Welcome to my stop on the Back to School Blog Hop organized by the talented Sam Hunter of Hunter's Design Studio. We're on day 25 in a month of helpful sewing tips and tricks, and there is so much wonderful information being shared! Today I'm going to talk starch - what is it, when you should use it, and what to avoid - and I'll share my favorite recipe for making it yourself.

I've been doing a lot of sprucing up here at BBD during the past few months, and it's all been to make it easy to find my new patterns and to have a place to offer pattern extras for my customers. I encourage you to take a look at my new Shop tab above. (And while you're at it, my new Teaching tab, too!) I also encourage you to hop over to Instagram and enter to win my newest pattern. I'll be posting more about the Topiary Quilt in the next few days, but in the meantime, you have a chance to win your own PDF copy!

P.S. This Friday I'll be joining in the Back to School Blog Hop hosted by Sam Hunter of Hunters Design Studio. I'm looking forward to sharing my thoughts on starch with you, and hope you'll check out a few of the other awesome contributors, as well!