Spring! It’s everywhere I go, filling me with inspiration to create in it’s image;  things that are flowery & light as the breeze spreading its signature scent. Pulling weeds in my garden under the appletree, I was captivated by the subtle, sweetly-spiced scent of appleblossoms~ how to express that in a creation? Pascal (my dog,)  [...]

I’ve just finished this dress that I call “Winter”; my third in a series of four long- sleeved dresses that I wanted to add to my store.  My goal is to have at least one long-sleeved dress in each size available. I just finished cutting out my fourth one,  a size 4, so hopefully before [...]

My third  series of notecards, As Scene by Rabbit Whiskers, consists of notecards with photographs of various scenes that I have found to be pretty, interesting, or both; usually things that I see while on a walk with Pascal. Many of my photos come from my favorite “haunt,” Heather Farms. This is a huge open [...]

I know. It’s been way too long since I’ve updated my blog. I have been working on this dress called, A Few of My Favorite Things and I’ve just finished it. Making this dress has been the strangest experience! I felt as if a magic spell had been cast over me and I wasn’t able [...]

This photo looks so beautiful and peaceful~ And it truly was that morning, however one essential element to this scene is missing in the photo; and it was the  element most dominant to the scene. Because of its nature, you can’t see it here. The clouds, the trees, the grasses, even the tiniest mustard flowers, [...]

I was saving my second new smocking idea to write about in this post, and it’s  funny, because in response to my last post,  Julie wrote and suggested that I might want to try smocking throw pillows. She had seen some in magazines and thought they looked good. Thank-you,  Julie!  I very much agree with [...]

I took a brief respite from sewing to work on the baby blanket that I started knitting for my grandson a year ago. I was starting to worry that if I didn’t concentrate on getting it finished, he’d be ready for college and I’d still be working on it, so I’m  pleased to have finished [...]

You may have noticed how “in” smocking is right now. Woman’s fashions are featuring smocking in dresses, blouses, tunics, sweaters, and even jackets. With children’s fashion running parallel to adults, this winter it will be stylish as well as comfortable and warm for your child to wear her smocked dress, even in areas where the [...]

Sunshine for hours, a meadow of flowers! I just began work on a pretty, violet-blue fabric strewn with flowers of purple, yellow, blue and pink; reminiscent of a spring meadow. As I create the rows of smocking I’m busy thinking about what I might embroider into this meadow- perhaps a lamb, a bird, a tree-? [...]