Happy Friday, everyone! There is so much going on over here that I haven’t had time to blog, but before the month is over I want to make sure you all know that my sewing room is being featured on the Pink Chalk Fabrics blog. Kathy from Pink Chalk is featuring different sewist each day and showing off their creative space. You can find my feature here, and the post explaining the giveaway here. Pink Chalk Fabrics is giving away 50 $20 gift certificates this month, so you can comment on each Where I Sew post, increasing your chances to win! Thank you so much to Kathy for putting this together. It’s really been a lot of fun!

I actually took many more pictures of my room than that one (those of you who know me are saying, “Of course she did!”) and I will post soon about some of the more specific details in my room, including a full review of my Bernina 750QE. It’s taken me a few months to work the kinks out and I feel like I’m able to give a real review now. You may also notice the post below talks about my $150 photo studio. Is there anything else you’d specifically like to know about? I got a few emails about my iron but I’m still pretty loyal to the Oliso, which I’ve talked about before. The most common question has been where can people buy my fabrics, but the answer is that most of them are out of print. Fabric cycles like fashion, so it takes years to build a good stash. :)

 I’ve also received my new logo! You’ll see it incorporated into new patterns and eventually into the old ones as I have time to go back and revise them. This website and header will remain for now, as a brand new site with a fancier shopping cart and affiliate capabilities(!!!) waits for me on a beta server. I’m so excited to share it with you! I also had my adorable cousin Sarah take some headshots-that-are-not-selfies. She’s pretty amazing!

The Makeup Bag Pattern is coming along, or as my friend Shannon named it: Make Me Up Before You Go-Go. Yep, silly names from now on, I think? We can only have so many combinations of zip and hip before you all hate me. I’m too goofy to start naming bags after people or cities or flowers. I got more than half of it finished last weekend before I had to put it on hold because the deadline of a super fun project got bumped up.

If you follow me on Twitter or Instagram, it’s not really a secret I’m going to be writing some tutorials for Pellon Projects in the coming months, and I think we will all have a lot of fun with it. The first one is turned in and so I’m back to the writing the Makeup Bag pattern again now. Once I get it to testers, hopefully by Monday, I’ll ask them to try to finish it within a week or so and then get it all packaged up for sale. Early next week I’ll post a giveaway for the new pattern in anticipation of its release, so check back for that! And I’ll let you know when the Pellon Projects get posted as well.

So we have a new logo, new website, affiliates, new patterns and new tutorials coming your way this fall! So exciting! Also, since the Makeup Bag will be my 10th PDF pattern, it might be really fun to celebrate with a blog hop of some sort. I will keep you all posted!

Have a fantastic weekend! Let me know what you’re sewing by commenting here or over on the Facebook page!