Hi there! Welcome to all you new eyes that are coming here via Sew Liberated. I hope you poke around and enjoy your stay…
and come back often.
Our main computer has totally crashed and my resident computer genius is out of town for the week, so I’ll probably be quiet here for a few days. I’ll still be on top of e-mail and SweetPod pattern orders, though.
Come back next week because I’ll for sure have some sewing and knitting and a weekend in the mountains to show you!
While I was designing and writing the SweetPod pattern I wrote many an e-mail to my blog friend Meg at Sew Liberated. She was so kind and gracious to answer all of my questions and help me along the whole pattern designing and writing process. Though she couldn’t fit being a pattern tester into her book-writing, pattern designing, new baby life we decided we’d do a trade. She cut the pattern pieces from fabrics she loves (left over from book projects), sent them over to me, and I sewed them all together. Now I’ll have a little advertising button over on the right hand side of her lovely blog. Check out her post about her carrier. Finn! in that hat!! I can’t stand the cuteness!
It’s made with an Echino print for the decorative panel and a luxurious silk/ hemp charmeuse for the lining and sleeping hood. Lovely and fun for that mama, and that chubby little boy.
I’m glad you like it, Meg!!
We’ve had some balmy near 60 degree weather, so our little toddler has been trying out his new skills.
He didn’t want to have anything to do with me holding his hand or helping him up when he fell. The shoes, the dry grass, the uneven ground, the rocks, they were all a whole new set of challenges to be conquered.
Guess who won…
My in-laws got me a stack of craft books for Christmas. I’m going to show you one today.
Patchwork Style! This book has been making the rounds in craft-blog-land for years as a Japanese craft book, but now it’s in English. Japanese craft books do have super clear diagrams and beautiful photographs which make them easy enough to work from if you don’t mind using a little guess work– but being full of words with a recognizable alphabet in a language I can actually read makes this one much, much better.
I was intrigued by the way Suzuko Koseki says to piece log cabin blocks by basically foundation piecing onto your batting. Simple, and you quilt as you go. I tried it out with this simple project:
a patchwork pillow. It’s a great way to use up treasured tiny scraps of favorite fabrics .
Since I only have one it keeps moving around from place to place. If you can’t tell, I like it so much it even became my new header here.
It does need, at the very least, a partner. My goal is to have that done in time to welcome our new couch into the house at the end of the month. If only the IRS could be faster…