Tag: crafting

sewing

Things I Think I Might Make Someday

 

A notebook, inspired by this but probably with a sewn binding instead of staples. Adventures in book making? A light weight bag that folds down super tiny, so I can keep it in my bag for accidental shopping events Experimental fabric dying, with the backs of old t-shirts, then perhaps making t-shirts for Caitlyn from the results Fabric gift bags. Maybe I can avoid ever buying wrapping paper again? A skirt for Caitlyn based on this Marbled paper. Just discovered today you can do this with water-soluble paints and shaving cream. Wristlet variation. Caitlyn’s going to be old enough to …

homesteading, sewing

Bags for small things

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Maybe it’s the proverbial spring cleaning, but I’ve been on an organizing spree lately. I’ve got bags of out-grown clothes to take to Goodwill, books to drop off for the Seattle Public Library book sale, and dead electronics and computers finally making progress toward Re-PC and Total Reclaim. If it’s been ignored for years, I’m making an effort to decide what to do with it and then follow through. I’m pretty good about bagging up Caitlyn’s old clothes a couple of times a year, but they usually move as far as another closet, not actually out of the house. Mixed …

sewing

Finishing Things

 

Sometime when I was in elementary school (I think), I received a latch-hook rug kit as a gift, probably from my grandparents. It’s a unicorn with a rainbow background, and it’s oh-so-80s. Like many of the projects I worked on then, I liked doing the details, changing colors frequently and filling in small spaces. When it was time to do the background, interest flagged. The project was tucked away and forgotten. It resurfaced sometime after Caitlyn was born, discovered during one of Mom’s excavation projects. She finished that neglected background and brought it up to us, and I tucked it …

sewing

Thread Catcher, Version 2

 

Well, I think it’s an improvement over the last one, but it’s not quite there yet. For one, I think the fabric combination came out too much like a circus tent for my taste. Less contrast, perhaps, or not using a spacious print/solid combination. A little interfacing would be good for structural integrity, and a tiny bit more height before the rim flips down. I think the most critical part, though, would be an adjustment to my template so that the outside rim doesn’t flare. I was hoping for something more vertical. It kinda looks like a mutant cootie-catcher to …

quilts, sewing

Dis-proof of Concept, and The Answer

 

Sewing creates these tiny bits of thread that you cut off a project. I’ve always just had a little pile going on my work table, and sometimes I would sweep them into my hand and get them to a trash bin. More often they would get swept off the table (by my project or my arm) and wait to be vacuumed into oblivion. Last night, I decided that it was time to grow up. So I made a thing in which to put thread tails. What resulted is not quite what I had in mind. It’s edges are too wavy …

Caitlyn

Of Hair Ties and Health

 

After the strangest stomach flu I’ve ever encountered (who knew that you could have a stomach flu and only throw up sporadically?), Caitlyn went back to school today. Rumor is that whatever it was went around and around the kindergarten classes last week, with kids going back to school too soon only to throw up and be sent home again. Glad to have missed out on that! And, really, it’s not a bit too soon. Caitlyn was positively devastated when she realized that she would be missing Kimball‘s Lunar New Year celebration with lion dances; she threw herself into my …