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I promise I’ll follow up on the spring rolls soon. Cross my heart and hope to knit with nasty scratchy acrylic. But tea cozies always get me excited (obviously, I don’t get out too much.) Matt is moving his studio back to the house, which means that the space I appropriated for sewing had to [...]

Getting ready for a craft show on short notice and a strict time budget is challenging. It’s not something that I deal with gracefully, but I manage to deal with it well enough. Usually I’m not in a time crunch but bless my mom’s heart– she said “Why don’t we skip the craft fair this [...]

I love Christmas holiday fabrics. It doesn’t matter what time of year, how funky I feel or how not in the holiday spirit I might be– there’s always a little part of me that jumps up and down like a hyperactive 10 year old on a handful of twinkies when I get to pull out [...]

I love otedama, don’t ask me to do it, I’m just an admirer. I am about as coordinated as a drunken moose. But I can make the ojami just fine which does take a little coordination, but at least when it comes to avoiding needle pricks and sewing my own thumbs into the bag I [...]

I’m having so much fun making vinyl bags for two very good reasons: Doesn’t take long No shopping for supplies I made this one with the idea of a light duty tote, something that I take to the library on a rainy day and use to carry home a few paperbacks. I was stumped when [...]

Matt surprised me by recanting his battery-less faith and acquiring batteries for the camera. Which means I can show you this little bag that I was rambling on about last night. I added the crochet top and yarn handles this morning (the fabric inside had to be stuffed in there otherwise it would have looked [...]

I know, it’s not my usual sewing mantra, usually I manage to put so many straight pins in a project that I need to grab the wire cutters in order to extract a few when I’m finished. But tonight I managed to sew a clear vinyl bag from some clear vinyl that was in the [...]

After searching high and low for the card of blue-gray buttons meant for Lexi’s frock, I gave up. As a parent though it’s possible to give up without giving in. For me this meant digging out the scraps and making two coordinating fabric covered buttons. Thinking I was really clever I measured, sewed and cut [...]

After a virtual storm of paperwork and forms concerning school, an online tour of the virtual campus, and faxing papers back and forth for financial aid over the course of three weeks I have nothing more to do than wait for my books. And wait. And do a little more waiting. I finished another frock [...]

Adorable and not at all creepy. Just because it sits there and stares at me. Wearing the sweater I knit for it. Staring. Watching. Waiting.