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Year: 2005
Christmas is on!
We are in full-on Christmas spirit mode over here. finally! And here are a few Christmas presents coming off the assembly line… a Jess Hutch robot
and some stockings for the boy and his father to match the one I have from when I was a kid…
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experiments
Inspired by purldrop‘s beautiful and inventive crocheted bead necklaces I’ve been trying to make a quilted necklace. I haven’t quite figured out how to weight it yet so it lays flat. In the mean time I sewed this botched attempt to my favorite old petit bateau t-shirt which has seen better
days and needed a spruce up.
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crazy = cool
man I’m predictable. every year I go through a scour-ebay-for-crazy-vintage-ornaments phase. the next phase will be the I-need-every-wooden-german-christmas-ornament-ever-made phase. I’m enjoying phase 1 immensely this year.
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holiday whobie whatie
Ok, getting ready for Morphe has got me thinking about Christmas even earlier than usual. This weekend before I could make up the crayon costume I had to try out this idea I had for wee ornaments. I was thinking I’d send some along to Morphe and maybe sell some here on the site too. I stamped up some fabric with tasty holiday treats and then made little wee’s (about 3″ tall) out of it. They’re stuffed with polyfil and … More
“Corduroy” quilt idea
**updated bit at bottom**
This is the project that was a bee in my bonnet. The other night I was reading Corduroy to Oscar and Freeman’s illustration of a quilt on the girl’s bed caught my eye.
I love the "randomly tossed down squares" look of it and I thought that it’d be a cute quilt to make out of outgrown kids clothes. The old dress quilt. I have a disproportionately large selection of pinks in my fabric collection so … More
a patchwork robot
first I tried felt, then wee, now patchwork
I had the idea of making a robot in the same was as my dolls and while I don’t want to play robot favorites, this guy is making me very happy because he’s so squishy and huggable.
The patchwork panels on his chest and the stripes on his arms are from a quilt block Amy sent me a while back. I just love brown and yellow together. These fabrics were very close … More
