There’s a relatively new Goodwill store within 1/2-hour of home, so we all hopped in the van today and took a field trip. I was hoping to find a funky sheet to use for the swap. What I found was this very neutral taupe sheet – not exactly funky, but sometimes neutral is good – […]
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I’ve been thinking…
Dangerous I know 😉 But really quickly, since I’m about to head off to spend the day with my mother and my nephews, I wanted to point you to an idea I had last night. Penny emailed me a picture of the skirt she made using the tutorial I wrote, and it occurred to me […]
Read More: I’ve been thinking…Banana seats at bedtime
So, I made another pair of pj pants. I used my usual pattern, but I chopped about 8 inches off of the bottom to make them cropped, and I added a decorative cuff in a coordinating print. Aren’t these bicycles cute? I love them – they’re very girly in a “riding your banana-seat bike to […]
Read More: Banana seats at bedtimeFabric design for the masses
I’ve been making clay “fabric” for years: Taking slices of my square canes and tiling them to make a nice sheet of clay that could be used as a veneer or to imitate the look of fabric. When I started playing with actual fabric last year, and mixing up clay colors to go with the […]
Read More: Fabric design for the massesI like my skirts fast and cheap: a tutorial
If you have a bed sheet from the thrift shop and the ability to sew a straight line, you can make yourself this fast and cheap skirt!
Read More: I like my skirts fast and cheap: a tutorialQuitting time
Would you think less of me, if I were I quitter? 😉 See, the thing is, I had made this deal that I’d only make a new skirt for myself after I lost 5 pounds. It seemed a pretty reasonable goal back in January when it was too cold to really wear skirts and I […]
Read More: Quitting timeBright and springy
I am not a particularly outdoorsy person, but I have a highly-attuned need to bring the outside in, wherever possible. I like natural lighting and open windows. It makes winter tough on me sometimes, and it’s why I look so forward to the arrival of spring every year. I spent the last five days in […]
Read More: Bright and springyGive and take
I’m realizing that there is a noticeable relationship between the number of creative show-and-tell posts I make and how caught-up I am with orders and shipping. Take this week, in fact. I haven’t made one single little pretty thing to show you. But my mailbox only has about four orders in it that need my […]
Read More: Give and takeBuilding better bibs
Ah. That’s better . I ditched the washcloth idea and went with some flannel instead. The fronts are linen paired with American Jane’s Look and Learn leftovers from the boys’ lap blankets. Everything I used came from my stash, which is nice. I made them very much in the style of my scarves, but following […]
Read More: Building better bibsBusted Bibs
So I came up with this brilliant idea while making a drug store run a few days ago. Drug Fair had these bundled packs of a dozen brightly-colored wash cloths for $6. Now maybe that should have been a tip-off right there as to the quality of these things. A more savvy shopper might have […]
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