Making It With Help

A friend took a few pictures of me wearing my new print skirt. If you're interested, you could compare the skirt on me to the skirt on a...

When I learned that my cholesterol was (really) high two years ago, I started making some changes in my diet. I have made many modifications...

Here's a hanger shot of my skirt, completed this afternoon. My photographer is at a Broadway show right now and I wanted to publish this...

I heard back again from C********. They wrote: Valued Customer: There are no local service centers in your area that does work on the mac...

I'm making progress on my skirt, at about the same pace as this easy-peasy lemon-squeezy question I've been going back and forth abo...

On June 30, I wrote: Next up will be a 5- or 7-gored skirt. I tried to make one with inseam pockets, but it was not wearable because I did...

I've been working a bit here and there on a seven-gore flared skirt. It's a pattern I've used several times, changing the number...

So, with my new mantra about failure, I'm all energized to sew again. Here's a set of three zippered cases I made last week for a fr...

First, a bit of humor on a Sunday afternoon. Here's a comment from a (not really) reader: It's a рity you don't have a donate ...

I had in mind to do this a couple of weeks ago, before Memorial Day. But I have had an opportunity to help our neighbors several times a wee...

Oh how I want to do this—sew for the body I have instead of wait til I lose the weight I gained back. I can't explain why I haven't ...

Oops, I did it again. I cut the ring finger of my right hand while cutting cauliflower, so off to Immediate Care I went. Didn't I do pra...

Maxwell was born in Hickory, North Carolina, on March 17, 2000, which means that he was 14 years old yesterday. He is a British Shorthair, a...

It's been a bit of a wild ride, interiorly speaking, and now that I'm posting again, and it's still January, I thought I'd s...

Inspired by seeing the cute green button over at the right, which I've seen on several sewing friends' blogs, I've decided to jo...

UPDATE Wednesday, October 16: Today is the last day that I am offering matching funds. So far, $375 has been raised, and with my matching f...

When last we talked, I showed you the remaining fabric from the 3.5 yards of "autumn leaves" quilting cotton fabric, which I'v...

Good morning! Here's the result (of using random.org, which generates random numbers from the range you submit) for my orange print fat ...

A couple of years ago, I hosted a little Craft Day for a friend, her two daughters, and their four little children. I'm not really used ...