Whipped Out

This past week I spent at a conference in New York. I didn’t cook anything, nor did I make much aside from a lot of conversation, a lot of noise at a live band karaoke, and two PowerPoint presentations. The week prior, however, I was up to my ass in creativity but I can’t show [...]

You’ve already seen examples of Jane’s sewing prowess here on the blog, but I’m going to show you another. Early last December I was bemoaning on Twitter that I needed a new passport holder. I travel to Canada once a month and though I do have a passport holder, I wanted a wallet, because Canada [...]

I feel a certain disconnect between the judges and I about our friend Mila, but alas I am getting ahead of myself.
The Challenge: Make a dress for a Fashion Week gala incorporating a really hideous red and white Campbell’s labeled fabric for real women who had some heart related injury.  This was in conjunction with [...]

I missed last week’s episode because I went to the Lion King which was great although I thought the kid who played Simba didn’t actually sing.  This week’s episode
Challenge: Create a high end, signature piece.  The designers go to the Met and see a beautiful display gowns by top designers.
The budget was $500, the most [...]

This is the winter coat I sewed for the tot in 2007. It is based off Ottobre Design Issue 5/2006.
While I love this coat, I wouldn’t ever make it again. First, it is not warm enough to wear in temperatures below about 40 degrees.  Second, it’s hard to get your sleeves into without getting [...]

Will Lifetime ruin another season of Project Runway?  Yes, both Nina and Michael Kors are back as judges.  Heidi looks  great.  But the contestants showed a lack of vision, execution, and style.  A friend commented that she felt that the group was chosen more for their reality tv gifts than their actual sewing talent.   [...]

This winter has been very very cold and my ability to sew cold weather coats is really quite challenged. I actually didn’t even sew up a new coat. Instead, we used the one I sewed the year before.  I can sew up warm coats, but not below zero, frigid as the North Pole, coats. [...]

It’s been cold here lately. On top of that, I’ve been on the computer a lot and the combination of the two makes my wrists hurt a little more from a small amount of tendinitis. I love wrist warmers/fingerless gloves, though all I have is a cheap acrylic pair and they annoy me because the [...]

Ned went to the Science Center with the tot over break and brought home this neat craft project. Essentially you place one image on either side of a straw. When you twirl it between your fingers, the two images look like they are combined in one.

Tot received an American Girl dog (Honey, if you were wondering) for Christmas.  She really wanted the dog bed.

At $18, though, it wasn’t happening. I did think I could replicate it, or even improve upon it.  What do you think?

Materials List:

Two ovals of fabric (one will be your lining)
Two ovals of heavyweight interfacing (I [...]