(Topic: Knitting) Hi Friends! Just a quick update today, about a “WIP” (Work In Progress). I’m currently knitting a baby/toddler dress. I’m not concerned with exact gauge, because I’ll just use it whenever I end up with a child that fits in it! I found the yarn at Joann’s, but then it got discontinued by
Category: Material: Cotton
Christmas Tree Skirt
(Topic: Sewing, holidays) Hi Friends! This post is later than I’d hoped… not only is this about a Christmas item that took me till early June to finish, I also had to wait to post until I gave the present to its new owner! I started this in December of 2017, for a friend who
Table Runners
(Topic: Sewing) Hi Friends! This has actually been (and still is) an ongoing project: a friend has a sideboard top that she needs table runners for, but because it has a ledge, the table runners need to fit within the edges. She also wants them for nearly every holiday and season 🙂 So I have
A Little Bit of Embroidery
(topic: embroidery, designs) Dear friends, Recently I got my mother a dishtowel as a gift, but when she unpacked it, realized it was twice the size she usually uses! Easy to fix: most of the towel was blank, so I just cut it in half, and hemmed the edges. Voilá: the part with the design
Semi-Sheer Pink Day Dress
Dear Friends, “How long did it take you to make that?”I hear this question a lot, but it’s not as simple as that. Remember, some of the details that make it take time (such as having matching piping, linings, lower hem linings, hand stitching, hand button holes, etc), don’t necessarily show easily or obviously to
Prayer Shawl 1, and a Sunflower
Dear Friends, One of the knitting groups I’m in, which meets at a church, makes prayer shawls/lap blankets for the VA hospital in a nearby city. I’ve been in that group for close to 2 years, but somehow that project somehow rarely seemed to be on the top of my pile. Well! Yesterday I finally
Pookie’s BooBoo
Hi Friends, I would like to share something with you. A few months ago I PANICKED. I found a place on Pookie’s face, not even at a seam, where there was a tear in his fur (probably a run from when they placed his eyes). Now, as you know from reading this blog, I am
Pocket and Bustles
Hi Friends!!! As you may have seen or heard, I recently went to a ball, so there will be several posts related to that coming up. As I was preparing for the ball, I realized that since a friend was making my ball gown (Sarah Crow, The Preacher Wife’s Gowns and Carr Antiquities (Facebook)), it
Our Tiger Cub’s Blanket
Dear Friends, In my previous post about Dolly Parton, I mentioned that I had made a blanket, and that working on it helped me in my grief journey. This post is sharing that blanket!! It is a cotton blanket, crocheted with just single crochet. The interest is in the variegated yarns and which colors I
Tiger Shirt 1
Hi Friends! I didn’t get a lot of feedback, but the feedback I did get was pretty clear: Keep showing how I make things! Well, ok! I was at Joann’s a few weeks back, searching for fabric for a curtain (didn’t find what I wanted), when I found this MARVELOUS tiger print!!! I thought I’d