Alice's House

Some days milestones in our life become millstones dragging us down. I celebrated my sixtieth birthday a couple of weeks ago which is a gr...

Its that time of the month when the Fat Quarter Club meets to see what everyone has done with the challenge distributed the previous month. ...

The other day I was browsing the local fabric store's clearance section looking for dress fabric.  I am taking a class in dressmking and...

One of the fabulous women who works on a lot of charity projects has been nicknamed Good Betty.  She is God Betty for many reasons but one i...

I have often wondered how I have built my stash of fabrics. Sometimes its because something just screams to be purchased. Sometimes I buy so...

Those of us who sew have a constant battle on our hands - how to deal with our fabric leftovers. After buying and storing precious yardage ...

I took one of the sashiko experiments and made it into a book cover for my Sony e-book. Although the reader has a very nice leather cover I ...

At the Kingwood group of the Houston ASG Chapter, I had the priviledge to do some hands-on work with one of our members on machine wrapped c...

I promised last week that I would put my stash fabric on a crash diet with the intent to donate the discarded weight to a friend to take to ...

A couple of months ago I ran across the Craft Leftovers blog ( http://craftleftovers.blogspot.com/ ) by Kristen Roach. Since then I have rec...

Today, at the Sew Fitting neighborhood group of the Houston ASG Chapter, I was on the agenda to do a brief program on Crazy Quilting. I was ...

Actually this post is a cheat. I bought Six Fat Quarters in a beautiful pattern designed by Anna Griffin and I couldn't find any space i...

Recently I have been embarrassed by the size of my fabric stash. I seem to have a huge amount of fabric, each scrap of which I feel I will b...

When I got the new sewing machine I knew I would have a lot of samples/experiments to contend with. Very organized people will take their em...

Buy this book. It is not so much that the author is presenting anything new it is just that she brings so many things together that I had no...