I have not done an “In the Studio” post for a long time! For this year, I would like to do a post every month to show you what’s going on behind the scenes in both my business and my life…. so that is one of my goals for 2019!! This is January’s post- hopefully this “resolution” won’t flop come February!!

Another 2019 goal- more “me” time! I was talking with designer friend Pat Sloan the other day, and we were talking about how we work too much- we made a pact for 2019 to do at least one fun, non-work related thing each week. We will check in with each other at the end of each week! I got my nails done in this gorgeous red, and even splurged and spent the extra $5 to get a snowflake design:

We can’t have a blog post about the studio-goings-on without a photo of Alfie!! Here he is relaxing in a basket that I had on the floor with a project in process- it had piles of fabric, paper with notes on it, and some pattern pieces- the perfect spot for lounging, lol.

If you’re interested, I did a video a few months ago, talking about how I use baskets like this to organize my projects as I’m working on them:

I worked on some applique and embroidery for The Art of Home Club’s January project. For the applique, I used gray thread for everything- I like how it looks, plus I was kind of in a hurry and when you use all one color thread, it saves you a lot of time, not having to switch your thread colors in your machine:

I also tried doing my embroidery as redwork, same idea. By using just one color of thread, you can go much faster. I had some wool thread in my drawer that I thought I’d try… Great textures, but I’m trying to decide how much I mind all of those little “fuzzies” that show up on my white fabric: (more…)