I joked to my friend Steph last night (after revealing that I planned to sew a few coasters) that I’m creating items for my hope chest. It seems only appropriate that I think about hope chests – September and October are big months in San Francisco for weddings, and I’ve spent the last three weekends […]

You may have noticed that when I discover I like making a certain item, I tend to make variations of that same item over and over again (for example, bird mobiles, handkerchiefs, totebags, iPhone covers). I eventually get tired of the item – or else run out of a particular fabric – and move on

This dishtowel’s more for show than for use – at least, that’s how my mom, the recipient of this dishtowel – will see it. Perhaps I should call it a tea towel. She can use it the one time per year when she serves tea to her neighbors, the Episcopalian priest and his wife. Actually,

One can really never have too many cloth cocktail napkins. Guests come over, use a napkin, put it down, can’t remember where they put their napkin, then take another one (which is the same reason one can never have too many drinking glasses). I made a few cocktail napkins using leftover Amy Butler fabric for