Today is our fourth wedding anniversary. Charlie and I met in the summer of 1999. I had just moved to Cambridge to get my master’s degree at Harvard. Charlie had been in the Boston area for a few years already and was regularly leading Friday night services at Harvard Hillel. After spending four years at… 

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The new dog pattern is working out really well. It turned out that the head gusset on the first prototype was fine, it was the under gusset that was the problem – it was a bit too wide so he ended up doing the splits. I fixed that and also set a better order in… 

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We had a nice, if hot, Father’s Day. Charlie liked the necktie/shoetree collage Roxanne and I made for him as well as his gifts – an actual necktie, a business card folio, and a book called “I Love My Daddy” which Roxanne requests by name, giving Charlie a nice thrill. We spent the morning visiting… 

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To my guy – thanks for everything you do. You are a creative and loving father for our two little girls and they do love you so. Happy Father’s Day.

I was in the mood for some color the other day and started to put together this bear. He’s made of pretty much random pieces of fabric, vintage and thrifted and new, that happened to be out and in piles on the floor for other projects. I almost didn’t finish him because I just wasn’t… 

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Okay, the yellow and grey lion is all done. His seams are right side in, unlike the inside out seams on the others, so he looks a bit more tidy – maybe too tidy? I do like his color scheme, though – similar to the colors I used on these placemats. I also worked on… 

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We spent a lovely afternoon today with a crafty blogger who has become a long distance friend, Amanda, and her son Max. Amanda and her family live in Arizona so we felt so lucky that they paid us a visit while on the east coast visiting family. Amanda is just as lovely as she seems… 

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