By My Own Hand

Original post:  A mystery in a plastic bag I have been in correspondence with a descendant of the lady who made these things. They have be...

Today was a glorious day of recycling and thrift shopping. I rescued some vintage sewing machine ephemera, a fantastic 1930's cookbook c...

An updated version of this post is here on my house blog! Please go look, there's lots of news! It's been 4 years of near-tota...

The pattern I've been working on for over a year , a screen-accurate copy of the red shawl worn by Saffron in Our Mrs Reynolds, is nea...

These are what we call "Pinwheel Apples" around here. They are, essentially, sliced apples reassembled using peanut butter as glu...

...was that I was doing a site design. This one:   Heaven's Pavement is a promotional web site for the book of the same title. I co...

Exactly what it says! Check the widget in the sidebar for the current list of available handouts.

Author's note: The   Frankenblogging   feature is a republication of older content from my former personal   webpage , with some annotat...

So, today I am putting out a call for questions regarding bliauts, handout requests (a few are available online, but I have to mail or files...

Author's note: The Frankenblogging feature is a republication of older content from my former personal webpage, with some annotations. I...