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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Bookmarked lately
I finally installed a del.icio.us/Firefox plugin and while I was at it, figured I’d share some things I’ve bookmarked lately.
etsyhacks to make selling on etsy easier
Paper Piecing ~ Hexagons — how to hand-piece hexes on the go (tried this last night and made two coasters)
Bringing Outdoor Plants Inside For The Winter
Value Quilts Tutorial
Paper Piecing Block […]
How Splityarn was re-branded
Photo by Splityarn.
Splityarn is one of the flickr users whose account I stalked last winter when I was getting all knitty again. Then my knitting obsession faded (as all my obsessions do: they wax and wane and wax again) and I did a massive contact purge and I fell out of that loop. (Knitting pun? […]
Summer Skirt Sew-Along
I saw on the Sew,Mama,Sew Blog that there will be a Summer Skirt Sew-Along on the SMS forums. Thanks to Swaptree, I have a copy of Sew What Skirts coming at me in the mail this week. I’m think now would be a good time to make a 70’s-ish, dark denim version of this wrap skirt: […]
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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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