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 love fall colors. Deep red is my favorite color and I have a rather overflowing box of red fabrics. I made this rooster with fall in my mind. He is a rather proud fellow, and I am rather proud of him. Just look at all those reds. I have just put him up inRead More →
A new owl today. I made this one entirely from a cloth flour sack. She is stuffed with wool with a wire armature, as always. Lots and lots of loops for feathers. And an owly face. We just may go in the sprinkler this afternoon. It is over 80 degrees here and we need toRead More →
Feels like fall in New England these days. I made a fabric pumpkin this afternoon in celebration. I love fall.
Caramel small bird for artstream. She looked like a shore bird, thus the shells nearby. Stella had her first day of school on Tuesday. She went to her two-day toddler program at our shul, just for an hour and I stayed in the room. But she did great and I know she will be soRead More →
School has started and I have time again. Time to sew and work on new ideas, time to read and think. It feels awesome. Today, during my stretch of time, I finished a rooster. This is the first in a small series of three that will go to artstream. I should have the series completedRead More →
A new owl. I have had this awesome piece of vintage fabric for several years. It is all seventies orange and mustard and brown with jungle animals all over and periodically the words "let us live" in bubble letters. Seriously, does fabric get any better than that? So finally I cut into it for thisRead More →
Wow, this has been a nutty few days. Tons and tons of sewing – more sewing in a shorter amount of time than ever, perhaps. Exciting stuff happening with all that. And it has been "camp Mommy" here. So far we've been to the zoo, Walden Pond, paint-your-own-pottery (actually going to paint-you-own-pottery seems to haveRead More →
This is my desk today. It is so neat and organized. Hooray! I even took down my inspiration boards and cleaned them off and put up my current inspirational images. And there is room to work. To the right you can see my machine, off in one of the two window nooks in our bedroom.Read More →
We are back from a great trip to Burlington, Vermont. We rented a three-story loft downtown on Church Street and had lots of fun shopping (Sweet Lady Jane was my favorite store) and eating (Al's French Fries!), hiking through the woods and swimming at North Beach. Shelburne Farms was amazing. Charlie lovingly held two liveRead More →
Let's just say the dresses were well received. They are totally thrilled with them and it makes me so pleased. This morning, before presenting them, I made each one a matching hair accessory – a fabric yo-yo with a fabric covered button as the center, sewn to a ponytail holder. The combination of a newRead More →