January 2018

Hello from Day 23. My 2018 commitment to daily practice has revealed a few things: I have consistently put myself at the bottom of the list for so long that I think it became a habit. Yep, I am working to break that habit. Keeping my promises to myself is…

How have I sewed this long and never used a walking foot? It is my new favorite thing. It is genius: So what exactly is a walking foot? It’s a foot attachment for your sewing machine that has a set of grippy feed dogs on it, so that it grips the…

My 2018 New Year’s Resolutions were completely different than anything I’ve done before. Usually I either A) Come up with an entire novella, divided into subject areas, where I need massive overhauls or B) I have a single, vague theme for the whole year (“Be happier.”) This year I shook…

I found this on Twitter last night and it cracked me up. Also, IT IS SO TRUE. The credit on the image is to someone who just inventoried my yarn closet, apparently …. who are you, JAMills? Are you in my house right now looking in that bin of embarrassing…

Bob, pictured above, is cat planking. In my list of Daily Goals for 2018, you may have noticed the very detailed bullet point about planks. Up until yesterday morning I did not even know what a plank was or why you would do such a thing. I am still not…

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s 2018, and I did not wake up taller or skinnier and no one magically cleaned the house while I slept off the champagne so I guess it is up to me to make it happen. And so I did the one thing I know makes everything…