I finished the bird in the middle this morning. He is all neutrals and very mod. These three are like a little flock now. We gave Stella a Cotton Monster for her birthday and it is such an amazing toy. His mouth is a big pocket for all your treasures and it is just so…
Archives for April 2008
birds and a birthday
I finished a second bird with a crimson breast this morning. These two look very fine together, I think. I have been putting a lot of thought into my Etsy shop this week. I am hoping to give it some major attention over the summer, with bigger, scheduled updates. The first will be in early…
Ellie – before and after
Roxanne’s classmate and friend, Z., is very attached to a little stuffed elephant, Ellie, that has been with him since he was a baby. Four years of constant love and companionship, plus many many washings, had made poor Ellie totally threadbare. You could literally see the stuffing through his body and he was falling apart…
a red-breasted bird
We walked into town this morning and sat on the grass and watched the Boston Marathon. One of the few things I love about living in the Wellesley is our proximity to the half-way point of the Marathon. The fighter jets fly right over our neighborhood and in the years when it is good weather,…
Pesach and a Cordon Bleu
Passover is fast approaching and I’ve been cooking and cooking these last two days, with another day in the kitchen ahead of me. On the Seder menu this year: -Hard Boiled Eggs-Haroset (I’m making that tomorrow)-Gefilte Fish with Homemade Horseradish (I didn’t make the gefilte fish this year, but I did last year and I…
a coat, some seeds, a meeting, and a canary
Let’s see. The Joseph coat came together really nicely and I presented it to Roxanne’s class today. I showed them the pattern I made from a big sheet of newsprint and then did a little hand sewing demonstration with two leftover scraps of the fabric they had made. And then I pulled out the finished…
white elephant
I was really inspired by the 2nd Annual Softie Awards, especially when Therese put up the elephant tribute category. I have always liked making elephants and there have been various iterations in the past few years, but I thought I’d take up the challenge and make a brand new one. This white elephant is made…
swan
Some research (these are pages from Sibley’s Guide to Birds). Some sketching. Much pattern drafting. Many a gusset and many a dart. A wire armature through the neck and some fishing weights in the body. And a swan. My endurance is building. It took me a week of steady work to make this. It feels…
website!
Hooray! My website went live this morning and I am so thrilled with it. Kim did an awesome job keeping it simple and modern and easy to navigate. I hope you like it as much as I do.