Creativity | Sewing

Using my stash and saving some moola

By on September 30, 2008

After getting a bit of a shock as to how high our credit card has become, I decided to not buy a new dress for the wedding a few weekends ago.  Since all of my other dresses didn’t fit me.  Which sucks. I delved and dived into my fabric stash of sunken costs and decided to […]

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Creativity | Making baby gifts | Sewing | Sewing for baby

For the baby boy

By on September 23, 2008

Although I have several things I have made lately, I will have to settle for showing just this one thing today because the shots of everything else is lacking.  I made this baby blanket for a friend who had her 2nd little boy in July.  You don’t really need nice warm blankies in July, so […]

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Craziness | Sewing

Knits galore

By on September 9, 2008

Before getting my serger for Christmas last year, I wasn’t a fan of sewing with knit fabrics.  It wasn’t the easiest with my regular sewing machine since they stretched so much and the hems looked all wonky.  Now I have a whole mess of knits that are simply begging to be made into cute little outfits […]

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Creativity | Sewing

A pretty present

By on September 2, 2008

On Saturday one of our friend’s turned 29…again. 😉  I hadn’t made a necklace in a long time so I decided to pull out my beads and see what I had to work with.  The necklace and earrings I made are bronze beads with silver findings.  I  couldn’t just leave it at that, so I […]

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