Posted in Fab Craft Boutiques on June 29, 2007 | No Comments »
After visiting Molly Chicken today (very cute post by the way), I became intrigued with a Japanese craft magazine posted on the frontpage, Cotton and Paint (now I am possessed with the idea that I need to call Kinokuniya to see if they carry it in the US) - anyways, letting my fingers crawl across [...]
Posted in Fab Craft Boutiques on June 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
MakeMinePink.com
What a clever idea! Women banding together to create a co-op on the internet - a small network of start up boutiques - where they can all reside in one location - and share costs for advertising that would otherwise be prohibitive for individual owners. How cool is that?! This seems like a much better [...]
Posted in Vintage Sewing on June 25, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, here is my “too hot to handle” oven mitt with pom-poms and all to add to the growing collection of photos online for this sweet little project. I couldn’t show off the curvy quilting lines on the backside - the funnest part of the project. It made me feel like I was breaking all the rules and [...]
Posted in Patchwork on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The barometer reads 90F and rising but it was fun to imagine how cool and refreshing I might feel sipping on a tall, cold glass of iced lemonade while I finished making these coasters. Each one seemed to take on a personality of its own. I’ve never owned, used, or made a set of coasters [...]
Posted in On the Needles on June 18, 2007 | No Comments »
I know, its just a little wash cloth, but I kinda had an idea that it might look like fun squiggly noodles nestled inside it’s own matching bowl. Now we have a new wash cloth and table setting for the summer. My son loves these wash cloths because the texture works wonders for his teenage complexion. I found the [...]
Posted in Patchwork on June 16, 2007 | No Comments »
Too hot to knit, too tired to make anything super big, but mighty challenging this was. I fell in love with the book Denise Schmidt Quilts and thought I’d test out one of her patterns with these small coasters first to see how it goes. All of her patterns are based on templates that need [...]
Posted in Vintage Sewing on June 16, 2007 | No Comments »
I wish I had some lovely homey story to share about how I had my arms up to my elbows in flour making some special treat with my new apron to wear, but hopefully with a bit of luck, that will be next on the agenda. I made this for a graphic design project, after [...]
Posted in Vintage Sewing on June 13, 2007 | No Comments »
This is my growing pile of little sewing projects squeezed into little bits of spare time here and there, providing much needed moments of inner peace during a hectic few weeks of high stress at work. I thought I would share a link to a wonderful source of organic lavender buds (Purple Haze) for making these [...]
Posted in On the Needles on June 10, 2007 | No Comments »
I had a lot of fun making a second one of these, trying out another color from the Noro Garden Lite collection. This time I tried experimenting with the color order, cutting out a few and borrowing from another skein. The purple and red were back to back on the skein so I let it [...]
