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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 [...]

The two skeins on the left are from the same colorway as the one on the right.
Superstition from FiberOptic.
I just finished the two on the left (the one on the right is from before.) The new skeins are sock weight, and Navajo plied to keep the colors in solid blocks.
I am also working on buttoning [...]

…an image is just way too cool to be ignored, and sometimes I get tired of staring at my own designs. What I’m getting around to saying is that I’ve stolen (cough cough) borrowed a celtic dragon design I found online for inspiration. The original is a lovely tile, my copy is punchneedle embroidery.
I’m using [...]

I don’t know how or if I can actually justify my fascination with punch-needle work. Like everything sincerely fun and cool igolochkoy was horribly abused by those people who do rustic and primitive craft thingies straight from kits purchased “as seen on TV.”
Inevitably there’s a rule of craft tools. When one, such as myself, decides [...]

The collar is now on Lexi’s dress, and the sleeves are basted on but still need to be serged. The pixies’ work ethic seems to leave a little something to be desired since they keep getting distracted by things like watching movies, making soap, taking the dogs for walks, reading books and buying holiday print [...]

I don’t know if you’ve noticed but it’s been a while since I blogged regularly, I really ought to do something about it. I’ve fallen out of the habit.
I haven’t done much that’s been yarn related, which is probably somewhat responsible for the non-blogging that has been going around here lately. Although I am starting [...]

“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?

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.
See all that [...]

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 then [...]

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 [...]