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Creative Spaces Blog Hop • Week One • Studio Clean-up

Creative Spaces Blog Hop • Week One • Studio Clean-up

Welcome to my stop during week one on the Creative Spaces Blog Hop. Each week 16 designers will be posting on their blogs with a theme or concept to guide their posts. This week: Studio Clean-up: before and after. This week’s post got a little 

Good Morning, Summer!

Good Morning, Summer!

A new American Girl Doll adventure is on its way… Doll Dress Boutique – A dress for every occasion. Happy Summer! ~Erin  

Dress Challenge Winners!

Dress Challenge Winners!

It was such a fun design challenge! Everyone’s dresses were so creative and really pretty. Thank you to all who entered–you made it a great success!! I want to share some of my favorites and of course, the winning designs. The Little Miss Storybook group: 

Quilt Market Portland

Quilt Market Portland

International Quilt Market is this week in Portland. It’s so fun having it local to me! Today the show floor opens. I’m really looking forward to seeing all the pretty fabric and clever displays! If you are attending over the weekend, be sure to stop 

Spring Design Challenge

Spring Design Challenge

It’s time for another doll dress design challenge over at the Avery Lane Sewing group on facebook. This time we are encouraging upcycling, repurposing and making something new from something old, sewing with some cute doll clothes patterns. Spring showers make some pretty flowers… Or 

Sewing Projects: UFO denial

Sewing Projects: UFO denial

Too many UFOs hanging around the sewing room? That was a problem that plagued other sewists, but I never felt like I had that problem. I even would tell others that my 16 year old had more UFOs than I did. All last year, in 

Free Craft: AG Doll Shopping Tote Bag

Free Craft: AG Doll Shopping Tote Bag

Let’s make a shopping tote bag for our 18″ American Girl dolls! The free printable template (pdf) for a plain bag can be found here. With this file you can use plain, colored, or patterned card stock. This would be a great craft for a 

Baby’s First Book of Nursery Rhymes

Baby’s First Book of Nursery Rhymes

Welcome back for the Once Upon a Rhyme blog post #2. I received these gorgeous fabrics from Riley Blake, just in time to make some handmade gifts for my sister, who is having her first baby. The collection is Once Upon a Rhyme; the very 

Once Upon a Rhyme Blog Hop

Once Upon a Rhyme Blog Hop

Welcome to my stop on the Riley Blake’s Once Upon a Rhyme Blog Hop! I was so excited to see this new collection, Once Upon a Rhyme, and the timing could not be better! Has that ever happen for you? You have a wonderful life 

Sewing, Quilting, and Creating in 2017

Sewing, Quilting, and Creating in 2017

Reflecting back on 2017…. it was a busy year. Looking back through the year in photos, it seems I accomplished more than I realized. I am so grateful for those who followed along — you all make it possible. I’m so thankful for each of