Archive for the 'Sewing' Category

Raffle Quilt

Published Date: November 11th, 2009
Category: Personal, Sewing, quilts

My goodness, it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything. One of the reasons is we decided to rip the icky, ucky Berber carpet out of our house and lay laminate flooring instead.

Here’s another project–my quilt guild’s raffle quilt for this fall. Obviously, everybody worked on it, but it is [...]

Craft Show Follow-up

Published Date: January 2nd, 2009
Category: Personal, Sewing

Well, I know it’s a bit late, but here’s an update on (and some pics of) my first craft show.
According to all the other vendors, it was a very, very slow day, so I don’t feel bad about only selling 3 items. But I did learn some important things:
Stuff to bring (other than [...]

Swimming Cover-Up

Published Date: October 7th, 2008
Category: Personal, Sewing

The YMCA recently opened a branch here in the boondocks of King George, and my daughter loves the pool. We’re there at least five, sometimes six times a week.
However, the Punkin is a skinny little thing, and only lasts about 20 minutes before she turns blue with cold. And the locker room [...]

Unusual Fabric Source

Published Date: August 3rd, 2008
Category: Sewing, Stories

I have now joined the same club as Scarlett O’Hara and Maria von Trapp and made some lovely outfits from curtains.
Well, just one curtain to be exact. My mother was auditioning this beautiful brown fabric with the embroidered vines for her new bedroom, and I decided it was just too pretty to leave [...]

Hoffman Challenge Finished! The Quilt.

Published Date: July 22nd, 2008
Category: Blocks, Personal, Sewing, Uncategorized

And here’s my final product. I had a blast making it (yes, even all those little flowers), despite the time crunch at the end (that was my fault for not starting it until after recital, which was June 22nd.)

And now back to my previously scheduled life…