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It’s not that horrible, at least that’s what I tell myself. I tell myself a lot of things when I’m sewing, things like “I’m never doing another craft show again.” (Lie.) Things like “This is so not worth the effort.” (Lie.) and “Next year I’m just going to buy gifts for everyone and not worry [...]

I can’t quite call the bits ‘dismembered’ because they have not been previously membered, but here’s the first batch of kitty parts. The pattern is simplified, instead of four pieces for the front and back body– it’s now two, the limbs are all the same length, and the ears have been enlarged. I cut and [...]

365 days a year there’s a particular store that carries white worsted weight cotton yarn with green and red dyed bits, on the cone, for just under $7 a pound. I’m not terribly fond of it, I don’t ever consider buying it until I need something that is Christmas themed, and then when I do [...]

“We come in pieces. Take us to your litter.” My husband said “Someone took all the sunshine and tubby toast and left these dead bodies.” Lexi said “Ok, my kitties.” Josey said “Why don’t they have tails?” Greta says “…” And that about sums it up doesn’t it?

Ooh I’m bad. I went to Craft Warehouse to buy a tool, I was at Wally World to buy poly-fil. Either place I could have bought the paint I need to finish the table– for some reason I had a little too much focus on the eyelet punch and poly-fil (usually my problem is buying [...]

Yesterday was warm and lovely, today was dreary. Lucky for us we chose to do our dyeing yesterday and not today. Since I currently don’t have the acid for protein dyeing I amused myself with doing a couple of yards of linen. Although I swear I put more dye on the first one, I must [...]

When I walk away from my sewing table, I’m never quite sure what I’m going to find when I come back. Sometimes entire projects go missing. Sometimes there’s a shirt missing a button or two laying on top of my current project. And sometimes there’s a robot armed with my shears. A sewing robot. Genius. [...]

The only thing between me and the path to certain destruction right now are gallon sized ziplock freezer bags. My personal stash of large ziplock bags is running dangerously low. I am terrified. I managed to get through the next two steps of sewing, so my next step is filling the sachets with potpourri and [...]

I’ve spent much of the day sewing, which is especially fun when Josey is doing his schoolwork because I’m more inclined to be interested in what he’s doing as opposed to what I’m doing. I’m making a plethora of little tea bag shaped satchets for a craft fair I’m scheduled to go to. So far [...]

I’m working on the Goldfish from Kumiko Sudo’s book Omiyagi. I started on it sometime last night and for some reason the fact that I have a camera totally escaped me, so while there aren’t the intimate details, I have a few somewhat in progress pictures to share. I am doing all of the sewing [...]