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near miss cuties

I had a flurry of sewing activity on Saturday and finished up the doll from Friday. Then I decided she wasn’t right and tried something else which turned into this second gal. Her giant hair is awesome (thanks Lyn for the hand dyed wool!) but her body was all wonky. I could tell at a half-finished point that neither of these was what I was going for but I was bound and determined to finish them up anyway instead of just add them to my growing pile of cast off rejects. Now that I have Maggie I’m more motivated to actually finish up the not-quite-right dolls.

ok, back to the drawing board….

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in progress friday

working on making some of my 2D ideas 3D…

space boy for the robots and space toys pattern book

new doll to star in an upcoming project

thanks for the well wishes on yesterday’s post! and hopefully my real-life mug hasn’t scared anyone away. maybe I should make a stuffed toy version of myself to send instead. hmmm…

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jinxes and fabric

Ok, here are some more of those photos I mentioned. First, here’s my haul from the thrift store yesterday. First lucky thrifting day I’ve had in a looong time! You can see the latest additions up close in my vintage fabric set on flickr.

And here’s one of the self portraits I took yesterday. There is an unsettling amount of me staring out at me from my iPhoto now. yikes. So what’s the picture for… I’m going to try my best to not give in to my superstitious nature and actually mention something *before* it happens and not be one bit afraid that I’m jinxing it. (yes, of course my fingers are crossed and crossed hard) What I’m so excited (and nervous about) is that Cutting Edge Magazine is doing a little article on me in their Winter issue. I’m so thrilled about it! And there’s gonna be a fun holiday project in there too that I’m really excited about. I hate not being able to talk about things I’m working on because of fear that they won’t come to fruition. I’d for sure get online and cry in my soup about it if anything did go wrong so I might as well mention it now right?  So anyway, they wanted to include a picture of me as well so I was working on it yesterday. Tim says they all suck because they’re obviously shot by me with my arm out. yeah, yeah. So now we’re going to try him taking my picture. This hasn’t worked out so well in the past, wish us luck!

oh yeah, and thanks modish for leading me to my new favorite shirt by Sigrid Astrup!

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just the one today

I took one gagillion photos today. Scarily most of them were of myself. yikes!
And I have many many more pictures to take… had a great thrifting trip
today and have a ton of new-to-us kids books to click through. But
Boxcar’s awake now so I can just get this one up today – thrifted polka dot fabric,
finished mini quilt and cutie Polish Joli doll from Joy. I love her so much, thanks Joy!!

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thriftcraft, we hardly knew ya

As some of you might have already seen, I’m bringing ThriftCraft back into the fold of Wee Wonderfuls for now. It’s just too overwhelming having 2 blogs. Well actually it’s not. I could just let it sit there unupdated for long periods of time. But I get all twitchy when things are hanging out there like that so for my sanity I made an ‘official’ decision. So now thrifty treats will be over here on the w.w. Here are some of ThriftCraft’s greatest hits

pillowcase magazine caddy

pouf made from tablecloths

knotted vintage fabric and bead necklace inspired by marni

sweaters with ties

pocketbook covers

monster pillow

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no-bonnet sue

I was trying to come up with my own version of the Sunbonnet Sue applique quilt patterns but I just couldn’t work the bonnet in. So instead, here’s my no-bonnet Sue. I dig how she turned out. I’m thinking a few more applique squares and then I need to think of how to work them into a quilt design. Feels good to be getting back to this abandoned color scheme.