Whipped Out

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 [...]

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 [...]

My husband’s parents’ 40th wedding anniversary is this coming week, so Hubby and I decided to make a family dinner for them. We had them come to us because if we went there, my mother in law wouldn’t leave the kitchen. If they came to us, we’d cook and clean and she could play with [...]

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 [...]

When I first saw the boxy pouch tutorial, I thought it would be a delight to make but I wanted it to be lined and have the handle like the one I saw at Burda Style.   Further, I needed my boxy pouch to be larger. I didn’t know how a pouch 4.5 inches long, [...]

This year, I made teacher’s gifts using some cute craft tutorials.  First up is the journal cover.

I used this tutorial from Bloom.  While the tutorial doesn’t say this explicitly, there is no lining inside the pocket panels.  You can add a lining, but it makes it terribly difficult to turn inside out.  I don’t recommend [...]

Shortly after getting Julie, the American Girl, the DH became obsessed with making a storage trunk for her. This trunk is 21″ tall by 11 3/4″ wide by 11″ deep. On the one side it can hold an 18″ doll and the other contains space for clothes to hang and a small [...]

Last week I made the mattress and my DH made the new bed for our newest member of the family, Julie.  Julie had no bedding, however, and a mattress without sheets and a comforter along with the requisite number of pillows is fairly worthless.
I had made the tot’s bedding and for some reason (read: neurosis) [...]