meditative stitching Simple hand stitching is an ideal activity for percolating ideas. It occupies me but doesn’t require too much brain power and lets my subconscious do its background magic.… Read More
Overdyeing, dyeing fabric that already has color or print, can transform cut up clothes and all sorts of mismatched scraps into great fabric for birds and owls and mushrooms. Let’s… Read More
The quest for the perfect organic dot fabric for toadstools is never ending, I’m always on the look out for fungal feeling dots, speckles and marks in general and I’m… Read More
Everything you need to know to make fabric mushrooms is in this sewing pattern. Two sizes are included plus it scales easily up and down – so you can make… Read More
Welcome to cozy season! Sweata weatha! The official beginning of fall (this Sunday). The seasonal shift is real with a big surge in energy and ideas. It kicked off with… Read More
We are on day 15! That finishes 3 pages and a new page starts tomorrow. You can see lot’s of pages on instagram and the group in stitch club is… Read More
Plants and patchwork make me happy, I can’t get enough of either of them. The process has an energetic phase and a meditative phase. The energetic phase is grabbing a… Read More
When I began my first 100 day stitch book last year the plan was to be purely abstract. To commit to a “yes and” improvisational process, let go of outcome,… Read More
small sewing The fish are getting stuffed with wool and dried lemon verbena from the garden. It dried really well and just a little mixed with wool adds lots of… Read More
This year we are celebrating the 16th!! anniversary of ann wood handmade with the charming, magical and imaginative work by customers and readers. I’ve added links to the maker wherever… Read More
2021 is kind of a mushy blur from here. But a couple projects stand out. If I had to pick a favorite it would be this little stove. Something about… Read More
