Welcome to the last post of 2009! It's been a year of change for ZenSewing.com and our new home on Typepad. To summarize 2009: I've ...

My daughter has a friend who asked me to help her make a jellyfish costume for Halloween. Well, that never worked out and she made it hersel...

It's about time to set sewing aside for holiday stuff. The Christmas tree needs decoration, the cookies need to be made, the house needs...

Ah, Christmas stockings. Can you ever make enough? I finished three more which I made out of neckties. Wow, that stuff is hard to sew. The ...

I've been sewing a lot lately out of my stash. I'm trying to use what I have rather than purchase more, and am having some success w...

I made a few Christmas stockings this week. I used the same principles that I always use - strip quilting onto a backing with batti...

I spent an hour today gathering a huge stack of old denim (legs, pockets, etc., that had already been dissected). While I was on vacation, I...