I’m excited that I’ve made a dress I can wear out in public (unlike all of my previous failed attempts over the years). Let me tell you a little bit about it…
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Tag: thrifted sheets
I Like My Skirts Fast and Cheap, 2.0
Whether you are motivated by frugality, by the desire to live in an eco-friendly way, or by an abundance of fun and funky vintage sheets in your linen closet, this simple tutorial should appeal to you.
Read More: I Like My Skirts Fast and Cheap, 2.0We’re on!
I was encouraged by those of you who showed interest in having another sheet swap, and I ended up at the thrift shop yesterday. A few stripes and a floral found their way back to my house. Later I was wandering around online, and oh! there are some really unbelievable mod florals on eBay! I […]
Read More: We’re on!Opportunities lost
I spent a good portion of my day behind the sewing machine. I made a few more head scarves from Weekend Sewing – those things are just what I need for keeping my long hair out of my face when I’m leaning over a project, or (more importantly) out of my eyes and my mouth […]
Read More: Opportunities lostFlower 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 the […]
Read More: Flower PowerPeaceful 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 […]
Read More: Peaceful putteringMore weekend sewing
I made the Weekend Sewing shirt today, using a thrifted sheet. And I am fairly sure I chose poorly, when it came to size. It came out entirely too wide, and the sleeves were too long. Strangely, though, I thought the shirt itself could have used another few inches of length. I was really not […]
Read More: More weekend sewingThree sheets to the wind
No, I’m not really drunk. I just wanted to talk about three bags made out of sheets, and the phrase popped right into my head. I’m not above kicking back with a Mike’s Hard Lime later, though, if you prefer for me to represent truth in advertising… These three little piles each contain two fat […]
Read More: Three sheets to the windSummer shirt extravaganza
Earlier in the week I made that Simplicity 3835 I posted about in my Reasons to be Cheerful, and having 2/3 of a perfectly good vintage white sheet left, I got brave and tackled the pattern that has been languishing since I bought it a few months ago. Introducing my first attempt at Simplicity 4589. […]
Read More: Summer shirt extravaganzaThe kitchen’s a mess again
You see, there was this strawberry… And I couldn’t very well just leave it sitting there, looking at me, could I? Not when there was pectin in the cupboard and, next to that, a box of shiny new mason jar lids. I just had to give in to fate, tie on my trusty apron, and […]
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