I love this time of year for so many reasons, but mainly because we take the time to look around us and see all the things that are so...

Have you started to collect all your local maker gifts yet?? I know that the table in my sewing room is starting to pile up and I don't...

Thank you all for such a wonderful response to my first 2017 Local Maker post on Colleen at Moonfaerie Designs. I love that you all love...

One of my favorite parts of last year's holiday season was highlighting some of the amazing makers in our community that use sewing as...

As some of you may know, I have started releasing patterns of the projects we make in my kids and teen classes. The first is the free...

I love this time of year. Something about the changing weather (it does plan on changing, right?), upcoming holidays and all the...

Do you know how many amazing sewing patterns there are out there? I've been adding pattern selections to the Hartford Stitch Project...

So from the very last camps of the summer, rewinding to the very first! The last week of June I hosted a Handcrafts Camp and a Quilting...

This was far and away the most popular camp at Stitch the summer, with a very long waitlist! While this camp required some prior...

To say this summer was a whirlwind would be an understatement! We had a total of 5 weeks of camps with 7 different themes! (Plus, you...

Does my fall calendar look a little different to you? Are you looking for photos of all the projects you can make but instead are just...

Bad news: summer is almost winding down. Almost. Not yet. Good news: After school sewing classes are starting soon!! And this year I'm...

After weeks of watching me make camp samples, my 5 year old and 3 year old couldn't stand it anymore and were begging me to let them sew...

I started to compile these photos for the newsletter and was once again so blown away by what these campers created that I realized I...

With the exception of a couple of experimental projects in high school (a sweatshirt where I sewed the neckline shut), my Senior...

A video tutorial on how to assemble e-patterns (downloaded sewing patterns) from Hartford Stitch.

I had big plans and high hopes for the "12 Days of Stitchmas" but I think that it's all going to have to wrap up with the 10th day! While...

I'm kind of an ornament snob in that I (almost) exclusively put glass ornaments on my Christmas tree. My parents started a tradition of...

So, it probably goes without saying that I have an eye out for awesome baby gifts lately. Granted we're pretty flush with baby "stuff",...

One of the many things I love about owning and teaching at Hartford Stitch is all the amazing people I get to meet. This October we had...