I’m in DC this week for a work trip, which I do 3-4 times a year. I always stay with my cousins who live in Alexandria when I’m down there, and my cousin Michele usually squeezes in a trip to one outlet or another while I’m there… Today she took me to the Crate and…
I made this blouse Memorial Day weekend this year, and I didn’t get around to blogging it until now. My brother does a big memorial day camp out on my family’s farm every memorial day, so I was out in western MA for that. BUT the weather was really abysmal that weekend, so I spent…
It turns out my ill-advised love affair with chiffon is not over. It’s a tricky minx- slithering around, fraying every which way, bunching up behind the needle. I keep trying to swear it off…. but then I wandered over to windmil fabrics on my lunchbreak yesterday and saw these gorgeous blue stripes. So I thought…
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I bought a new sewing box today. It’s a vintage makeup case from Sears. I bought it to take to the six week long sewing class I’m taking this summer. The first class is tomorrow and I’m pretty stoked. I don’t know what to expect as the website was pretty confusing. I think it’s a…
I’ve only recently returned to the world of sewing. My mom, a prolific quilter, taught me how to sew as a kid, but my impatience and total lack of interest in mainstream sewing patterns led me to abandon it for years. I got into a lot of other crafty pursuits- knitting being chief among…
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