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Appalachian Dreamin’

My dudes, I am super busy these days. I picked up a Little Lady job, working with sewing machines, and it keeps me off the streets at night. The laundry produced by two incontinent boys and two pretty clean adults keeps me off the streets in the day time. And one day, one day, this […]

Made lately: just little things

It’s always just little things. I usually work on tiny easy knitting projects at night after the kids go to bed, while Iain and I watch television. They aren’t very taxing, complicated or big; on the plus side, they actually get finished.
But every now and then I can fit in some actual sewing machine time. […]

Vintage sheet quilt

I started cutting blocks in February of 08, and here it is September of 09 and I’m just now quilting it. Isn’t that cute, how everything takes a hundred years.

Here’s what I wrote when I started:
I drew inspiration from the patchwork throw in Amy Butler’s In Stitches; from the summer throw quilt in Last Minute […]

Meep! It’s Supafab!

AT LAST.

I feel like I have been talking about Supafab for a hundred years. I feel like I have been working on it for even longer. And I feel like I have been thinking about it for at least three or four millennia. Now I finally get to officially share with you my latest project:

Supafab.
This […]

What I’ve been working on lately: Supafab

The last month I’ve been working on designing a few products for a friend of mine, who’s launching a new baby boutique soon. I gathered this assortment of wools and cottons and silks and made it up into a scarf and a pillow so you can see the color palette I’m working on. I just […]

Bookmarked lately

I finally installed a del.icio.us/Firefox plugin and while I was at it, figured I’d share some things I’ve bookmarked lately.

etsyhacks to make selling on etsy easier
Paper Piecing ~ Hexagons — how to hand-piece hexes on the go (tried this last night and made two coasters)
Bringing Outdoor Plants Inside For The Winter
Value Quilts Tutorial
Paper Piecing Block […]

How Splityarn was re-branded

Photo by Splityarn.
Splityarn is one of the flickr users whose account I stalked last winter when I was getting all knitty again. Then my knitting obsession faded (as all my obsessions do: they wax and wane and wax again) and I did a massive contact purge and I fell out of that loop. (Knitting pun? […]

Summer Skirt Sew-Along

I saw on the Sew,Mama,Sew Blog that there will be a Summer Skirt Sew-Along on the SMS forums. Thanks to Swaptree, I have a copy of Sew What Skirts coming at me in the mail this week. I’m think now would be a good time to make a 70’s-ish, dark denim version of this wrap skirt: […]

Let me tell you about my Singer.

Sew Mama Sew, one of my top fave sewing-related blogs, is doing a sewing machine meme right now, kind of like Facebook’s 25 Things but for your machine. Yay, right? Right.

What brand and model do you have?
I have a Singer 5932. Also a Brother Lock 929D serger.
How long have you had it?
The Singer? […]

Building ‘sustainable connection’: make a mail center

OOOH, do I want to make this with the kids. I love the idea.
Update: We made one! Yay!

Craftzine.com blog : Family Connection Letter Writing Center.
As our own children grow and mature, we realize how crucial it is to think ahead and to think outside of what we are doing at the moment. We have to […]

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