Fun new acquisitions

I’ve been kind of out of things the last couple of weeks(muscle relaxers do make me loopy), but I got some fun things in the mail and I finally feel up to posting about them.
yarn:

These are hand dyed yarns from Frog Hair Fibers, an Etsy shop.
I found some vintage patterns at Out of the Ashes:
This [...]

I finished the slings!

I got the slings made today for Em and Mandy, thanks to this excellent tutorial from Michelle .
Em’s sling is the one on the left, Michael Miller fabric, a toile with children playing for the outside, and the alphabet(known as “scrabble” fabric by MM). It is directional fabric, and I put the lining in the [...]

I got some actual sewing done!

So with letting the girls have the week off of school, I got a lot of sewing done. I found this red fabric at Salvation Army, and figured it would make a nice muslin if nothing else, for a gored skirt. I like how it turned out. Still have to hem it, but my ace [...]

The sewing mess challenge

Debbie over at stitches and seams    mentioned the challenge to show our sewing areas “as is”. I’m game. Here it is:

I don’t have a sewing room anymore, just a space in my bedroom. And I spent the last couple of days cleaning things out, so it isn’t as messy as it was. This first picture [...]

Spring sewing

Well in spite of feeling very technologically impaired, I am going to keep writing. I looked at the Simplicity website today, and found gobs(real word) of patterns that I want to use in the next several months. Some for the pg daughter and daughter-in-law, some for the babies, some for the littles, and even a [...]