The title of this post could have been, “Chicken loves vinegar.” Chicken and vinegar really do go so well together. My go-to quick dinner is boneless chicken thighs sautéed in butter and a sauce made from simply deglazing the pan with apple cider vinegar. The sauce is buttery and tangy and so, so good. So I knew chicken loved vinegar, but I didn’t really know the extend of the love affair until I made chicken adobo.

These days, it seems there are sew-alongs everywhere you look!  But I always seem to find the most interesting ones after they’ve finsihed. I’m sure I’m not the only one who can’t keep track of all the awesomeness. So I thought I’d remedy the situation with a simple newsletter: sew-along CENTRAL. Just a list of what sew-alongs are coming up for the month–garment sew-alongs, kids sew alongs, quilt alongs, bag alongs, I’m sure there are other alongs I haven’t even heard of yet!

Would you like to know about all the sew-alongs happening? Would you like them all conveniently delivered to your inbox?  I promise not to get all spammy on you. I just want to tell you about all the good things happening in the sewing world! Typically the newsletter will go out once a month. Then you will be all ready to jump into whatever sew-alongs strike your fancy! To sign up for the newsletter follow this link, or use the form in the sidebar —>

There are a bunch of sewing-for-yourself sew-alongs going on at the moment. It’s hard not to get swept up in all the bloggy excitement.

alt: part #1

Okay, so it’s been 2 months since ALT and everyone has forgotten about it by now. Still, I wanted to show you what I made for it, mostly because it was ridiculous. Thursday night at the conference, Cricut hosted a big party and everyone was instructed to wear green. This involved waaaay more shopping than I am comfortable with and lots of unnecessary clothes stress. I never did find a green dress, but I did find a nice black one at the thrift store and an amazing beaded belt at Anthropologie.

I’m so glad you guys enjoyed my last post about creativity. Now we know you and everyone around you is  creative, whether or not you define yourself by your creativity. But how do you access it? How do you turn it on? The absolutely best way to kill all creativity is say, “Be Creative!” Arg! I think I even did that in my last post, sorry. It’s so easy to do, because if you are telling someone else to be creative then you probably aren’t the one doing the actual creative work.

And being creative is work. Like work it is really hard to get started and it totally sucks sometimes. Other times it’s so awesome you can’t even stand it.