(like the rod stewart song)
i'm an elder millennial living in the bay area who loves dark beer, the environment, and sewing for the tiny humans in my life.
i'm up in portlandia for a few days to see my favorite kindergartner and second grader. today we had a pretty awesome walk to school.
more sewing for skills, and today we're all about means to fasten fabric: buttons and snaps.
my obsession with making play food for maya and neela continues...
today i am going to show how i made some play bow tie pasta for them.
the supreme court gives the best birthday gifts.
this year when i woke up on june 26th i found they had ruled that marriage was a right for all americans. that night i opened my present from victor's mom: a package of beautiful fabrics, including this rainbow print. how fitting!
you saw those snazzy labels i made for my sisters's candles? well today i'm going to do a tutorial for how i made them.
like many in the sewing world, i am on a constant quest to sew my stash. i've even gone so far as to proclaimed my desire to have less fabric all together, and consider myself am midway through a major two year fabric diet.
so today i'm going to share some of my favorite patterns for busting my stash.
vic and i had a super bowl party this past weekend. he spent a week deciding on the menu and the better part of saturday prepping food (don't feel bad for him, he loves cooking).
meanwhile my contribution was cleaning the house, putting the cat in an amazing bow tie, and picking up some flowers from a shop in rockridge.
then I decided to start a new project three hours before guests arrived.
I have quite a few fabric crushes these days. so indulge me for a minute.
(fair warning this is a lot of cotton + steel...and may end with a fabric purchase.)
more sewing for skills today as I talk about piping which is one of my my favorite ways to accent an outfit.
fitz, who only recently developed the ability to get everywhere in the apartment, had been enjoying hiding amongst my patterns.
what's the ultimate sewing project for little girl apparel? I'll give you three hints:
okay it's not a film, but v and I have been watching this Amazon series.
set in 1962 it's an alternative version of history in which natzi germany and japan had won World War Two. America fell and is now split into the japanese pacific states (west coast) and the greater natzi reich (east coast and mdwest) with a neutral zone in the middle (rockies). the main character juliana crain is a san francisco woman about my age who lives with her Jewish boyfriend until she joins the rebellion.
if i haven't stated it before, i'm officially jumping on the dropcloth sampler train because earlier this week i finished by second dropcloth sampler in a month.
surprise! i've continued with making my family napkins and candles!
i made this set of napkins for my sister sammie, also known as maya and neela's mom.
I've previously spoken about my mission to sew all the oliver + s patterns. today I'm going to share how I came to acquire them.
when i was little my mother collected old nancy drew books. while other kids were reading goosebumps or the baby-sitters club, my sisters and i enjoyed nancy's adventures in her blue roadster.
if i had one regret about my 2015 sewing it's that I didn't make enough for my older nieces nora and etta. at 5 and 7 they are a tad pickier than 3 year old maya and baby neela.)so I promised myself the first project of 2016 would be for them.
when oliver + s announced their pattern mash up challenge I knew I had to try it. so over the next few weeks of commuting i developed a vision came together that combined four different oliver + s patterns.
