Happy Friday! First, thank you so much for all the kind comments last week, I've read them all multiple times!! I was delighted by how many people liked things as they are, and I also appreciated the suggestions. I will work hard on incorporating them! The four randomly chosen Drygoods gift certificate winners are: Dottie, Jing, Beccy and Grace. Congrats!!! Second, the photoshoot was a blast! Keli generously allowed us to use her Drygoods Design studio (did you hear that they're moving to a ... Read more
Sewing for Me: IKEA blouse
Sometimes you just need a simple, white linen blouse. It's been drizzly and bordering on frigid ever since we got back to Seattle, and I welcomed the idea of sewing a long-sleeve top. I've been saving a breathtakingly beautiful and expensive white linen for years, but I couldn't cut into it for this project. I knew I wanted white, and it most definitely had to be linen, but I was afraid I might make an irreparable mistake and I wasn't sure if I could handle that in my current frazzled ... Read more
Birthday Boy
July always seems to be the busiest month for us. Some sort of travel is usually involved, and the birthdays! It's one celebration after another and today, it's M's turn to blow out the candles. "Why did you marry Daddy and not someone else?" K asks me a lot. Partly to tease M, but also (I suspect), because she wants to hear about M's best qualities over and over. The first answer that pops out is, "Because he made me laugh more than anyone else." M has a very particular brand of humor and to ... Read more
Spools, spools everywhere
Ba-chan made it in one piece to Seattle yesterday, and already she and K are thick as thieves. One of the benefits of having a mother who collects everything is that I can ask, "Hey, do you have any vintage-y thread on wooden spools in assorted colors?" And she brings me this: (one errant plastic one snuck in there, I see). I love the faded, peeling, cracked labels, the silk threads with saturated colors. Sometimes, multiple hues are wound onto one spool, and I can envision someone carefully ... Read more
Monday Outfit: Nautical Knit Halter
Good morning! It's so good to be back. We had a fantastic vacation, but there's nothing quite like home. I'm still suspended somewhere between west coast and east coast time zones, and am feeling a bit foggy, but I'm eager to get into productivity mode. So did you know that it's KCW week this week? I didn't. At least not until late last night. That's how out of touch I'm becoming with the general sewing interwebs. What with frenetic book deadlines and all, I'm barely keeping up with regular ... Read more