Right around the holidays, my sewing mojo went on an extended vacation, taking my blogging mojo with it. Knitting has been proceeding apace, but mostly in the form of smaller projects that, with one notable exception, didn’t really seem to “deserve” a blog post of their own. “Oh, I’ll save that and stick it in […]Read Post ›
Himself goes on a fishing trip once a month, like clockwork, regardless of the time of year, and is gone for two or three nights. But about once a year, he goes on a backpacking fishing trip with his brother, for five whole nights. When it comes to making stuff, the 5-day trip is really […]Read Post ›
It’s not exactly one of the Great Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe. Cat owners need more quilts because periodically one of the little monsters will barf on one, and you have to be able to switch it out to launder. Meet Chez and Cressie, co-captains of the American Olympic Cat Barf Team. They may look […]Read Post ›
In the fall an old bat’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of making stuff for the house–as Tennyson might have said, had he given much thought to the fancy-turnings of old bats. (I know that, if you want to get technical, it isn’t fall yet. But it’s my favorite season, so I tend to make […]Read Post ›
It just so happens that Cannabis sativa, along with its other virtues, produces a pretty decent and very versatile fabric called hemp. (And though you can sew on it, you shouldn’t sew while YOU are on it–insert machinery warning here, along with a warning about the pig’s breakfast you are likely to make of your project.) […]Read Post ›
So I assembled, and almost finished, the Non-Congressional Dress last week. I made a few modifications. I have had good luck using bias tape instead of facings for neckline and armhole finishing, especially when I want an unstructured look, so I did that. And I added side-seam pockets. Because if you have a nice, loose […]Read Post ›
The idea of an indigo linen, sleeveless, casual, wear-everywhere dress has been knocking around in my brain for quite awhile now. I had had the fabric (from fabrics-store.com) for some time, but I had fallen in and out of love with several patterns, and finally decided to just keep it simple and throw together New Look […]Read Post ›
So glad to have finished this dress, finally! It had only been cut out for well over a month, and buried under heaps of Lord-knows-what on my sewing table. Really, I was amazed that all the pattern pieces were still there. But they were, so I made it, and here it is. I fell in […]Read Post ›
Even when I am not posting, and even when my sewing mojo has gone completely down the drain, knit just… happens. They will probably have to pry my knitting needles out of my cold, dead hands at the morgue. Then, too, when one is slogging away on an oversized sweater in fingering-weight yarn, there just […]Read Post ›
We had a rather lovely late winter here in the Albuquerque area, with lots of days in the 60s and 70s and plenty of our trademark sunshine. We even had our first knitting group lunch of the season on the outdoor patio of a favorite local restaurant well over a month ago. So naturally I […]Read Post ›
