This is the time of year when I want to sew ALL the pajamas!  Flannel and fleece are both on sale and our family has already seen the first snow flurries of the season outside our windows.  I know other people are also thinking about sewing up Christmas pajamas for their families, and I got thinking 'Hey, wouldn't it be great if someone made a huge list of PJ patterns so people could browse through to find the perfect one?'  Then I realized... I'm someone!  I already had a pretty big list of pattern options I liked for my own family, all I needed to do was organize it and find more.  So... the pajama pattern hunt began...

My list grew from big... to huge... to EPIC!  In this post, you will find over 80 patterns for the whole family in every style and fabric you could hope for!  Pajama party time!

~~~ Updated September 22, 2020, with MORE PJs patterns released within the last year! ~~~

One of the things I enjoy about designing is the ability to take inspiration from something you see and figure out a way to use it for your own vision of a pattern.  I was recently inspired to use color-blocking and buttons to create a new Muskoka tunic.  I wanted to give you a closer look and share some tips on how you might do something similar.

Sometimes a quick craft is just the thing to get you in a festive mood.  I wanted to add something new to our Christmas tree this year, and stumbled across a few different ideas for using cinnamon sticks (of which I have a lot) to make Christmas ornaments.  While my first few attempts resulted in utter failure (apparently I am not particularly good at cutting cinnamon sticks without breaking them... nor at making a star that looks star-shaped), I finally found a triangle ornament by Tag & Tibby that I thought was simple and charming. 

As soon as I glued my first cinnamon sticks into the triangle shape... my eye fell onto the remnants of my failed attempts to cut cinnamon sticks into tiers, and INSPIRATION struck!  All my triangle needed was a "trunk", and it was a perfect Christmas tree.

Now that winter has finally passed, there are two things competing for my attention: the house is begging for a deep Spring cleaning... but the sun is shining and I just want to be outside listening to the birds chirping and the bees buzzing!  While this may not officially qualify as "spring cleaning", the project I'm sharing with you today is a pretty neat way to use up some fabric scraps (and I say that anything that shrinks the overflowing scrap bin should be considered cleaning!)  And though it doesn't really have anything to do with enjoying the seasonal outdoors, I say it still counts as being in touch with the nature of Spring because for this project you need 100% natural beeswax!  

I love finding a craft that is fun for both myself and my kids to do!  It's a definite bonus when it is quick, inexpensive, beautiful.  A few weeks ago, I was on the lookout for something simple (but pretty) to do with a group of mom friends at church, and I found this idea for making sun catchers out of really easy-to-find materials.  I thought they looked like they would be worth a try, and it turned out to be a lot of fun!