Category Archives: Handmade

and yes, the top is done!

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I realized while reading Amanda Soule’s blog (if you don’t read it, you need to pop over here, right after your done with mine) that I never shared my completed sewing project that I started in … June.  OK in all fairness, it did not take me until November to finish a shirt…it just took this long for me to post the results.

IMG_0509I started with the buttons and buttonholes on the placket…they are my least favorite thing to do so I figured I’d get them out of the way.

IMG_1427This top was a fun one to make, setting in the bib was a bit tricky but going slowly and paying attention (!) it was fine.IMG_2697So please don’t laugh too hard at my photo in the dressing room mirror (at the Gap trying on jeans while the girls were at a birthday party) Charlie is always teasing me about the look on my face in these types of shots.  Anyway, love the top, it’s fun to wear, very easy, love the fabric.  Will definitely make another one but maybe a touch longer (Top is the Tova Top by Wiksten patterns)

I’ve been sewing quite a bit lately, home stuff mostly, hoping to get more posts up soon.  Very happy to be returning to my sewing machine after too much time away!  Thanks for stopping by…what projects have you been working on?

 

 

12.5 hours…not that i’m counting…

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and I’m leaving to head up north to NH for Squam Art Workshop! Squeeee! excited yes!  bummed that it’s p.o.u.r.i.n.g. rain – slightly but the truck is cleaned out and filled with gas, i’m thinking about packing and I’ve decided what to have on the needles while i’m there…

yarn to afghan

was going to start a sweater for Charlie but I cannot find the pattern for the life of me so…afghan blocks it will be!   I have 4 skeins of this yummy yarn so I’ll start with blocks of this and see where it takes me.  Should knit up quickly on size 11’s.

12.4 hours…see you at Squam!

getting ready for an adventure…

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Squam Art Workshop….I have been wanting to go for years, first no $, then no time, then kept missing registration but FINALLY!  I am going…if only for A Taste of Squam this weekend!  Hoping for a full week next year.  Can’t wait, starting to think about what to bring…maybe some of this?photo

There’s a certain special guy who has requested some knitted items (!) no better time to start than at a Ravelry Revelry now is there!

Day after tomorrow!!  yippee!!

If you are curious about what Squam Art Workshop is all about, click on the “Squam” button in the sidebar to visit their site…and maybe I”ll see you there next time!!

ready, set, sew

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Some days (weeks, months) it seems like progress is slow to nonexistent.  Such is the case with my latest sewing project for (wait for it…) myself (!)  *gasp*  I know, really, I can’t think of the last time I made something for myself…it’s been at least since we’ve moved (which is coming up on 2 years)  lots of stuff for the girls, things for the house and for hubby but me?  not so much.

all ready and waiting

Well…I saw this super cute “Tova” top in a post over at Hawthorne Threads blog and thought…this is it!  I ordered up some beautiful cotton lawn from them  (super super nice people with a lovely shop if you are in the market for on-line fabric purchases, hope to visit their actual shop one day!)  I ordered the “Mariella” in grey/pink

Three fitting muslins later, I have cut out the (altered) pattern, picked buttons and found thread to match…then the girls came home from school.  *sigh*  maybe this afternoon?  Fingers crossed friends, fingers crossed.