Really, I want to do something creative, but I can't. The book is due Friday. Friday, my friends. Wow. UPS is coming tomorrow afternoon to pick up 11 boxes of birds. And I'm editing patterns. Editing patterns is confusing and mind-numbing. They all look the same, but they are all different in subtle but vitally…
Humpty Gets Some Press
I'm excited to show you the latest issue of Australian Homespun Magazine where there is a very nice article about me and my work as well as the pattern for my Humpty Dumpty doll. I get many, many emails requesting this doll in particular so I am very pleased that my pattern is now published. …
Happy Thanksgiving to You!
Wishing you a fun day with family and turkey and all that good stuff.
working on a horse
There are a lot of final things to finish before my December manuscript deadline. Between writing and putting a million finishing touches on everything I am continuing to study four-legged toy design. I set out to design a horse. Here is the sketch. I liked the sketch and thought it was proportionally okay, but when…
ram – second try
I edited the ram pattern and gave it another try and I'm happier with this version. In a fit of studio cleaning the other day I accidentally threw out the under gusset, head, and head gusset pattern pieces. At first I was really annoyed at myself, but then I decided maybe it was a good…
ram – first try
After Rudi's camel and lamb I thought I would try to apply some new skills to a first draft of a ram pattern. It is really helpful to see the ram photographed. I need to make a number of edits to the pattern. Even though I tried to exaggerate the length and width of the…
learning from patterns
Now that the mass of sewing for the book is just about done (nearly 40 birds, whew!), I have a renewed interest in designing four-legged animals. Believe it or not, I feel like my mass of knowledge about fabric birds is now in this repository and suddenly I feel totally ready, and free, to move…
handmade hat
I finally made this hat from Amy's book. I've wanted to make it for a long while and now that we finally have a 21st century printer that can create an enlarged copy (!) I was able to enlarge the pattern to the proper size. This project was super satisfying. It took ten minutes total,…
hope you had a happy one
Stella dressed as her beloved Pink Kitty for Halloween. Unfortunately Kitty has become a rather limp, gray, raggy sort of cat. Stella, though, was very happy being as pink as could be. She and Abe were quite a pair.
apples and pumpkins
We went to Dowse Orchard on Sunday afternoon to enjoy the beautiful fall day and to pick the last apples of the season. We also chose our Halloween pumpkins and went on a tractor ride. We went late in the afternoon and the colors were so saturated. It was amazing.
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