Good morning, friends! I should just call this the month of tees and be done with it. It's all K seems to wear and they're so easy to whip up that I default to sewing one form of knits-based top or another. These two tops are sewn from the Cali Faye Perri Pullover pattern. I've used this once before in an impractical metallic faux leather combo, which of course has never been worn since last May. I actually made the burgundy one back in September of last year and completely forgot about ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
Happy Friday! To all our lovely SVE participants, how's your planning going? I'm currently trying to get a few other projects wrapped up, but am looking forward to diving in to gift-making and have outsized ambitions to ship a package out before the end of next week. Will it happen? We shall see... One of the projects I finally checked off was tidying our monstrous paperwork. It was a bear, I tell you, but oh-so-necessary since I had to hunt down info for health insurance and found the state ... Read more
Giveaway! Sock and Glove Charmingness [CLOSED]
Is there anything cuter than sock puppets? Probably, but Miyako Kanamori has taken the heart-melting factor up a notch with her book Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves. I am continuing with my life-changing tidying among other things, and as much as I love this book, I've had it since 2007 when it first came out and I've looked at it twice, if that. The photography, the projects, the sweet story-telling element of it -- they all make me smile, ... Read more
Monday Outfit: Frogtastic
Happy MLK Jr. Day to those of you in the US! K has the day off so I'm quickly rattling off today's rather crafty garment. Post-Christmas, K became the proud Mama of two fire-bellied toads. Meet Camouflage (or maybe this one's Muddy, we can't tell): Here's K pretending to be amphibious: The frog craze has set in, and K is all about these little green critters. Speaking of critters, no one warned me that they eat crickets. This has made me very unhappy, particularly when we had a ... Read more
Happy Friday + Randomness
K made me a ring. She glued one of those aquarium glass beads to a broken metal band that she scrounged up from somewhere. Then she tucked it inside a clasping shell container and wrote a note. Because this came in the mail: I probably don't have to tell you that I became quite emotional. I had a moment of terror before I opened the box. "What if I hate it? What if I feel disappointed?" I don't, I wasn't. No, not even close. There are too many things I love about it to list them here. ... Read more