have hosted themed challenges, presenting makers across the country an opportunity to win a $1,000. donation to their local food bank courtesy of NBC. For …
Friends! Consider this a friendly PSA – Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13, 2018! This year my incredibly talented friend Beth, of the popular YouTube channel Entertaining with Beth, invited me into her kitchen to create something lovely for your mom – delicious lemon thyme cookies which we’ve beautifully packaged for gift giving. You’ll find …
In my February 2018 Pop-Up Shop I’ve included a new product – the Blackberry Heart: Pincushion Project. It’s essentially a scaled down version of the Blackberry Heart: Anatomical Embroidery Sampler that I’ve paired with a beautiful night sky blue velvet backing for you to create a pincushion or sachet. This simple stitch, sew and stuff …
I was thrilled to work with my friends at CreativeLive again this summer, developing and shooting new long format video classes for you! Unlike my Paper Crafting: Skills and Technique class that was presented over the course of two days in the CreativeLive studios, these three new classes were filmed on location in the downtown …
I am thrilled to be working with Creative Live to bring you Paper Crafting: Skills and Techniques – a two day workshop packed with projects that celebrate this versatile material. One of the great how-to’s we’ll tackle is rubber stamp carving – similar to creating woodcuts or linocuts but with much more forgiving materials that …