tiny bridges

After reading this post on the Artful Parent about recycled homemade books I was a little obsessed with the idea of making some, but I wanted to start with something simple. I kept thinking about Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s comment about being inspired when she recycled the tab from her teabag. Well it’s summer, [...]

Very simple dress made for Fiona after her 4th of July dress took until the 7th and didn’t come out exactly as planed. This is basically a slightly gathered rectangle of fabric with slightly gathered rectangular straps. If I were to do it again I would have left a lot more fullness in [...]

For the past few weeks I’ve been trying to finish some of the piles of half-done projects lying around, and I’ve been making progress. (Although it may be a two steps forward, one step back scenario, since I’ve also started some new projects).
So far I have:
Sewn up and fulled my pumpkin
Hooked and attempted to [...]

When we had finally finished the holidays around here (seriously, it lasts from Fiona’s birthday in November until the second week of January, which gets a bit exhausting) I started in on my stack of mending, as part of my effort to clean up and reorganize. There were several not very interesting, but good [...]

Okay, it’s almost two months since Fiona’s birthday, and that means it’s time to post about her birthday dress.

This was one of the secret projects I was working on, and things just got too crazy with the holidays to post about it. I used the tutorial here as a rough guideline to start (as [...]

So mystery project #1 was a birthday dress for Fiona. Due to technical difficulties (namely, I decided that I should add a few extra inches here and there “just in case”) there are no pictures yet, but I’ll do a full birthday work up for next week.
Happy leftover day!

Top secret projects in the works

Fiona has outgrown some of her hats from years past and I’m not sure she’s really ready for a scarf so I decided to make her a scoodie! I really love the tutorials on that site, especially since the projects are largely things I can see us actually using. Also, there are lots [...]

When I asked Fiona back in August what she wanted to be for Halloween, I didn’t really expect her to stick with her first answer. But she wanted to be a witch from first to last.

When I started going through the pics from that night, I realized I don’t have a single shot [...]

It’s really here. Fiona and I have been watching the school buses in the mornings, she’s started an acorn collection and I’m wearing long sleeves and contemplating a sweater.
A few weeks ago, I figured it was time to actually make the summer dress I had planned for her. It [...]