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I adore the work of Mariska Karasz. She made her embroidery into art (seen at Embroidery as Art), but what’s less well known is she had also been a fashion designer. A real inspiration of mine. Images like this just make me happy: She wrote an embroidery handbook that just makes you want to get down [...]
One of the things I enjoy the most about what I’m working on is finding and testing new materials. I don’t mean fabrics, exactly, although that’s part of it. I mean finding things with ‘ingredients’ that are uncommon, even surprising. For example, hemp blend fabrics. I think these are my current favorites. Hemp is, as [...]
… of developing a brand new quilt based on the colors of the blanket, I’m making more hexagon-ish units to for a lap quilt that started out with this star. My one problem with piecing a quilt is that it really makes me want to buy more fabric, regardless of whether I need it or [...]
It takes me forever and a day to come up with color schemes for quilts. So I decided I will try to record things with color combinations I like. This blanket, for example, which belongs to a friend I visited with E. E thereafter walked off with a container of lentils that she played with [...]
There’s this pile of stuff on my work table. It’s a different pile every night. Daytime is when I can do emails, with wholesalers, friends who give me ideas, family, anyone. When I acquire supplies. Nighttime? I sew. We’re getting ready to do a Kickstarter. But that means there are more samples to be sewn, [...]
Can you tell that my business associate in Hungary, on skype on my computer screen, also has a baby on her lap. This really is a business meeting, despite the puzzle pieces lying about. I’m so glad that my business partner from here in the U.S. took this picture because I’m sure that in a [...]
[I wrote this then promptly forgot about it and left it in drafts. It's short and way 'overdue' but I'm publishing it for the sake of some form of completeness.] They’re learning how to play together. Work together. They mean well, too well sometimes: E would keep trying to give Z something Z is done [...]
I forgot to post last night and nearly forgot today. It was a busy day again. After it was done the apartment looked like the cavalry hit. Or a tornado. Maybe both. But it was just the result of a constant effort to had the children something to keep them occupied so that we could [...]
After getting to the end of what one planned to do, there is always the question: now what? I like how the star below turned out but now I wish I’d fussy cut some of it. I said yesterday I planned to make miniquilts but now I wonder if I couldn’t make something bigger out [...]
Since for work I mostly make stuff, I relax by – you guessed it – making more stuff. Just different stuff. I really love quilts and have been slowly learning how to make them. A friend lent me this book and I had the idea to make one of the quilts out of it (one [...]
Lately I’ve been amusing myself with making clothes with vintage patterns. Ones from the late 1920s and early-to-mid 1930s are my favorites. There was such elegance to cuts of the period, to the draping of fabric, and – last but not least – to the pattern illustrations. Although I must say the patterns themselves are [...]
Today was strange. Well… technically it was yesterday that was strange, which means I missed the deadline for today’s photo and post, but in much of the U.S. it’s still yesterday so I’m going to act like this still counts. Everyone woke up really early then went back to sleep and woke up really late. [...]
… from home, with two very young children around, looks something like this: today, we were finalizing the details of our first set of products because we had to place an order with a foreign supplier this afternoon. In this scene, my older daughter Z is eating salami and watching the little mole on her [...]
Making things is something I’ve always really enjoyed. Whenever I could sink into working on a project I’d feel okay, whatever else might have been going on in my life. My husband is the same way. Z and E too, no matter how young (3 and a half and 19 months). Which makes me wonder [...]
I’m not much for New Year’s resolutions but the one thing I did resolve to do is breathe more life into this here blog again. I follow Malka Dubrowsky of a stitch in dye, and about a week ago she started doing a a pretty cool thing (originally from here) designed to accomplish just like [...]
I’ve been very busy. So busy that by the time I get round to having time to post photos or write something in the evenings, I’m just plain too tired to do it. I think I need to grow a few extra hours in the day for more sleep. I can’t quite say what I’m [...]
Haven’t been here in a while. I’m having trouble finding time for picture-taking, though I’ve been making things both quilty and garment-like. With a friend we decided to make this quilt from the Block Party book together, with one block due every Friday for show and tell. I still have to pick my color scheme; [...]
Here’s my first block for the Bloggers BOM quiltalong organized by Jackie of Canton Village Quilt Works. I love the fabrics and just realized that I really, really want to get more of the background, so I can make a whole quilt with it, and I have no idea what it actually is… I found [...]
Since I really like the pattern, I made another Violet: You can also see my little helper as she tries to knock down the dress form. I confess that for this version I changed the pattern to the point where it’s a mere sliver of it’s former self: I left off the collar, made the [...]
This summer I tried really hard to get back to sewing for real. I find summer sewing to be easy: you can use light, airy cottons, easy to get through the sewing machine, and prints, prints, prints. I don’t actually wear as many prints as my admiration for them would warrant. My favorite summer project [...]
Last week I finished a quilt top for a friend’s baby. I’m rather late with this quilt – the baby’s 3 months old… but maybe it’s better late than never, no? Here it is: It’s a New York quilt for a New York boy of a New Yorker mom – I always think of her [...]
This blog has been dormant for a long time – a half a year or so? Something like that. It’s been a nice record of a particular period of my life but as all blogs, it left a lot out. Old posts aren’t here anymore because it didn’t feel quite right to leave them in [...]
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