On Pins and Needles: A Blog about Sewing
Memory is an Elephant
Memory is an elephant. And sometimes it's a bear. On laundry days, as I work my way through my kids' closets, I find outgrown shirts, shorts, and dresses that are...
Memory is an Elephant
Memory is an elephant. And sometimes it's a bear. On laundry days, as I work my way through my kids' closets, I find outgrown shirts, shorts, and dresses that are...
Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Maintenance
When I was 19, I read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I took the book, very literally, to be about motorcycle maintenance. As soon as I'd...
Zen and the Art of Sewing Machine Maintenance
When I was 19, I read Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I took the book, very literally, to be about motorcycle maintenance. As soon as I'd...
Doxie & Doxie Wedding Today!
If you have never attended a dachshund wedding, you are not going to the right sewing camps. Okay. Actually. Stuffed animals don't always get married at Sew My Goodness Camps. In...
Doxie & Doxie Wedding Today!
If you have never attended a dachshund wedding, you are not going to the right sewing camps. Okay. Actually. Stuffed animals don't always get married at Sew My Goodness Camps. In...
Sewcially Awkward
Last year I tried to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. I made it just far enough in to learn that Tolstoy's feminine ideal, the smoke show of the party scene,...
Sewcially Awkward
Last year I tried to read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. I made it just far enough in to learn that Tolstoy's feminine ideal, the smoke show of the party scene,...
But How Will Sewing Camp Get My Kid Into M.I.T.?
Fifteen years ago, before my kids were born, I knew exactly which colleges they should consider and which career paths would be most likely to make them successful adults. When...
But How Will Sewing Camp Get My Kid Into M.I.T.?
Fifteen years ago, before my kids were born, I knew exactly which colleges they should consider and which career paths would be most likely to make them successful adults. When...
Sewing Is Connection
In the nearly 20 years I worked as a psychotherapist, facilitating group and individual therapy with kids and young adults, I learned that the solution was almost always in connection...
Sewing Is Connection
In the nearly 20 years I worked as a psychotherapist, facilitating group and individual therapy with kids and young adults, I learned that the solution was almost always in connection...