Archive for January, 2009
I can has pants?
After getting the back wall to have electricity again, I was able to make the Amy Butler lounge pants about which I was talking yesterday. Please excuse the ratty green college hoodie. They’re lounge pants, ya know? Click to embiggen.
I made the large size, as I’m in between the large and medium, and they fit [...]
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Tags: amybutler, pants
as per request
Here, Sheryl, are the pirate pillows about which I was talking. I’ve added in Matt’s Christmas Ninja Turtle pillows too. [Head on over to my photobucket account to see them bigger.]
It only takes a yard to make a pillow case, and they look way more impressive than they really are. The longest it’s ever taken [...]
Filed under: Project: Purse, sewing | 2 Comments
Tags: blue, fabric, green, margaret bag, pants, pillow case, pirate
This past Saturday, Matt and I went to the JMU v GMU basketball game at my alma mater, GMU. [Matt went to JMU]. Neither of us actually went to a sporting even for our schools when we were students there, so it seemed appropriate that we would go to one when both schools were playing. [...]
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Tags: pink
Some stuff from stash, and not
Making little lap quilts and things-to-put-on- leather-seats-in-the-car-to-keep-my-bum-from-freezing-off present nice stash busting and quilting technique opportunities.
Enter a zigzag quilt. I got the idea from Nettie at A Quilt is Nice. I loved the sea theme she had, and thought that I had something in the stash that would work as a prototype. The turquoise is leftover [...]
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Tags: lady eleanor, zigzag quilt
Wow! I guess it is- or it’s at least close enough to count.
I usually spend the first few weeks of the new year assesing. Life, relationships, and stuff.
Stuff is what I’m working on right now. Crafting stuff, personal stuff, the stuff we own. The past year meant a lot of moving and rearranging for quite [...]
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