Rae shows you how she takes pictures
I’m a total Photo Snob. It bugs me when photos are grainy or blurry or poorly lit. One thing popular craft, design, and sewing blogs all have in common is good photos and I know that’s probably the first thing that draws most of us to a website. But don’t have the best camera (more on that in a minute) and I’ll be the first to admit my photos don’t always live up to my own expectations. Especially when winter hits here in Michigan and I subject you to dark photos of my creations that look like they were taken in a cave. Which they pretty much were since the sun doesn’t make it up to this latitude for about four months and I begin…
Fall Jumper for Clementine
I finished a fall jumper for Clementine for the Kids Clothes Week Challenge this afternoon and wanted to quick share:
I am a bit of a dreamer when it comes to planning my projects, and I wanted the KCWC projects I chose to be JUST about sewing for my kids, not about getting patterns on the blog or anything else. So it was great to just sit down in my sewing room on Monday and think “what do I want to make for my kids?” and peruse my stash, etc. But of course I ended up wasting my first day’s hour just thinking and planning, so at the end of day 1 all…
Chambray Baby Pants for Baby C
So today is officially Day One of Meg’s Kid’s Clothes Week Challenge, and I’ve been watching that flickr pool like a hawk. Love the stuff there already (esp. these Oliver+S sailor pants!) and can’t wait to add my own stuff. I don’t think this pair of chambray pants qualifies since I made them last week, so let’s just call it inspiration, shall we?
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Book Tour Stop: Stitch By Stitch by Deborah Moebes
I’m so excited to be a part of the Stitch by Stitch Blog Tour today, woohoo! Author Deborah Moebes is here to answer a few of my questions, take us through a normal day in her life, and give us a peek at the book. When I first “met” Deborah online a couple years ago she was working mainly on children’s clothing, but soon after that she switched gears and focused on her online Whipstitch fabric shop and the Whipstitch website. This past year she opened her brick and mortar shop/studio, Whipstitch Lounge in Atlanta, published her book, and had a baby (her fourth). Wow. Isn’t that amazing? I can’t even comprehend that kind of craziness. …
Return of the Bonsai Bag
Yay! I’m so happy to be able to show you a few samples for the Bonsai Bag Sewing Pattern which will be forthcoming. Here they are (along with the brown one I made last year)! I have to admit with fall on the horizon they are a little summery compared to the brown one but I loves thems anyhoos.
That blue Princess and the Pea one there has been in progress for almost a year. I started with a ric-rac trim which I scrapped for pompoms and then got hung up on the recessed zipper and had to tear out the entire thing, but don’t worry, this bag does not take…
Pinkety pinkety pink. Pink. Pink.
I used to be pretty anti-pink for girls but now I find myself not caring so much. It’s gone the way of most of the idealistic rantings of my twenties, meaning now not only do I realize that I’m pretty much a hypocrite but I’m comfortable with it. All that to say yes I do dress my baby girl in pink. And speaking of being a hypocrite, I know I just had a mini-freakout over not having my kids’ names or pictures on my blog a couple months ago, but I went back and forth and then just decided to heck with it I had to show you this picture. (If it’s gone tomorrow you’ll know I had another mini-freakout. In the meantime,…
Oh hello there!
Wow a week goes fast! We just got back today from a week with my parents (and visiting other friends) in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. When I’m on vacation all my sewing goals seem to go right out the window. Which is good, because that means that I’m really vegging out and doing nothing, which is what vacation is supposed to be about. But it’s bad when I want to blog and I realize oh dear I don’t really have anything to blog about. So, random picture instead. This one is a favorite that I took a couple weeks ago but didn’t seem to really “fit” anywhere on the blog. Clementine had just woken up from her nap and…
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