TTMT #586 - nmjewells - April 28, 2026 - PP Club Wall Hanging (crafty show & tell)

 

Firstly, Happy Birthday to Jennifer O (@ofenjen)! Founder of this group, enabler of craftiness, and the bestest bestie a person could have. All my love to you Jennifer!

I'm back this week with a quilt top finish that I started last year: a 37"x37" wall hanging using my patterns from the 2025 Paper Piecing Club Pattern Series. While the original plan was for a bed-sized on-point quilt, I decided I wanted this to be a wall hanging, probably for my Project Room.

I also started the bench pillow cover for my daughter using the Furruit Platter panel I got a week or so ago. It's great to be sewing again.

Love,
nmjewells

TTMT #585 - nmjewells - April 21,2026 - Sewin' and Shoppin' (Crafty Show 'n Tell)

I recorded this yesterday but never got around to editing and uploading. I really need to get back to filming a day or two early. This week I talk about taking a class to made a simple pair of pj pants (100 Acts of Sewing, Pants No. 1), and, um, buying more fabric. But it's so cute! And it has cute cats! I couldn't help myself.

Fabric I talk about in this video: Classic Movie Monsters, Furruit Platter, Kokka Fabrics

Stay Crafty Y'all,

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #584 - nmjewells - April 7, 2026 - A Bit Patchy (crafty show & tell)

 

This week I'm back in the Project Room and I've got something finished! I patched jeans that have been in my mending pile since it got too cold to wear jeans with a giant hole, lol. I'm super excited with how they turned out and excited to finally start putting this new-to-me machine through it's paces and see what it can do. The fabric I used was from my bin of cat-themed quilt fabric (yes, I have a whole container of cat-themed fabric, lol). one of the things I really wanted to do this year was use that bin of cat fabric. I do plan to design a quilt for it, but this seemed like the perfect craft for a scrap from that bin. It was really easier than I even expected it to be.

As always, stay crafty my friends,

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #583 - nmjewells - March 31, 2026 - All Tell, Mostly No Show

 

Hey y'all, it's been a minute since I made a video. I'm back this week just to remind you I exist, and I'm going to be working on getting back to posting every week. The tee I cut up can be seen on the AANMSH swag page on the Hip Stitch website. You can see it's a seriously boxy tee. So glad I don't feel like it's strangling me anymore, lol.

Stay crafty y'all.

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #582 – nmjewells – March 10, 2026 – Cats in Space (Creative Show & Tell)

 

I’m coming to you this week with a tiny bit of progress in my studio (aka project room) and a fun video made for the shop where I work featuring a new fabric collection by Robert Kaufman that arrived last week. Written by me, co-directed by my friend Elizabeth and me, and a a “pawsome” editing and effects job by Elizabeth.

Galaxy Cats

Watch Galaxy Cats on Instagram (and don’t forget to follow @hipstitchabq on IG)

Stay Crafty Y’all

Love,

@nmjewells

TTMT #581 - Feb 25, 2026

 

I really didn’t want to skip two weeks in a row, so I dragged myself into the Project Room before my grocery store trip this morning. Just a short video to talk about progress in the Project Room Organizing/Decluttering process as well as looking ahead to to patching some jeans and looking for suggestions for that project.

Stay Crafty y’all, take care of yourselves and each other.

Love,

nmjewells

TTMT #580 - nmjewells - February 10, 2026 - Pegboards n' Cubes (Crafty Show & Tell)

Not sure why youtube isn't cooperating with blogger right now, when they are both owned by the same company, but here's the link to this week's video:

I'm still working on rearranging/reorganizing my Project Room in my spare time. There's not that much of that at the moment, because when I get home from work I'm pretty beat, but it's a good kind of tired. So this week I just show you a bit of progress organizing my project room. When I find myself with at home with both time AND energy, that's what I'm working on these days.

Stay crafty, be kind, and take care of each other, y'all.

Love,

nmjewells