Oh yeah! Sewing!
After months and months of not feeling it, I finally started sewing a little again, lately.
First, I finally finished the vintage-sheet quilt that I’ve been working on for a hundred years. I used store-bought quilt binding, which is wider than I like, and machine sewed it on the front and hand-sewed the other side to […]
Handmade baby swing cover
I don’t believe baby girls need 100% pink decor, but I thought 100% blue might be a little unfair. I figured that since her room is already painted blue, and so far all her Baby Containment Units are blue, that it would be nice if I tried my hand and updating a cover to be […]
My favorite capitalist pig-dog cookies
Sometimes, when I’m feeling depressed about my carbon footprint and/or the fact that I can be a real stone cold bitch, I like to take a two-hour nap and then go bake some cookies.
These come from Better Homes and Gardens magazine. Those dudes know how to make cookies.
I have to warn you. These are not […]
Furniture makin’
We inherited an awesome table saw this weekend from my awesome in-laws, so Iain decided to make the boys a giant dresser to share.
Not bad for his first time, using, ah, “inexpensive” materials. Now we know he can do it. And apparently I am supposed to actually help with the next project (living room bookshelves) […]
Appalachian Dreamin’
My dudes, I am super busy these days. I picked up a Little Lady job, working with sewing machines, and it keeps me off the streets at night. The laundry produced by two incontinent boys and two pretty clean adults keeps me off the streets in the day time. And one day, one day, this […]
Made lately: just little things
It’s always just little things. I usually work on tiny easy knitting projects at night after the kids go to bed, while Iain and I watch television. They aren’t very taxing, complicated or big; on the plus side, they actually get finished.
But every now and then I can fit in some actual sewing machine time. […]
Acid autumn
I finished knitting myself a quick little neckwarmer the other week (I started it last winter). (This project should not have taken like eight months.)
The fun part about only dressing in solid colors (with the exception of an occasional plaid or stripe) is putting them together in eye-hurty ways.
Take THAT, gloomy skies! And THAT! POW!
Vintage sheet quilt
I started cutting blocks in February of 08, and here it is September of 09 and I’m just now quilting it. Isn’t that cute, how everything takes a hundred years.
Here’s what I wrote when I started:
I drew inspiration from the patchwork throw in Amy Butler’s In Stitches; from the summer throw quilt in Last Minute […]
Meep! It’s Supafab!
AT LAST.
I feel like I have been talking about Supafab for a hundred years. I feel like I have been working on it for even longer. And I feel like I have been thinking about it for at least three or four millennia. Now I finally get to officially share with you my latest project:
Supafab.
This […]
What I’ve been working on lately: Supafab
The last month I’ve been working on designing a few products for a friend of mine, who’s launching a new baby boutique soon. I gathered this assortment of wools and cottons and silks and made it up into a scarf and a pillow so you can see the color palette I’m working on. I just […]
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Oh hey you guys, it's me, Supa. Things I enjoy: talking on my bananaphone, being a nerd, writing, sewing, writing about sewing, giving my husband high-fives, playing Nintendo with my kids, playing with technological gadgetry, knitting, and reading decorating books. Did I write down nachos? Add that in there.
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