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Hi All & Happy Friday! I’m so excited to be a part of the Gracious Threads Baby Shower today! I finally got my act together and wrote up the Beginner’s Quilt Pattern into a FREE downloadable PDF with a Quilting 101 section, photos to illustrate steps and instructions for sandwiching, turning & tying! There is…
Happy Memorial Day! If you’re in the U.S., today we celebrate those who gave their lives for our freedom. Grateful doesn’t even begin to describe it – what an amazing sacrifice. Today Dandelions n’ Dungarees is releasing their Simply Sweats and Shorts pattern! I had this Girl Charlee sweatshirt knit sitting in my stash…
There is something wonderful about sewing for another seamstress. There’s such a joyful delight at the thing made and great appreciation for being the recipient. As people who sew for others, putting our heart and soul into the making, it is rare we receive something handmade ourselves, so props to whoever came up with this…
If you’ve been reading my blog for any amount of time, you know how much I love PDF Patterns. Such instant gratification! Such creativity all at the click of a button! With all the independent pattern designers popping up, women like you and me using their gifts to create lovely designs for us to sew up,…
If you have not participated in a swap, you are really missing out! Over the holidays I did a mini-quilt swap with my local MQG. It was SO much fun that when I started seeing swap signups all over my instagram feed, I instantly signed up for two without a thought! I was assigned #RainbowTeamOrange and…
Hey everyone! Just poppin’ in for a quick Saturday Post to let you know my URL has changed! I was contacted a few months ago by someone interested in purchasing my old domain. Late last week that domain went into escrow and I switched my whole site over to www.madebyjaime.com! If you are interested in how the…
Back in the end of February, I posted this to Facebook: When I posted this, everything was still developing – but as we chatted and collaborated, it was decided to launch a new website for these purposes, called The Pattern Exam. What is The Pattern Exam? Glad you asked! What is The Pattern Exam? The…
Today is the day – in just a little while, Crafters For Courage will start their Instagram Sale of over 100 donated handmade items! Have you heard of Crafters for Courage or Courage Worldwide? Courage Worldwide seeks to provide a home for children rescued from sex trafficking, a safe place for them to start on…
I have had some kind of sewing business off and on since 2008. I always struggled to understand the financial side of business, but I dutifully kept my receipts and income records and gave them to whomever did our taxes each year. I took a few years off the business and when I started it up again…
Each year my kids choose a birthday theme and I do my best to search pinterest, sew or otherwise gather supplies to make it come to life. A few years back we did a Super Heroes party. Other years it’s been Ninjas, Star Wars, Curious George and Thomas the Train (apparently I didn’t blog those). Well my…