Journal

A record of my journey from sewing to designing—and the discoveries that are shaping my work along the way.

What I’m Paying Attention To

Why I choose a particular shape

What I notice in a historical garment

How fabric changes an idea

How I translate an idea into a pattern

  • Selected for Photo of the Day on AMPt

    The AMPt (the Advanced Mobile Photography team) selected my photo, Standing the Tests of Time,  for Photo of the Day last week and featured it on their…

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  • 2013 in Review

    Thank you for reading my blog this year. The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt:…

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  • The Beauty of Different

    A belated Merry Christmas to you! I hope it was everything you hoped for and more. I found a wonderful quote in one of…

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  • Full Life in the Emptiest of Places

    Sometimes you shoot an image and you work on it and you bring it to some wordless place of perfection and though you know,…

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  • Self-Compassion

    I hardly know where to begin. I discovered the self-compassion work of Dr. Kristin Neff through Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection e-course. Dr. Neff has…

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  • A Zentangled Journey

    Checking out the social streams of my amazing classmates in Brené Brown’s The Gifts of Imperfection 6-week e-course, I found some impressive drawings by @artbreaking…

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