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This Christmas has been a busy one! I wanted to make something for my partner, and asked what he might want (there was no point in trying to make it a surprise if I was going to need to take measurements and do fittings.) With…

For Christmas this year, my partner and I are hosting his family at our new place. To avoid the stress of each person having to get an individual gift for every other person, his family does a Yankee Swap (not to be confused with White…

Imagine it is the year 1898 and you have just invested a considerable amount of money into building a new passenger train, plus several new stations along The Great Northern Railway, the northernmost transcontinental railroad in the United States, which runs from Saint Paul, MN…

For this shirt, I was first inspired by a portrait of Elizabeth I that I came across in the chapter on blackwork in The Royal School of Needlework's "Book of Embroidery." In the portrait, she has gorgeous sleeves covered in floral blackwork embroidery. I loved…

I did it! I've finished the Over the Garden Pillows I set out to make almost two years ago. You know those projects that linger—unfinished—in your closet for years? This was one of those. The way these came out would make my little 12-year-old self…