Subtitle: Turning one pair of jeans into an unusable pile of rags, and then turning a different pair of jeans into something resembling a skirt.
I’ve been thinking about skirts lately, chiefly because I’ve been contemplating getting a Utilikilt for Mike Neir. Men in kilts are hot, right? Sadly, I don’t think he’d go for it, [...]
I never, in 100 years, ever would have guessed I’d be spending hours hunched over a sewing machine, completely engrossed in what I’m doing. Never ever. But I am, and it’s ok.
I’m still entirely flummoxed by some of this stuff, however… like guiding fabric properly. I’ll see the needle drifting one way or the other, [...]
After a five-hour quilting marathon today, I seem to have enough blocks to piece together a small couch throw. While I’d planned to make something a bit larger, I’d like to be done with this particular first project and move onto something different. There’s still quite a bit of work to go, obviously, what with [...]
One of my co-workers showed this site to his mom, an avid quilter. He must have said something about it being a quilting blog, because her response was, “This isn’t a quilting blog; it’s an ‘I don’t know how to quilt blog!’”
Ah, truer words have never been spoken…
Then, she even offered to sit me down [...]
My sewing machine and I are having some… issues.
We’re still learning each other’s quirks and needs. I wonder why, at random, the feed dogs* refuse to pull the fabric through, instead opting to make a bajillion stitches in and out of the same hole. It wonders why I occasionally decide to do something indicating I [...]