Sewing, blogging, and creative business.
I’m very excited to have finished this patchwork Progress Pride Flag quilt. The pattern is by Bobbie Gentili from Geeky Bobbin. All of the fabrics are scraps from my stash.
This was a fun project and the finished quilt is really bright and colorful. As part of this process, I also enjoyed learning more about how the design of the Progress Pride flag came to be.
I made this little ornament today. It is about all I can finish now knowing I'm supposed to be writing and editing and drawing. That and another of these little assemblages. They are in my shop today. The book is in good shape I think. Really. I just need to buckle down and finish the annoyingRead More →
Wishing you a fun day with family and turkey and all that good stuff.
I like to make these tiny bird assemblages when I need a break from the other sorts of sewing I'm supposed to be doing, and the technical writing, and life in general. When I was supposed to be packing last night for our trip to Connecticut I worked on this instead. I just listed itRead More →
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 whenRead More →
I've had this book, Soft Animals A to Z by Carolyn Vosburg Hall, for a while, and although I'd read all the patterns I had never sewn anything from it. It is a fairly new book as soft toy pattern books go, published in 2003, and it is ambitious. 26 patterns of every sort ofRead More →
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 goodRead More →
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 theRead More →
In between writing pattern instructions for the last six projects in the book I made Rudi’s lamb. I’m still enjoying sewing with wool felt. I had a few felt punched flowers left over from another project and made the lamb a little floral garland to wear around her neck. The top of the legs onRead More →
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 moveRead More →
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,Read More →