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I vote cute
I promised to tell you whether the flag shorts came out cute or dorky. I vote cute. More from our early Fourth of July celebrating here.
continue reading "I vote cute"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"Warm weather knitting
Eamonn and I were baking bread last week when he said, out of the blue, “how come you don’t knit anymore?”
The honest answer? I was in the middle of a Spring scarf sometime in April, when I got to the end of the skein, and I was too lazy to go upstairs for the second [...]
Playing with scraps
I promised a few days ago that I’d make somethingorother and show it to you. I do feel like this blog is more interesting when I’m filling it with crafty things, but sometimes life gets in the way, or I’m just not having a lot of luck making things that I actually like…
I’ve been flipping [...]
In my mind, I may still be at the beach
Turquoise sky, periwinkle ocean, golden sand… it seems I brought a little bit of the Jersey shore home with me last week, and finally let it escape through my fingers.
This is how I spent my Saturday: breakfasting, mixing clay colors, layering the colors in just the right order, arranging the textures to mimic the look [...]
continue reading "In my mind, I may still be at the beach"Birthday baubles
So, I turned 38 today. I decided to give myself a gift, and as such, I spent the better part of last night and this morning making myself a pendant necklace. The tile features an organic design with bits of metal leaf, touches of sparkle, and hints of translucency throughout. I sanded it and [...]
continue reading "Birthday baubles"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"Multitasking
I’m thinking that to live a creative life, you have to be pretty good at multitasking.
For instance, you could be standing on your dining room’s built-in cabinet for a Bench Monday picture, just after you put the chicken in the oven and just before the handyman comes to give you an estimate on painting the [...]
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