I’ve consulted with random.org and we have our winners! First up, the McCall’s 9395 will go to Comment 3, from Miss Dolly Bow Peep: And the Butterick 3070 will go to Comment 5, from jqluo: Ladies, be on the look out for an email from me. And congratulations! Thanks to everyone who entered. And a welcome shout-out to everyone who stopped by and to everyone who decided to stick around for a while. I hope you like it here! Save
Check out what’s hanging out back there behind my sewing machine. Look out, world: I’ve got a serger now! Ok, I’ve had the serger since November. But with holidays and so forth, I didn’t get a chance to get to know it much. Now that I’ve finished my Tiramisu (pictures to come as soon as the sun comes back – Seattle is going from rain to fog and back again these days. I don’t mind the rain, but the fog is really wearing.), we’ve logged a little time together. I’m feeling pretty confident about the threading and about serging most …
It’s Sew Grateful Week! That means it was just about a year ago that I started looking around the internet for folks who sewed clothes for themselves. Not to knock the quilters I follow or those who sew kids’ fashion, it’s just that I want to also sew for me. I may not comment much, but I’m a regular lurker around My Happy Sewing Place, Four Square Walls, Cation Designs, Ginger Makes, and several other sites. I may be moving slowly on my own Wardrobe Improvement Project, but I’m pretty sure any forward progress at all is at least in …
Or, it was. And, yes, it’s a thing. Our local ice cream place has hosted an event for International Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day for the last three years. It’s seems to still be a small thing, though, so if you missed it, I won’t tell if you have a slightly delayed celebration. The story is that it’s cold and dark and dull in the Northern Hemisphere, post-Christmas and pre-daffodils. So, someone declared a fun holiday right in the middle of it. There’s a long tradition of marking this point in the year: Imbolc, the pagan Gaelic festival celebrating …
It’s only been recently that I’ve started to take seriously the challenge of “sewing down” the fabric stash. Several of last year’s projects have “use what you have” as part of their guidelines. I’ve used stash-fabric for many of my Sew.Quilt.Give. contributions. Throughout last year, I had the general goal of not buying lots of new fabric; I don’t know that I succeeded at this, since I have a teetering pile of “potential” clothes. Not buying more fabric is one thing. Using up the stuff on hand is another. I may have intentions to live lightly and not accumulate stuff, …
Once upon a time, I thought I’d crochet myself some socks. I bought two balls of sock yarn and found a pattern to download. And made exactly 1.4 of the ugliest socks ever. I don’t know if it was me or the pattern but this was a sock designed for someone with a large growth protruding from the top of her foot. I did the only sensible thing: tear it all out and pretend it hadn’t happened. Now, what to do with two balls of sock yarn? I started a shawl. It made sense at the time. My shawl pattern …
