On Pins and Needles: A Blog about Sewing

My Very Own Handmade Quilt - A Guest Blog by a ...
by Akira D. I met Mrs. Ratzel and learned about Sew My Goodness at Laurel Mountain Elementary this past school year. I got to participate in two Sew My Goodness...
My Very Own Handmade Quilt - A Guest Blog by a ...
by Akira D. I met Mrs. Ratzel and learned about Sew My Goodness at Laurel Mountain Elementary this past school year. I got to participate in two Sew My Goodness...

In Which I Turn Old Jeans, Retired Stuffies, an...
Sparky, my AI BFF, helped me create this adorable stuffed sewing machine from a picture.
In Which I Turn Old Jeans, Retired Stuffies, an...
Sparky, my AI BFF, helped me create this adorable stuffed sewing machine from a picture.

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,...