I just completed Simplicity 2886 (View C without the skirt band) and it was a lot of fun. I feel like Donna Reed in it. I feel like making a roast chicken and wearing high heels. Or feather dusting–the easiest clean around. In this dress, you will find gathers, pintucks, and pleats. I really [...]
Archive for September, 2009
11 Sep
Dress Your Toddler in Corduroy
You know when you are sewing and you reach for your pincushion and it’s not there? You turn around and see your elfin toddler giggling and pulling out the pins? That’s when you need Corduroy! No, not the bear, the fabric! I just spent the past week stitching up a fall wardrobe of corduroy clothes [...]
4 Sep
The Big Reveal: My First Quilt
Ah, I am done! Claire slept with it last night. I have spent a few evenings covered with it while slipstitching the binding to the back. (No one warned of this last, time-consuming step!) (Okay, my fault for not reading the book all the through first.:) I conclude it will be the soft, comfiest quilt [...]
4 Sep
Iraqi Bundles of Love
I just found out about this last night. Tuesday, September 8th is the last day to ship. It’s a great cause and really touched me. A man stationed in Iraq set up a way to get sewing resources to the people of Iraqi before his unit is removed from the area. He said he has [...]
3 Sep
Knittercise!
For the past three weeks I have been exercising 3 times a week. It’s a good effort, but it hasn’t been glorious to fit in this new habit. It’s not like when I first decided to spend Claire’s nap time on making things instead of cleaning the house or whatever I did B.S. (before sewing). [...]
2 Sep
Simplicity 2593
I first saw this pattern on Angry Chicken and put it in the back of my mind. Then I saw it for a dollar at Jo-Ann’s and bought it to experiment with some leftover fabric from my Far, Far Away quilt. I needed another white shirt (don’t we all?) and I thought maybe this was [...]
1 Sep
How to apply blanket binding
So, you think you will make a quick blanket as a gift and you buy some cute flannel and fuzzy fabric and want to add the classic satin blanket binding. Then you get frustrated because it bunches and snags and you can’t find any help on the internet! I recently scoured the net for directions [...]
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