Happy Friday! Hmmmm, so it looks like the best I'm able to manage is a once-a-week posting while juggling other projects. I still have a number of completed sewing I want to document here, and I'm starting with this little gift package I made weeks and weeks ago. Unless I record them here, they will be forgotten forever given my spotty memory. In fact, they had completely slipped my mind until I happened to see the photos as I was looking for pictures of another sewing project. Anyhow, every ... Read more
Happy Friday + Giveaway! [CLOSED]
Great Scott! I'm not usually one to go around exclaiming "Great Scott!" but I feel like the occasion warrants it. I did it, my friends! I finished all the interior illustrations for my third book, and though I still have to wrap up the cover, for all intents and purposes, I'm done with the hardest part. I'm not supposed to talk much about it right now, but wow, it feels great to cross that off of my list. As you may have noticed, I put everything else on hold to get the illustrations done in ... Read more
Sewing for a Fifth Grader!!
Holy moly, what is going on with time?? I used to crow about my time management skills, but I've got nothing to crow about now. So summer is officially over, and K is a fifth grader! In the Seattle public school system, the new year begins the Wednesday after Labor Day (except for kindergartners -- they start a few days later). K's been nervous. About a month ago, she asked me to make her a school bag. This caused me to do a double-take because she doesn't ask me to make her stuff anymore. ... Read more
A quick pop-in and a change of heart towards knitting
Hello! I didn't mean to stay away for 3 weeks, but life has a way of creating a vortex of activities that then turn into more activities...but enough with the excuses. I am, in fact, still in retreat mode and haven't really been online much. Instead, I've been spending more time making things and it's been restorative. I have to say: knitters, I finally get it. After years and years of balking at the craft, citing inane things such as "I can't seem to count!" or "I just don't have the ... Read more
Gone on Vacation
Good morning! I am actually still here. In Seattle. Or rather, as I write this we are preparing for an overnight "trip" to a suburb for the last of K's birthday celebration. We will stay in the new-ish McMenamins Anderson School, which should be quite the experience. It's possible that we've gone a tad bonkers for our only child's 10th birthday, but...well, I don't feel too bad about it. We only live once and who cares what other people think, right? I have a feeling she's going to remember her ... Read more