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The locals tell me that it can snow all the way into June. June. (Sob.) Snow. (Sniffle.) Get this– next month, on the 3rd, a yarn shop is going to open up here in town. I’m so excited. The only way I could possibly be more excited about a yarn shop opening would be if [...]

No one is going to get that bastardized reference are they? Moving right along then. In keeping with my current thing of making creatures out of garments– sock frogs! Frogs made of socks. One of these days I’m actually going to get around to making a classic sock monkey. My soft sculpting techniques need some [...]

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 [...]