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Little by little

Posted on | October 2, 2007 6 Comments | e-mail | print

Made a tiny bit of progress on the attic, which is also doing business as my sewing room and Owen’s craft room.

still in progress

I get the feeling we’ve hit That Spot in our home improvement, where you leave the windows uncurtained and shelves unpainted simply because you’ve been working on the damn place for weeks and weeks and you just want to use it already. So I just started using it already.

Bib: Bend the Rules Sewingmachine made (hexagonal) patchworkthe backslog cabin

As you can see, I’m only doing tiny projects these days, things I can pick up and put down in five-minute increments, or things I can finish in an hour or less. I just can’t get both boys on a synchronized schedule. Rather, they’re staggered, so when one goes down the other gets up, and they just don’t cut me a break. Too much of my sewing is done at midnight. I keep sewing, though, to get the projects out of my head and because I like to hold the finished item in my hand. I’ll take finished over perfect any day. And also I keep sewing because it’s my favorite form of zen escapism. I am an escape artist.

The bib is from Bend The Rules Sewing, which I highly recommend for anyone who wants to start sewing, and the hexagon is from Machine Made Patchworks Vol. 2, which I find immeasurably inspiring. The last two are of a log-cabin coaster/potholder/trivet I made up, with cotton twill tape loops. I love cotton twill tape loops.

I also started making my holiday ornaments for the ornament exchange I’m in. They are wicked crazy, but I’m having a lot of fun making them. I hope to finish about 50 by the end of the month. Maybe I am wicked crazy as well?

Category: create, house, sewing
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6 Responses to “Little by little”

  1. Lux
    October 3rd, 2007 @ 6:55 am

    de-lurking to say that i am in LOVE with the attic! it looks so warm and cozy and inviting!

    nice work on the sewing projects too!

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  2. Keely
    October 3rd, 2007 @ 12:17 pm

    I wish I had an attic…. and that I knew how to sew. Lucky.

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  3. stephanie
    October 3rd, 2007 @ 7:02 pm

    I think it looks wonderful. The wall color looks great with the carpet and everything seems to go together.

    I know all about tag team napping. Some days it would be like having only one child all day. But it was still one child all day. Hang in there.

    (I love your little projects. I just finished my first ones (totes) from her book, too. Love it!)

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  4. Daisy
    October 3rd, 2007 @ 7:10 pm

    I envy your ability and talent! I don’t sew. I’m hopeless. My mother and my daughter both sew, at least a little. It just skipped my generation completely.

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  5. kelly
    October 3rd, 2007 @ 9:29 pm

    i think you just are wicked crazy.

    i am going to the bib site. i have a brand new sewing machine that has been sitting in my room for three years.

    you are my inspiration!

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  6. vocational school list
    October 24th, 2007 @ 3:50 pm

    man I know the feeling of never ending work. I have been literally fixing up/moving in to my new house for the last two years! Between a hectic work schedule and seemingly spending all of my free time fixing things up, I’ve started to despair and to just move things in, still have boxes piled up in the garage, it will be another 10 years before it’s complete!

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