I finished the second bird from Fa La La La Felt yesterday: It took so long because I did more embroidery for the wing than the pattern ca...

While going through magazine patterns looking for the Hawai'ian applique, I realized I have quite a few heart patterns. I thought it mi...

The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas .

I'm on a roll! January can be a dreary month, especially when you get hit by snowstorm after snowstorm after snowstorm, so I always like...

I have a minor little obsession with fiction that has a "craft" theme of some kind, so of course I have read Jennifer Chiaverini...

The Solitudes , part one of Crowley's Aegypt cycle, comes highly recommended. I learned about it from Dirda's book chat, where he ...

All throughout December I thought about, and even planned, squares to stitch, yet I never quite managed to pick up the fabric. Today I fina...