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Make Piggie!

After the fish incident I felt that I should follow through on Roxanne’s request that I “make piggie.” I added a second pants fabric (salvaged from Charlie’s pajamas) to make a “belt” for this rather portly pig. He has cherry woven ribbon suspenders with big red buttons (sewn with metallic thread) “holding them up” onRead More →

Fish

I made this fish inspired by a picture in The Splendid Book of Soft Toys. The fish in the book, like most things in that book it seems, is meant to be an understuffed floor cushion. Mine is a firmly stuffed toy about 5″ in diameter. He’s grown on me – I really had problemsRead More →

Lamb

I found a great craft book at the library on Sunday – The Splendid Soft Toy Book by Erna Rath (1973). All sorts of great dolls and animals to make. I started with this little lamb. In the book he is supposed to be a floor cushion, but I wanted to make a little oneRead More →

A blog friend becomes a real live friend

On Saturday morning, while Charlie took Roxy to music class, I drove a few towns away to meet Mimi Kirchner in person! Over the last several months she has been cleaning out the attic of her mother’s house and attempting to find new homes for her mother’s abundant fabric and sewing supplies. Because much ofRead More →

Plain Spoken

What started as my Tie One On apron is in the process of becoming a quilt for my yet to be born niece, Emerson Rose. This month the apron is to have a holiday theme. I thought of doing a Thanksgiving apron, even though I don’t cook much for Thanksgiving now because we always goRead More →

New doll and a little pumpkin patch

My newest doll has a kinda flapper look, I think. I was really inspired by this site, originally posted by Molly Chicken (thanks!), and I wanted to try my hand at making some patchwork in the style of Unfinished Business from The Modern Quilt Workshop. I used the patchwork for her dress and her hat.Read More →

The Holiday Marketplace

Last Thursday night was the craft fair I had been preparing for these past several weeks. The night before, Charlie helped me arrange all the softies and the cards and the aprons in such a nice, clever presentation (he has a serious knack for displaying stuff like this). Then, on the day of the fair,Read More →

BackTack Received (and it is so wonderful!)

I was lucky enough to receive a wonderful package from Lori at gryphons feather a week ago. She sewed a beautiful polka dotted canvas tote with pockets on the inside and a magnetic closure and she filled it with the most exciting treats. So much lovely yard and knitting needles (plus a handmade needle rollRead More →

Moo Moo

My little calf staring in amazement upon arrival at the neighborhood Halloween party and parade yesterday afternoon. And consuming her third cookie. Right after this she freaked out and had to be taken home whereupon she fell down the front steps, freaking us out. She was okay, though. Things calmed down a bit after that.Read More →

Finishing things up for Thursday

I finished a new set of six owlets for the fair on Thursday. I made them all at the same time – assembly line-style. I usually don’t like to work this way because I find I lose interest in the project before I finish sewing the last few creatures, but it worked well for theseRead More →