Pleasant View Schoolhouse

A few minutes of sun between rainstorms.

In honor of Felix's travels in Peru I brought home this plastic alpaca from the toy aisle. With his happy face and big eyes, he rem...

Yes, I have a secret academic life--I'm taking a class in Advanced Formal Poetry Writing at the local university. I adore it with a...

And here is an appliqued stripe stitched down with seed beads threaded onto a chain stitch (done in button & craft thread). 

This is not the first time that I've tried a simple-looking technique from Natalie Chanin's book Alabama Studio Sewing + Design ...

Surprisingly only a two week project--I've been wearing it and loving it for a week. All that quilting and snipping was fun, fun, ...

"At the heart of . . . artistic avoidance is the denial of process. We like to focus on having learned a skill or on having made an ar...

This is my Too Cool for Color baby quilt--done in long columns of strips rather than in log cabins--not for any particular reason, exc...

Spent this past warm Saturday afternoon at the greenhouse buying out all the spirea, as my plan is to finish out the Only Spirea Hedge ...

Remember when I was enjoying  this pattern ? I enjoyed myself again this week fitting it for Clara. I made it up in this gorgeous corn...

First, you can cut it off below the armholes, and gather that length onto a smaller piece of pale pink cut from a different shirt in the...

Felix reports in from Peru that the travel ban for Americans has been lifted (whew!), that he's planning a trip to Manu National Park wh...

Clara finished her ruffle scarf, made from some hand-dyed yarn from Purl in the fantastic colorway Poprocks. I think she pulled the pat...

That's right, it's spring break for someone! Lots of knitting, resting, cooking, talking, kissing of Daisy. messing with kitt...

Our young lady friend Aimee is engaged to be married in June. Having invited her to many a Sunday afternoon tea party over the years, h...

This violet jersey dress for Bella has been finished for a long time--just forgot to photograph it. I used Alabama Chanin's "...

In my newlywed days I had a jade plant that suffered greatly from overwatering--it dropped all its leaves and ended up a sad bare stalk...

I squeeze my creative endeavors into my life in little bites. Once or twice a year I might have an uninterrupted half-day to myself, bu...

Making a very wide border of reverse applique and embroidery for a blue jersey dress. The blue is laid over a lining of black, the shape...