Written Erin on October 25, 2011 in Uncategorized | No comments yet
You probably already know that I have a thing for antique thread cabinets. Well, I was hanging out in Aurora yesterday and I found a really beautiful antique thread cabinet in one of the town’s many antique shops.  I want to share it with you! Here’s me and the box: Here’s just the box: I have never heard of the Richardson Silk Company but my, their box is...
Written Erin on October 20, 2011 in Quilting | 1 Comment
Oh yes I did…. I finally cut into my Gone With the Wind novelty fabric!   After flying out to CO to shoot my Sew it All TV episode, I was in desperate need of some sewing therapy.  I wanted to do something fun, silly and just for me. I spent months agonizing over what to do with this impulse buy fabric.  I think I hit the nail on the head with this one.  I didn’t...
Written Erin on June 24, 2011 in Quilting | 2 Comments
Look at what came in the mail yesterday! It’s the August 2011 issue of Quilt Life, which has my article about the Portland Modern Quilt Guild in it!!!  Yay!  Thanks to all the lovely folks I interviewed – the pleasure was all mine. =) I really just wrote the article as a nice long string of quotes based on the interviews I conducted because I LOVED what you all had to say about...
Written Erin on June 09, 2011 in Sewing Patterns | No comments yet
This ad from my copy of Good Housekeeping Needlecraft Fall-Winter 1968-9 pretty accurately sums up what I was up to yesterday. Just sub the boy for a lionshead rabbit and the girl for my little chihuahua….and shave about 25 pounds and a bit of bone structure off of mama. While I was busy with laundry, I discovered that in addition to my Biker Wrap skirt pattern, two new patterns of mine...
Written Erin on April 28, 2011 in Sewing Patterns | 6 Comments
Don’t think I didn’t notice how all of you commenters in the What a Novel Idea! giveaway totally flipped out over how awesome my Gone With the Wind fabric is!! I really do love the idea of using the Doggie Adoration quilt in Pat’s book for it, even though some of you hated that idea.  (Win some, you lose some, right?) True to my Scorpio sun, I jumped on Google to do some...
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