Letting Go Via the Four Elements
Saturday I was feeling anxious, on edge and annoyed. I was stuck on the long list of things we still need and have to do and the limited funds and time we have to do it in. I was snapping at my family and just not in a good headspace at all. My saint of a husband, he...
Tutorial: Sewing Tin Oracle
It seems like there is a form of divination for everything. There are the usual suspects: reading tea leaves (tasseomancy) and Tarot cards (cartomancy), fire gazing (pyromancy) and bird watching (augury). And there are more esoteric divination methods like...
Sew Witchy: Pitching the Book
When I decided to try to find a publisher for my book, Sew Witchy (née Sew Craft) I had a vague idea of what I was doing. A few year prior I had done a round of submissions on a fantasy novel. I knew writing a nonfiction proposal would be a...
Burlap Cross Stitched Pumpkin
I'm not ready just yet for fall. We've had a wet, hot summer and I've enjoyed it, as have the plants in the garden. But even so, I do hear the siren song of pumpkins and soup weather. So I took an afternoon to play around with an idea I've had for a while: cross...
The Witch’s Closet Sketchbook and Test Garments
I've been working on all new garments for the fourth book and I'm very pleased with how they are turning out. There is (from top to bottom): The Fairy Witch Gown, The Triangle Dress, The Tiered Skirt, The Rectangular Pinafore (seen here over the Chemise Gown), and a...
Creating Your Own Magickal Correspondences
On October 28, 2020 Sew Witchy was discussed and reviewed by RhomanysRealm on Youtube. Someone in the the comments section asked about the magickal correspondences I gave for the stitches and how someone would go about assigning correspondences to those stitches not...