sewing

Everything in its Bag

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Remember these? They are the Charming Travelers that stayed here when the rest of them moved on to GrammieQ. Want to know what I did with them? Or, at least most of them? A project bag! See the tan floral-ish square in the lower right? That’s the charm that influenced all my choices. I used the blue colorway of this fabric to back a quilt a couple years ago. So the arrival of this other color meant I was going to do something that brought both colorways together. The blue version of the fabric is the lining inside the bag …

Caitlyn, Seasons

Now with 3 pounds of candy

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This year’s costume started out as one of our projects from Craftsy’s Costume Box class. The colors were partly determined by a small box of beads, partly by what colors of tulle were available the day we went shopping. After seeing what we had, Caitlyn and I agreed that this was a Fire Fairy costume. I don’t think we were thinking of Halloween at all when we got started, but then that was months ago. Caitlyn, of course, wants everything that’s in the Costume Box. So far, we’ve got this skirt and crown pair and her sword. There are more …

Caitlyn, parenting

Writing to “Ten”

Yesterday was a rough day in Caitlyn-land. I don’t know all the details but apparently her school day was frustrating, her playdate didn’t go quite as planned, and dinner wasn’t her favorite. Lately, she’s been exploring note-writing as a way of expressing her feelings. It helps her put her feelings into words in a less-pressured circumstance than a conversation and it allows her a way of getting the feelings out that’s more constructive than acting out or breaking things. It’s kinda weird, though, to be asked how to spell “really”, “there”, “smoke”, “head”, and “patience” and then to find a …

quilts

Bloggers’ BOM Blocks Done!

 

It’s not the 25th yet and all my Bloggers’ BOM blocks are done! Here’s Block 12… And here’s Block 13. Time to figure out how to arrange them! (Sorry about the questionable photo. It’s October in Seattle… and I’m not waiting until the next sunny day to take pictures!) I’m liking this layout at the moment. I definitely want to put something between the blocks but haven’t yet decided between sashing (and if so, how wide should the sashing be?) or putting squares between all these blocks (although that would probably make the final quilt too white?). I’ve got some …