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I made this block (you can see all the sides in this little video) because I was getting sick of nagging and sick of saying the same thing every day to my children. It's rainy today, which is great because I really need to sew on costumes and staying inside and listening to audio books feels so much better when the weather is bad. I am facing Waltz of the Flowers again (The Nutcracker) for costumes, this will be my 3rd time making Flowers, all for different studios, using existing bits and pieces and adding. I have booked our lodgings and train between the 2 cities, so now that I know exactly where we are staying we can start spending our hours on google maps walking around and finding all these places you have suggested.

We are in the beginning of spring break and I have a lot of sewing to do getting ready for spring shows. I plan to put them mostly on the mantel, to avoid the cats thinking it's a toilet, which is what happened last time we got house plants. After listening to a large batch of podcasts (mostly catching up on This American Life) Delia and I are planning a trip to London and Paris this summer, so I am starting to make lists and researching shops, fabric stores, museums, cool cafes and all that.

I stitched this a couple of years ago for a book I contributed to, Embroider your Life, and I found it tucked away in my desk recently. It's stitched on a linen base and is a slipcover for a hardback sketchbook. It's great—dated, awesome, and also goofy because the narrator does the women's voices too, but in a weird falsetto which is really amusing to me. but I know this book played a big part in forming my brother's personality and life view.

These beautiful fabrics are from Bolt, which recently moved and expanded. They have such a good selection of fabrics and trims I got a little nutty