Pleasant View Schoolhouse

A few weeks ago a tiny, teenincey (as we say in the South) kitten showed up on the back porch. He was almost too small to eat crunchy ca...

I found a cashmere coat at the thrift store in the perfect color, if you were wanting to make a bear for a baby, which I was. In...

Miss Manners hard at work getting out the holiday edition of her column, addressing all her readers' questions about how much they c...

Clara polished the silver. Bella picked up the forgotten groceries. I made the cranberry sauce and cornbread for the dressing.  ...

Sunday afternoon was perfect for a hike. Daisy didn't want to drive anywhere though, so we did what we should do more often--we wal...

I am not joking when I say I am cranking through my stash. These two are the first of many quilting projects that will go in the shop ....

When I get time to sew these days, I'm still busting away at my stash. This cape used up two lengths of vintage wool--navy for the ...

Daisy has just branched out to true dairy goats, and now has a herd of one Saanen doe. Georgiana has never been bred, but that will hap...

Strictly speaking, when these pictures were taken, baby August was still in the hospital. But he is at the Stone House now, thri...

I thought you might like to see the difference between half-way done and all the way done. The right half of the canvas was quite em...

I don't know how to tat, but Clara has taught herself. She's done shuttle tatting and needle tatting (like this) which she s...

Today was one of those too-warm and too-waspy days that come right before the weather changes. Felix was over part of the day so...

Usually Clara helps me with my piecing projects--we do assembly line stitching, pressing, and cutting to knock these log cabins out. La...

When Felix and Molly bought their house in June, the first thing Felix did was start to build some hugels. What was he even doing?  ...

Daisy was headed to Laney's birthday sleepover this afternoon. It was "no gifts," but Laney loves fruit, and her mother s...

Another one pieced and waiting for a cozy winter of hand-quilting. 

Not done yet, but a good start tonight. Working on black canvas again--I like it!