When I began sewing years ago, I started making burp cloths for all the people amongst our community having babies. It was an easy gift for me to make, it was heartfelt, + I almost always have fabric. I try to take into consideration how the parents are decorating their nurseries, but if they aren’t […]
Part of the Home Ec sewing class I enrolled in back in 2011 was to make a leather purse. It only took 3.5 years but I finally made “project 20”! I love love love how it turned out. Using leather wasn’t that difficult other than I did buy way too much! I was at Joann’s […]
I’ve been in need of a new camera bag for months and thought how easy it must be to make one. HA, was I wrong on that one. I picked out the fabric last spring to match my branding, cut it all out and then let it sit for months on end. As part of […]
After Hurricane Sandy hit, Anthony + I donated lots of things for the families hit hardest at the shore. One of the things that I convinced A to donate was his “prized” tiger blanket (picture something similar to this). I hated it from the moment he brought it home from work in college. Apparently how […]
Last time I did a sewing update post, it was July! That was a wild time, with Anthony and the whole e.coli illness. Then it turned into the fall craziness, holidays, travel, etc. Now that my nephew Randon is in pre-kindergarten, he has gotten into art. Santa brought him an IKEA easel with all amazing […]
I took some time off from sewing but recently I got back into the swing of things (at least a little bit!). It first started when I realized I needed to get my butt in gear and make some items for our neighbor’s baby shower (that I was co-hosting!) about two days beforehand. I had […]