crafts

Day 1: squares cut and sewn together, birds cut and pinned on. Day 2: birds hand-sewn on I finished sewing a dress – the first piece of clothing I’ve made in almost 20 years. And, well, it looks like a home ec project. It’s wearable and even flattering, but I’m not ready to reveal it […]

I don’t know why I decided to make these flags. I had fabric scraps, was tired of making birds and handkerchiefs, and wanted an easy-peasy sewing project before I returned to sewing my dress (more on that in a future post). While I’ve had a sewing machine for 20 years, I hadn’t learned how to

I took the zippered clutch class at Stitch Lounge this weekend, and made two new bags. Since I finally learned how to sew a zipper (who knew that my sewing machine had a special zipper foot?), I made a new version of my blue makeup bag. During class, though, I made a couple of simpler

Extra birds, extra branches, so an extra mobile to keep. This pair of birds seems like a happy couple, no? Another green spotted bird gets a branch of his own. I thought getting the balance and weight distribution right would be difficult, but this is actually easy as long as you hang the main branch
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