Pleasant View Schoolhouse

My big handwork project this fall was a Christmas gift for Clara--this six-gore jersey dress from Alabama Studio Style . I used the Ang...

My log cabin creations from 2013:

Two weeks with some of the young adults at home? Highly educational. Lots of C.S. Lewis reading and discussion.  Two Shakespearean ...

I finished quilting and binding this lovely piece. The quilting took about three weeks, I think. It's done with a fairly stout needl...

  "And I will say to those who were not my people,  'You are my people!' And they will say...

Innocently embroidering by the fire, Clara found her lap suddenly commandeered by a very large cat. Oh well.

I've started baking from a charming cookbook called Swedish Cakes and Cookies . It was a Christmas gift from Giles to Bella last ...

 " . . . meanwhile concern [yourself] with the Present because there, and there alone, all duty, all grace, all knowledge, and all ...

No tree yet--we're waiting for Clara to get home on Friday--but the girls have hung wreaths in the windows, and we've got lilie...

This is some awesome jersey I found at the thrift store. Would you believe almost five yards? It's fine and drapey and clearly vint...

These are Daisy's thirty paper dolls. They live together in a little fabric zip bag. There are sisters and brothers, husbands and wi...

Linen, cotton, velvet, silk. The way the coals really glow when dark settles down.

I looked in some phobia directories to see if there is technically a phobia that is "the fear of running out of hand-sewing project...

Though it's not quite warm enough for this week, Daisy has this new cardigan at the ready should the sun come out in a major way. Cl...

Much of the fun of preparing for Christmas is filling too many tins with goodies to stash away in the freezer, and bring out on fancy tr...

Isn't this quilting weather? I've been curled up under "Bonfire Night" for a few days now. Only nine rows to go, the...