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Not so intimidating anymore
From the moment I saw the lounge pants in Amy Butler’s In Stitches, I was smitten. This was two years ago, and I had barely a month of sewing under my belt. Every delicious project in that book looked impossibly complicated to me, so after a month of drooling over the pants, the apron, and [...]
continue reading "Not so intimidating anymore"Flower Power
My six-year-old has developed this habit of telling me how cute I look when I wear a particular pair of pajama bottoms. He’s taken to calling them my “cute pajamas” and coos at me every time I wear them. Today, in fact, he nearly forbade me to get dressed because it would mean putting [...]
continue reading "Flower Power"The book pile, volume one
Every year in May I go a little bit book crazy. I think, maybe, after several years of receiving birthday cards with Barnes & Noble gift cards tucked inside, I’ve become conditioned to mine my wish list for some creative reading, as my special day approaches. I spend much of May mentally spending any birthday [...]
continue reading "The book pile, volume one"My Skinner Blend Quilt
The Skinner Blend, for those of you not familiar with polymer clay techniques, is a popular method for color-mixing, that results in a sheet of clay that has a perfectly smooth gradation from one color to another. I use Skinner Blends extensively in my cane-making, although by the time I’m done manipulating them, what you [...]
continue reading "My Skinner Blend Quilt"Green (and pink) aprons
I may have hinted just a teeny tiny bit that I’d like to get a copy of Betz White’s new book, Sewing Green. With Mother’s Day and my birthday both being this month, it may have come up in conversation once or twice. I might have flipped through the book at Barnes & Noble last [...]
continue reading "Green (and pink) aprons"Peaceful puttering
I didn’t sleep very well last night, maybe fifteen minute stretches here and there. I was too twitchy to sleep, constantly aware that at any moment the phone beside the bed could ring and startle me awake, my heart beating frantically out of my chest. The phone does that to me.
It was an unusual night, [...]
Pillowcase party
I’ve been thrifting. Did remarkably well, too. I usually don’t find much, but my luck has gotten better and better since a new thrift store opened up nearby. This weekend, I found twelve pillowcases, four sheets, and two duvet covers that needed, yes, needed to belong to my fabric stash. I’m going to have to [...]
continue reading "Pillowcase party"Wherein Lisa rambles through a week’s worth of show-and-tells
It all started last week, when I destroyed my new bamboo shirts and was left with nothing new to wear, despite several hours of work and even more hours of daydreaming about how nice those new bamboo shirts would have been to wear all spring and summer.
That left me feeling distinctly dissatisfied, naturally, and instead [...]
(Mis)adventures in tub-dying
I’ve had this post planned for oh, two or three weeks. I was going to show you this luscious bamboo fabric, the two fabulous shirts I sewed from it, and the magical transformation that came over them when I stirred them around in a few buckets of dye.
There were a few glitches along the way, [...]
Doohickeys and knobs
Neil decided on a whim yesterday to clean out the boys’ bedroom closet. It was a decision that made me clench, mostly because I know most of the junk in that closet is mine. It’s been there since before the boys were even born. My stuff is safe & cozy in that closet, but most [...]
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