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Focus – Week 8

By on February 27, 2018

This week was all about the house.  New floors started going in on Monday, so the house was tore apart by Sunday night to get everything out of the 4 rooms. It was so, so messy. In between the floor guys being in the house, I was painting.  Let me tell you, painting with vertigo […]

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Walker style

By on February 25, 2018

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links, which means I may receive a commission if you click a link and purchase something.  Please check out our disclosure policy for more details. I started sewing for another custom fabric group called Affordable Fabrics, and she is in the same area as I am.  This top is part of the […]

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Focus – Week 7

By on February 19, 2018

My accomplishments this week Focus Photo – This week Valentine’s Day landed on Ash Wednesday, when us Catholics are supposed to fast.  So…the kids got some pre-Valentine’s Day, aka “Fat Tuesday”, treats. Sewing – My 52 week sewing challenge for the week was to sew something with hearts.  It didn’t get done, and no #makenine […]

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Black Panther ready

By on February 17, 2018

My kid is a huge Marvel fan, and once he saw the trailer for the Black Panther he was all ready to see the movie.  It looks really, really cool. Unfortunately, he has been a bit sick this weekend, so no movie.  I did get the lounge set sewed up for him with Black Panther […]

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Set sail

By on February 14, 2018

Here is the second set of prints that I sewed up the samples for Fabric Anthropology.  This one relates to Helga in the Vikings series, and is a phrase she said in show. These fabrics are French Terry.  A note about printing colors.  The brushed poly is a synthetic, and the colors are closer the […]

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Battle ready

By on February 13, 2018

So who’s a Vikings fan?? Apparently…we are! Fabric Anthropology is running a Vikings round, and it has some very cool prints.  There are a few panels with just phrases, and then panels with some of the characters on it.  The coordinates include the battle print below, a print with ships (another blog post will be […]

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Focus – Week 6

By on February 11, 2018

Back on plan, dangit! My accomplishments this week Focus Photo – This is a preview of a sew I did for the hubby, but I really love this shot of him laughing.  I don’t really get enough pictures of him. Sewing – This week was pretty much just sewing for strike offs, and not much […]

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Focus – Week 5

By on February 5, 2018

My accomplishments this week Last week was basically the reason I need this challenge and process to go through each week.  Last week was completely UN-focused.  It was one of those busy weeks with a few hatchets thrown at us, just to make it interesting. The girl is improving from her meniscus knee surgery…each day […]

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Another sweater

By on February 3, 2018

One of the reasons why I never think I can go on a RTW buying fast is that it is cold here, and you need sweaters.  I don’t knit sweaters.  I can do a little loom knitting, but that is the extent of my prowess with yarn. Luckily, you can find sweater knits!  This is […]

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