I’ve been working steadily away on the Christmas felt kit I first blogged about here and to my great surprise, it has now joined the ranks of finished objects. Of course, I couldn’t just leave it the way it was meant to be in the pattern designer’s eyes… oh no! Follow the ‘recipe’? Nope, not [...]
It has begun. The collecting and deciding and stitching and fussing has begun. You see, I finally, finally finished stitching the tree skirt I started several years ago. It’s true! It’s done! That tree skirt now has history, and it hasn’t even made it under the Christmas tree yet. Every year on the first of [...]
Remember the quilt? The turquoise one B wanted for her birthday that was anything but turquoise? It’s done! I don’t have a good pic of it on her bed, but here’s one of it as it was getting pinned in preparation for quilting and binding. (sorry for the wonky lighting, I was photographing it in [...]
B is a colourful kind of girl. She likes large collections of markers and crayons, chalk that looks like rainbows, and the oddest, most eye-popping assortment of fat-quarters of quilting cotton that you’ve ever seen. Trust me, I know. And when I say eye-popping? I truly mean it. Truly. My eyes have been popping out [...]
If you are my sister, do not, I repeat, DO NOT read beyond this point. Seriously. Stop reading now. No peeking! Because beyond this point, there be pirates. I mean Christmas gifts. And pirates. Really big, strong pirates with wooden peg legs and eye patches (which contrary to popular belief don’t actually cover up missing pirate [...]
I know, it isn’t even Halloween yet, but you can’t escape it… Christmas is coming, and coming soon! The malls are already filling up with Christmas items, much to my disgust, and yet at the same time, I’ve already been elbows-deep in Christmas preparations around here. I have to be. There are only 86 days [...]
About a year ago, I sewed up a bunch of cute cloth napkins to add to our meagre collection and help us stop using paper napkins at home for once and for all. The kids helped me pick out a bunch of cute cotton fabrics with all sorts of patterns and colours, and then I [...]
