If you have watched me shopping at a thrift store the past months, you may have seen me looking through the extra large skirts. I was searc...

My daughter said that if she had known that she'd be stuck at home for weeks, she would have stocked up on fabric to sew some dresse...

For years I have been asked how to make a cape dress. I wrote a series on sewing cape dresses but continue to be asked where to find a good...

Do any of you sew your own slips? Do you have a good source for slip fabric? Can you buy it online somewhere? I need some new half slips f...

Last fall I told you about my new favorite dress patterns for girls - Sew Basic Dresses patterns. Since then I've used those patterns m...

Cutting the fabric for a dress has always been my least favorite part of sewing. When I make a dress for my girls I first have to find my p...

My eleven-year-old daughter has been wanting to learn to machine sew. I've been dragging my feet. I can still remember the trials I pu...

My ten-year-old enjoys hand sewing but I am running out of ideas for her. She has done quite a bit of embroidery - but you don't ne...

I'd never pick winter as my favorite season. I love the outdoors, the garden, and the sunshine. But there is something special about bei...

I always consider cutting out the dress pieces as the worse part. After it is cut out, all the decision making of what size, style is done. ...

I'm one of those talk-with-their-hands people. I'm not sure how to describe a project with only words and few photos. But I'll d...

I love reader's questions. But one question that I get frequently, I never feel that I adequately answer. I finally decided I'd have...

This winter I wanted to teach my daughter how to use a sewing machine. I thought that a quilt would be the perfect project, especially since...

This week a group of friends got together for a pillowcase dress party. With a little ribbon and binding, a pillow case was turned into a...