If you happen to live in the New York area and are looking for a little excitement - come on over to Tinsel Trading on Saturday, May 15th fo...

Once in a great while, I am lucky enough to get invited down to Dallas to visit Moda and see the fabric and quilt masters up close. This p...

I love thinking about France, the flea markets in France and the the bits and pieces I find myself leaving behind. Last summer when we were...

Check out our short film about the making of Treasured Notions - our new book with Chronicle - it's a peek inside of Tinsel Trading...

Which means summer is just around the corner. Which means I have three months before I will be sitting on the beach in San Sebastian. Yike...

Growing up we were told stories of leprechauns and fairies; served green eggs and ham and always enjoyed a glass of green milk on St. Patric...

Lately, I have been doing a lot of digging at my favorite downtown bead warehouse. I have been cleaning out this old shop since I was 17 - ...

I love the stories - I love the memories of the color - everyone seems to have reached back as far as they can remember - many going back to...

This month, our notion collection celebrates all shades of blue - especially the old turquoises. Our jewelry workshop this month , made up t...

My sisters, Mom and I all had a long weekend together in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. We visited SCRAP, ate at Tartine way too many ti...

Chateau Dumas: 1800-2010 by Lizzie Ezekiel The details of Chateau Dumas’ 13th century origins are a little sketchy, but we know quite a lot...

I'm getting ready to head back to St. Louis at the end of April - I know it sounds like it's years away - but to me, it's right ...

I have something for quilts. Actually, I have something for crazy quilts - those wacky looking bed covers that seem to have no pattern or ...

Our wonderful host in France, Lizzie Ezekiel, has written up the provenance of Chateau Dumas - our home for the Chateau Getaway this summe...

Donating money to Haiti right now is the best way for us each to help in our own small way. I donated to Partner's in Health, an organiz...

I saw this poster for a mourning warehouse and almost flipped - can you imagine - getting it all in one place - oh to dig in that basement f...

It's so exciting right before a new book comes out. Patiently waiting for this next book, I completely forget about the angst that went...

I am normally not a big fan of the color black. In fact, I didn't even know it was a color until my friend Megan (I think we were 5 or ...

We've gotten into the swing of things with our classes at French General - instead of Thursday nights - we've switched most classes ...

I'm not one for big New Year's Eve parties - in fact, ever since I completed my last chemo session on December 31, 1999 - I have pre...