Sewing, Crafting, & General Creative Fun
This week, I was finally able to put my new sewing machine to the test. I wrote about it back in April when I finally decided to spend the extra money to buy from a dealer instead of the fabric store. I’m back to report that it sewed through layers and layers of thick canvas… [Continue Reading]
I’m a little behind on posting the second half of this year’s Halloween costumes. But since I actually finished sewing it the day before Halloween, even if I’d posted right as it was completed it would have been too late to help any of you this year. Weeks before Halloween, Taylor and I decided that… [Continue Reading]
This weekend, I had to give Oliver (our Shorkie puppy) a pretty short haircut. And, as you might expect in November, he suddenly got very chilly. We went out and bought him a sweater and a coat, which helped a lot. He’s currently wearing something warm all day every day, rather than taking it on… [Continue Reading]
I’ll have more to say later about my costume making frenzy this year, which didn’t begin until Monday, when I come back later to post photos of Taylor. For the moment, we are still in the middle of Halloween with lots of celebrating left to do. But since I’m unsure when I’ll get Jacob to… [Continue Reading]
I’ve had a lot of baby gifts to sew lately. That’s a very fun “problem” to have. The last few gifts have been quilts. So I thought I’d do something a little different this time, and try making a baby block. At the moment, I need to clean my house and get myself ready to… [Continue Reading]
I have absolutely no idea what I’m going to do with this piece of embroidery when it’s done. But I really wanted to do it anyway. I’ve been craving a small project I could work on around the family, without the noisy whirr of the sewing machine. I also wanted to practice all the different… [Continue Reading]
I’ve long admired a quilt I found on the no-longer-updated Katie Did blog – go here to see it. The quilt was made with two solids sandwiched together, and then lots and lots of improv stripes all across. I’m also a fan of the black and white striped binding that Rita at Red Pepper Quilts… [Continue Reading]
Last night, I checked out some Kindle books from our local public library. For me, someone who always gets overdue fines on books, the fact that it’s impossible to be late returning ebooks is a very nice thing. If only they had the same selection as the actual paper library. I’m not really complaining, though,… [Continue Reading]
Last night, I finished up two baby quilts. I was too excited to send them off to their recipients (newborn twins) to wait and take proper photos. Here they are stacked and ready to give, which gives a decent view of the top quilt, but none of the bottom one. I used the same color… [Continue Reading]
This afternoon, we got an invitation to a neighbor’s fourth birthday party. The party was in 2 hours, and it was way too hot outside to even think about going shopping. So I started thinking about what I could sew with supplies I already had. I decided on dress-up clothes. My 6-year-old daughter and 4-year-old… [Continue Reading]
