I’ve been eying this tutorial for loungy pants for a couple of months now, and finally got the gumption up to try it last night. After having found the Perfect Vintage Sheet yesterday at the Goodwill, I drafted my pattern on brown paper left over from a mail order box – it was the only [...]
Mom’s quilt is finished. It feels kinda crazy to actually say that, but it’s true – the quilt is finished, and it even survived washing and drying. It’s good to be done, and done on time. I’ll arrange delivery to her sometime this week, and then I will let go of this quilt. I may [...]
Blargh – So I haven’t gotten much sleep the last several nights, and as such, I have once again forgotten to pick up the giveaway stuff to put into the mail today. I’m so sorry, I’ll put it someplace I absolutely can’t miss it for tomorrow! The “yay” part is the reason I was up [...]
I have one thing made tonight I can’t talk about quite yet, but another I’m happy to share. First though, I seek the wisdoms of the internets. During the night’s first project, though, I noticed odd behavior from my machine. It’s skipping stitches. It’ll go along for a couple of inches at its prescribed stitch [...]
There was very little stash activity this week, very little sewing going on at all, actually. However, yesterday, I spent basically the entire day yesterday in bed, hand-quilting Mom’s quilt. It was a gloriously relaxing day – I let Hulu tell me stories, and I think I’m getting much better with the hand-quilting (after a [...]