i made a zipper pouch for derek’s mom for christmas. we exchanged gifts with his family earlier today. so, now i can post pics here. without further ado: found the totally perfect chick text print while in the mountains last weekend. didn’t notice until i started working on the pouch that the fabric also had […]
making stuff with needles and thread
owl friend.

on thursday, a friend came over so i could “help” her make a handmade owl for her niece. i ended up kind of taking over the project, mostly in the interest of time. but, here’s the final product… she loves orange, so we used my favorite fabric from field study. (and then i immediately went […]
miscellaneous fabric adventures.

so, i’ve been sewing a little here and a little there. it’s hard to keep up with on the blog because some of it is top secret. and some of it seems to small for a dedicated blog post. so, here’s a random mish-mash of what isn’t top secret. sort of. i made a few […]
charlie brown christmas quilts,
volume 2 and 3.

after i made frankie’s top secret charlie brown christmas quilt, i found the charlie brown quilt on fabric.com for so cheap i couldn’t not get it. the problem was, i needed 1/4 yard of all the different fabrics and fabric.com operates in 1/2 yards only. so, i bought enough fabric to make two. one for […]
the not-so-top-secret-anymore christmas quilt

awhile back, i made this quilt for my uncle for christmas. i couldn’t post it at the time, because i think he reads my blog, so i only posted it on flickr. last year, i was chatting with him and he said, “make me a charlie brown quilt” (in mostly those words). i wasn’t sure […]
rainbow mug rug

had a little bit of time to sew yesterday, while anna napped and isaac played in his room. because of a fabric.com order mishap (website inventory vs. actual inventory discrepency), i am at a stand still with a couple of quilts i’ve been working on, so i decided to knock out a mug rug for […]
field study patchwork quilt

so, here’s how it went down: i started quilting around when anna was born. i’m always late to the party on some fabric lines that i can’t really seem to embrace when they first come out. anna maria horner fabrics have been on that short list. when i saw field study, i knew that i […]
buzzer beater (quilt)

i have been participating in a little bloggy contest called 12 quilts in ’12. (here and here, too). the goal (obvioiusly) is to make a quilt each month for 2012. i have been on track so far. i even won a little scrap bag of fabric and a ruler in january. anyone who enters all […]
a dress for the annababy.

after finishing up the granny square quilt, i was looking for a smaller, less time consuming sewing project. so, i pinned about a thousand little girl’s dresses and then picked out one that seemed kind of easy. first, i made one with some fabric that i wasn’t super crazy about. it was a little big […]
some pillows to match…

awhile back, i made this quilt for derek’s mom: when she put it on her bed, it was obvious that some new throw pillows were in order. the old ones were green, and not a green that matched this quilt’s green in any way. so, i picked up some pillow forms from ikea and hacked […]