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I have two projects I’m planning for myself, but I’m procrasinating horribly. One because the fabric is special and I’m scared to cut into it, the other I’ve already cut out, but I’m worried about the fit, so I’m delaying getting to the sewing. Enabling myself to continue procrastinating, I worked on a different project instead.…

I know its still summer (it barely quit raining here last week), but planning for upcoming garments is half the fun of sewing. In the spirit of inspiring  upcoming Fall projects, I bring you this school-girls dress, circa 1969, made by my Grandma E.Back when my Mom was a school-girl and my Grandma was getting kids…

Recently having moved (from one room to another, though with the effort involved it may as well have been across town), I had occasion to go through every item in my possession. Wow. If one word could describe the experience, it would have to be “overwhelming.” I quickly discerned that I had amassed much more…

This is me. I’m trying to model this cardigan. This is my “I have attitude and I don’t care pose.” I was feeling more than a little bit self-conscious, and it shows in the pics that I ended up with. I don’t know why I was feeling especially awkward when I actually got quite a few…

I bought the fabric for this project with the intention of making an apron for each boy. Romeo’s reaction was immediate and opinionated. He informed me that he is not a baby, so he didn’t want a “baby” apron. I tried to diffuse this with some sort of logic in the vein of “if I thought…

This isn’t the most dramatic of pieces. It’s actually about as basic as can be. It’s in a basic navy pinstripe-y color, basic wool-blend something fabric, plain buttons, black lining. Really can’t get more basic than this: And yet, there’s something about this basic piece that, for me, goes beyond basic. Is it the unexpectedness? The…

While record-breaking high temperatures sweep most of the nation, the West Coast has decided to opt out.   That isn’t just my lack of photography skills making the sky look like that. Those are rain clouds. The forcast for today is a high of 75 degrees and rainy, and for the rest of the week alternating…

It was an uneventful-ish weekend. I managed to catch something of a cold, so I was pretty much laying low for Saturday and Sunday. The illness put a kink in my plans for jam-making. Feeling better-ish today, I made a quick trip after work out to a farm where I could get some fresh berries. It is…

I’ll just admit it. I’m having way too much fun with blogging right now, even with as few postings as I’ve done so far. I’ve spent a great deal of my adult life writing, but it was never the kind of writing that anyone outside of a hospital, government agency, or law office would ever get to read, and always…