It’s happening, folks. Spring, that is. I don’t know what winter was like where you live, but around here it was odd. Odd in a way that very much made up for the previous two years’ exceedingly frigid and snowy winters. Odd in a way that for the first time since I have been blogging, […]
Read More: Spring colors-ishYear: 2012
Spring sewing
Hi there. I got the sewing machine out this week, and finally satisfied that growing urge. Like my new shirt? It’s the ol’ ubiquitous Simplicity 3835 that I have made more times than I can count. Stick with what works, I say. These days, I’m using a version of the pattern that I know will […]
Read More: Spring sewingBoy, was it foggy
Despite the fact that we are now on our third year of having kids in school full time, it just doesn’t occur to us that we could have dates during the day. That changed last week when Neil suggested that he take a day off so we could go to the beach. By ourselves. What […]
Read More: Boy, was it foggyThe cabinet of doom
I’ve mentioned here before that my so-called “studio” is actually my dining room table. And I’ve also shown you how it can go from clean and lovely to total disaster area in a relatively short time span. Despite all appearances to the contrary, I do actually prefer for my dining room to be neat and […]
Read More: The cabinet of doomDay to day
I think my 365 Project is doing a better job of representing how I spend my days this year than it has in previous years. Maybe it’s because I’m not focusing on a particular theme this time around, and just shooting what I’m doing. I realized this when I sat down to process several day’s […]
Read More: Day to dayThe Afghan Cane
I am happy to report that the Afghan Cane tutorial is complete! It took dozens of photos, and fourteen PDF pages, but it’s finally done and ready for you in the download shop. The afghan is an intermediate level cane. It takes advantage of several partial blends and uses them in a non-traditional way, allowing […]
Read More: The Afghan CaneRedirecting my efforts
After gushing so excitedly about granny squares and clay last weekend, you’d think I’d have gone millefiori crazy, made a small pile of afghan canes, written up a fabulous tutorial, put it up for sale in the download shop, and then hopped up and down yelling, “go check it out! you’ll love it! you’ll learn […]
Read More: Redirecting my effortsGranny Square Brain
It got me. The disease known as Granny Square Brain has got me, and it won’t let go. This is one of those disorders that keeps you awake at night, thinking about color schemes. If you want to get any sleep at all, the only option is to just give in to the fever for […]
Read More: Granny Square BrainCrochet: like portable polymer clay. sort of.
Before I picked up a hook for the first time, I considered crocheting to be a craft most closely related to knitting. After all, you often hear the words “knit” and “crochet” in the same breath. But it didn’t take me long to realize that, for me, crochet is more like polymer clay work than […]
Read More: Crochet: like portable polymer clay. sort of.A banner day
I may have gone just a little bit banner crazy. I was in the middle of making letter tags to attach to my fabric bunting (because that’s what everyone does the day before a party when half of the house is still in need of a good cleaning, right?) when it occurred to me that […]
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