Roxanne is Amelia Earhart. We drifted from our presidential theme of years past (here is Roxanne as Lincoln in Kindergarten and Washington in first grade), but still chose a figure from history. We found a leather aviator helmet online and a jacket at the thrift shop. I made a white aviator scarf and we bought…
Archives for October 2011
in the studio today
I'm home in my studio this morning. Here are a few glimpses of where I work. This is the far corner of the room where my ironing board lives. I use my ironing board as a cutting table because I only cut little pieces of fabric at a time. I have a crappy Rowenta iron…
checking in
Hello! I am working and working with nothing to show here, but I decided to say hello anyway and give you an update on how things are coming along. A week or two ago I met with Lauren who owns Sew Easy, a sewing studio that offers afterschool classes for kids. Sew Easy has had…
A Spooky Giveaway
I've been a big fan of Wendi Gratz's blog Shiny Happy World for a long while now. I admire Wendi's goal of showing everyone that they can, indeed, learn to sew. No matter how new or intimidated you may be, no matter how many bad Home Ec. memories you may be harboring, you can get…
one more stocking
This one with a bit of wide velvet ribbon as a hanger and some bells.
Felt Christmas Stocking
This one with a bit of wide velvet ribbon as a hanger and some bells.
Christmas Stockings
Yes, I am going from sewing for Sukkot to sewing for Christmas. That's how it rolls around here. I am making samples for a class I am hoping to teach in November on felt applique Christmas stockings. I have never celebrated Christmas and although I've certainly seen many stockings I really had no idea what…
Making Christmas Stockings
Yes, I am going from sewing for Sukkot to sewing for Christmas. That's how it rolls around here. I am making samples for a class I am hoping to teach in November on felt applique Christmas stockings. I have never celebrated Christmas and although I've certainly seen many stockings I really had no idea what…
the Sukkah
Sunday was the day after Yom Kippur and we spent the morning putting up the Sukkah. It took just under an hour to construct the whole thing. We are loving our new Sukkah with pipes and fittings that snap together (our old one was wooden and required a lot of very frustrating time with an…
the 20-minute tote
Yesterday morning I pulled out some awesome upholstery weight cotton I’d been hording for at least five years and made the 20-minute tote from The Purl Bee. Do you see why I’ve been saving it? That fabric is fantastic. No idea where I got it or who designed it. I found several yards of red…