Posted in crafting, in progress, recycling, tagged reuse, recycle, egg cartons, old candle wax, dryer lint, firestarters on July 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
No, in fact it’s four months worth of dryer lint. Pretty, no?
Mom has a new house, with a new fireplace… and every fire needs some method of ignition. Back when we lived in California, most of our friends lit their fires with fancy red buttons beside their fire screens, or a few by remote. But [...]
Posted in in progress, recycling, sewing, tagged wedding dress, reuse, maternity modifications, recycle, ripped up, thrift on July 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Geez Louise! I managed to get a lot done today! It definitely helped that I had someone here to help me with the kids while I cleaned up… I never heard of a Mother’s Helper before I moved to this neighborhood, but I have to say, it is an amazing concept!!
Last night I ripped into [...]
Posted in in progress, sewing, tagged wedding dress, polyester, silk, beads, memphis george, washing, ripping, reuse on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today, after finally locating my seam ripper, I began cutting into the wedding dress which has been languishing in the corner waiting for some attention. I started by removing the beads.
When I bought the dress, I thought it had a minimal amount of beading. When I sat down to remove all of them, I noticed [...]
Posted in garter stitch, in progress, tagged koigu, lorna's laces, saartje bootee on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have actually accomplished some knitting this week!
A wee pair of Saartje’s bootees–free pattern!–to match the Koigu BSJ! They are teeny teeny teeny… I’m actually wondering if I might have to make a slightly larger pair just in case these are too small. I’m also thinking that it might be nice to have the Koigu [...]
Posted in for baby, in progress, tagged BSJ, lorna's laces, maizy, preemie on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hopefully I’ll be able to bang this post out before my battery dies. Actually, these days, my personal battery is running rather low and is becoming more difficult; not such good news as I’m only half way through the second trimester and this is when I’m supposed to be feeling my best. Yug.
I’ve gotten the [...]
Posted in for baby, in progress, news, spinning, tagged BSJ, lorna's laces, its a girl we think on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s been almost a month since I’ve posted! I just don’t understand where the time goes as I stand idly by. OK, maybe not so idly… taking care of a one and three year old, being pregnant with our third, chasing after two dogs, trying desperately to keep ahead of the household mess, and getting [...]
Posted in in progress, tagged baby clothes, recycling, wedding dress reuse on June 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Almost four years ago, I got married to a pretty fantastic man. We had been together for quite some time, moving across the country twice, breaking up once or twice, and had considered the matrimony question several times. Finally, we took the plunge, and the two weeks before the final year of my Master’s [...]
Posted in in progress, tagged secret project, twisted alpaca, yarn monster on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear readers,
I apologize that the three of you who read regularly have not had any new posts to read, but the shameful truth is that I haven’t had the energy to continue any fiber projects at the moment. None. My husband finally understands how bad things have been once I explained to him that I [...]
Posted in for baby, in progress, set-up, tagged bad pattern, blocking, debbie bliss, matinee coat, schematics, wet steam on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, it was a choice between finishing up the laundry and finishing up the sweater…
I chose to add a new post.
Last night I attempted to block for the first time. I finished up all the pieces of the matinee coat, and as I said on a previous post, it is the first project [...]
Posted in in progress, purchases, tagged debbie bliss, Lantern Moon, matinee coat, Pattern Problems, Woven Bag on April 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m making excellent progress on the matinee coat… I think I’ll be done with the sleeves later this afternoon since I only have two more inches to go. I’m not really happy with the sizing at the moment–the sleeves seem entirely too wide–we’ll see how it looks when it at comes together. I really wish [...]
