Still chugging along with kcwc! Have you seen all the cute stuff in the flickr pool?
I have one more dress planned. Just need to run out for elastic thread. Then I think that'll do it for me. I made this top yesterday while Phoebe was at school, without a pattern. I had just a fat quarter of that beautiful ballerina print and was happy to have a good use for it. And Phoebe is happy with it because … More
Here are the little shorts I made for Phoebe. They're to go under skirts. I don't know what to call them. Do they have a name? I've been calling them shortie shorts. Phoebe was very pleased with them and didn't take them off for 2 days. Just realized they were on under her jeans. I told her to take them off and got the quote of the day, "don't blog my pants!"
They were super fast to make, edges are … More
Are you guys sewing for the kiddos this week? It's Meg's Spring 2012 KCWC and I'm trying to keep up! I've got a nutto week so I'm trying to sew as much as I can today and then stretch it out over the week on the blog. Sadly I spent all morning on one dang pair of shortie shorts. But I finally figured those out and I think I've got maybe a few tops left in me. Last night I … More
the bluebird of happiness 🙂
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She might be the first in a new set of Stitchettes. Not sure yet, letting her sink in.… More
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Every year I get a little obsessed with the special issue sixlets in Spring colors. I eat way too many of them because I always have them out because they’re just so dang cheerful. So I made it into a skirt for Phoebe, because I can’t eat that!
This is what’d I’d call an “art skirt”. Not really something practical, nothing that can be washed. I didn’t use fabric paint. A just-for-fun frivolity based on an easter candy. That sort … More
A captivating gang of 24 huggable, lovable creatures to sew—from classics like Margot, a topsy-turvy doll, and the button-jointed teddy bear Bjorn Bjornson, to irresistible Evelyn, a wool felt inchworm decked out in mod glasses and a kerchief, and Koji, a fiercely cute spiked softie monster. There’s something for everyone here—from kids to grown-ups and from beginning sewers to advanced dollmakers. Published by STC Craft, August, 2010.
