Hi! I'm Lauren: college-educated mom to Harper (and soon-to-be Ezra!) who gave up career life to sew, knit, sing nursery rhymes and watch Yo Gabba Gabba a dozen times a day. Most days, I love it. My husband Scott and I live with our kid(s) and two insanely dumb cats in Salt Lake City, Utah. Linkin’ Up
Sewing
I always get so excited about sewalongs…but I rarely seem to get my act together and make something. I’m hoping to get better about this, and I decided to start with Rae’s Spring Top Sewalong. I am (mostly) pleased with the results of my project! I am not even going to begin to write a [...]
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of sewing done. Harper has reached this glorious age where she likes doing things on her own – playing with her babies, running around in circles, watching a show or climbing to dangerous heights on unstable furniture. She also loves creating artwork… Here are just a couple of things [...]
I haven’t sewn in forever. Forever in my world is, you know, a few months. Recently, however, I discovered Kids’ Clothes Week Challenge on elsiemarley. I was kind of bummed at first because I didn’t find out about it until day 5. But look! I was able to whip something out at the absolute last [...]
Pajama pants. Can I get an amen from you other stay-at-home mamas? I mean, let’s be honest. How many of you wear them every day until…oh…the hour before the husband come home? Me! Me! So, they should definitely be cute. So cute that you could go to the grocery store in them. I mean, you [...]
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working with luvinthemommyhood to grade the Sweetheart Dress pattern seen here. Shannon has had the tutorial up for a while, but she will soon be rolling out an actual pattern for those less inclined to work from scratch. As part of the process of [...]
Betts, meet everyone. Everyone, meet Betts. She’s my brand-new-to-me beauty of a sewing machine – the Singer Touch & Sew Deluxe Model 750. This is the stuff my mom’s teenage dreams were made of. As told by her, “There were two places I went every day in 1970 when this machine came out… The Honda [...]