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(scroll to the bottom to enter to win!) Hey everyone! I’m back again on the blog with another Pattern Designer celebration! Don’t you love a good celebration?! As you can see, there is a great giveaway – daily as well as a grand prize so you’ll want to check back with Itch to Stitch* every day…
The sewing blogosphere is such a fun community to be a part of and I’ve so enjoyed making new friends and getting to know some new independent PDF pattern designers over the last year. One of them is Kimberly at Straight Stitch Designs!* Kimberly is the designer of the Bellevue Top & Ballard Top, which I’ve helped in…
It’s back to school time and today we’re entering our 4th week of 2nd grade and Pre-K! It has been quite an adjustment for me! Every year I forget how big of a step up it is between the previous grade and the new grade. Every. Year. But I think we’ve fallen into a good groove….
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…
Hey Friends! It’s Monday again and I can’t wait to show you one of my favorite projects of recent! But first, I want to make sure you’ve checked out the Ultimate DIY Bundle* – over 76 eBooks and eCourses covering topics like Crafty Business, Photography, Digital Scrapbooking, Holiday Crafting, Home & Garden, Home Decor, Art Journaling,…
Merry Christmas! I hope you enjoyed your time with Family & Friends – we’ve had a full week of celebrations! A couple months back, Annastasia, the designer at My Treasured Heirlooms, announced she was in the process of updating her Sweet Innocence Dress and she was looking for a few seamstresses to sew it up and help…
Hey all – I hope you had a great day yesterday with family & friends and that the joy and gratitude remain throughout the season! I wanted to let you know about a sale I’m running today through midnight (PST) Cyber Monday in BOTH my shops! So head on over to www.jaimesews.etsy.com or www.jjssupply.etsy.com and…
In Central CA, it’s not uncommon for October and November to stride by without so much as a hint of fall – you know, cloudy days, rain, cold…? It’s been known to be 75 degrees and sunny on Thanksgiving! But my facebook feed was full of local friends gleefully welcoming the storm we had Friday…
I have been working on Halloween Costumes all month and was so excited to finish this past Friday, just in time for our local Boo at the Zoo. This year my son broke my sewing heart when he asked for a store-bought costume instead of a handmade costume like we always do. To his credit, he…
For those who celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful Easter weekend! As a little girl I always got a new spring dress to wear on Easter Sunday and it’s a tradition I just can’t shake. The past few years, I haven’t been able to get a new outfit for Easter for whatever reason, but this…