When I sewed the last felt spot onto Owen's hat on Monday, I kinda sorta burst into tears. I'd made my kid's first Halloween costume, dude. I felt like a god.
Granted, I had a lot of help.
Help #1: The pattern for the hat, by Michele Wilcox for Coats & Clark. (It's intended to be...
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The weather has been so gorgeous here the last couple of weeks, it's all I can do to sit inside and work. It's like a proper northeast autumn – blue skies, crisp air, turning leaves. It's usually grey by now here in the Pacific Northwest, which makes outside even more irresistible.
And to top it...
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I finally made Owen some clothing. It was killing me not to have made him clothing. So now I won't keel over!
I blogged about the project over at CrochetMe.com, so I'll just nudge you on over there.
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I discovered Shwin & Shwin's quick tutorial for an upcycled t-shirt scarf a while back on Pinterest, and I finally tested it out on an old t-shirt this morning. The verdict: ACE.
One old t-shirt, a pair of scissors and twenty minutes and I was done. It's soft and comfy, and as an added bonus...
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When I got my iPad over the summer, I also got the case Apple makes for it. It's a handy design. Kind of like a book, but also like a stand – there's a slot on the back that you can fold the cover back into so it's propped up. Handy! The only thing...
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A few months ago on a slow work day I bought a bunch of screen printing supplies off Craigslist. I'd never actually screen printed anything, but I was seized by the crafts monster that lives in my occipital lobe, constantly searching for good crafty bargains.
In June at the Summit of Awesome I took Christy...
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Last summer we opened up the wall between our living room and what's now kind of like a sub-living-room, or a den. Our 90-year-old Craftsmen bungalow feels much more airy and open now, and I've enjoyed the excuse to redecorate these two front rooms (and no, I don't mean to imply that we've actually...
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