2010 November

From the monthly archives: November 2010

Linkadoos

Posted November 29, 2010

This random post brought to you by Rae’s brain and TOO MUCH COFFEE!!!

All of the sudden it’s almost December and I’m a little stressed. I haven’t even made a Christmas list yet for me or either of my children and aunties are clamoring. Of course I’m soooo easy to shop for so mine won’t take long (fabric? hellooow?).

If you live in SE Michigan, you do not want to miss the ultrahip Detroit Urban Craft Fair. It’s this Saturday and Sunday (Dec 4/5) at the Fillmore in downtown Detroit. Karen has graciously allowed me to sit at the Patterns By Figgys table Saturday afternoon in exchange for some manual labor stuffing sewing patterns, so I’ll be there too,…

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Action Shots: Clementine’s Green Jumper

Posted November 27, 2010

Please don’t use pictures of Clementine. Thanks!
You can see the original post on this jumper HERE (including pattern information).

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More crafting. More snacks.

Posted November 26, 2010

We had so much fun at this month’s SE Michigan Crafters Meetup that we decided to do it again! Although, we might not need quite so many snacks this time…hee.

Our next meetup will be held Thursday December 9 from 7-10 PM in Livonia Michigan.

This is a child-free evening of sewing, knitting, and crafting hosted by me and Karen of Patterns by Figgy’s (it’s also happens to be Karen’s birthday…woohoo!!!). Bring your own project to work on, sewing machine if applicable, and snacks if you feel like it. You can see more information on the last meetup at this post and pictures from last month’s meetup at this post.

To RSVP:
If you can join…

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White Coverups for Rae and Clementine

Posted November 24, 2010

I do realize that it’s the middle of November and that the odd juxtaposition of fleece hat tutorials with Mexico photos may be a bit jarring for some. But what am I supposed to do, wait until spring to post these swim coverups? Maybe they will help put you in a tropical state of mind.

special thanks to my father-in-law John for taking the

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Am baaaack….

Posted November 22, 2010

OK, so you probably didn’t know I was gone. But we were on vacation last week. Can you guess where? Here’s a clue: I got to wear my new sandals all week.

Also spotted, the suits I made for Elliot last year:

And Clementine’s sunbonnet got plenty of use:

And for the one cooler day we had all week, a nice breezy floral top:

that is ice

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Snowblossom Hat Tutorial by Rae

Posted November 17, 2010

This tutorial shows you how to make the custom-sized fleece hat featured in this post for any size head (adult, baby, or child). The tutorial shows you how to make the hat with flowers but you could easily modify it for a more gender-neutral hat. It can also be reversed if the top of the hat is undone!

SNOWBLOSSOM HAT TUTORIAL

All text and photos are the intellectual property of Rae Hoekstra; you may link to this tutorial as long as you give proper credit, but please do not copy content for distribution or use on your own website. Thanks!

A note about sewing fleece:…

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Blossom Baby

Posted November 11, 2010

It’s getting colder here in Michigan. Pretty soon there’ll be snow, and we’ll be ready.

please do not use pictures of Clementine. Thanks!

This hat is actually a little ridiculous, as it sortof looks like a cabbage growing out of her head. But does it matter if it’s cute? Nah.

Click here for the tutorial

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Want to help us CELEBRATE THE BOY?

Posted November 9, 2010

Hi friends! Today I’m thinking about February. Does that sound strange? Well to me it’s not. Dana of MADE and I have already decided that we’re doing another Celebrate the BOY series in February 2011, and when something so involved has to happen in February you would be crazy to start talking about it in January. You start TALKING about it in October, you start THINKING about it in November, you try to just SURVIVE December, and then in January you actually start DOING some of the stuff you want on the blog in February so that you don’t actually die when it happens. See?

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Crafters + Snacks = Awesome.

Posted November 5, 2010

We had the most fantastic time last night at our first ever SE Michigan Crafters Meetup. I was overwhelmed by the response with only a week’s notice — over 25 people showed up and I don’t know that we could have handled many more as our room was chock full of energetic crafters.

The space was amazing. A number of people commented on how great the room (which normally functions as the church’s youth room) was for what we were doing. There were comfy couches for knitting and handworking and plenty of tables for sewing.

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Another Lickety Split Mini-Bag!

Posted November 3, 2010

One of the benefits of having two sisters is that I have two guinea pigs to test out purses. Both seesters have birthdays in August and September, so I made the Owl Mini-Bag for Kricket and since Elli (by the way, did you see that she’s giving away a new Stitch n’ Bitch book?) wanted a new Lickety Split I decided to make her a Mini-Bag too. She liked the red duck one I made for myself (it’s also shown below) so much I almost gave her that one, but I knew she would never turn down a bag with more pockets. So I did four pockets inside and outside, meaning it is completely reversible. I knew…