Monthly Archives: December 2010 2010 was a fantastic year. It had its ups (Ellie’s birth), its downs (when Nic totaled the Jeep two days before Christmas) and lots of working and sewing in between. It was a great crafting year for me–in January I spent a lot of time knitting baby items for Ellie, spent the spring working on […]  Can I just say that I love having two? They played in the play room so long this morning that I got two more blocks done before lunch! I am going to be good and finish up the last apron and Christmas gift (yes–I still have one Christmas gift to go) but these are SOOOOO […]  Last night after everyone went to sleep I spent some quality time downstairs with hulu plus and my sherbet pips stack! After I made the second block (the doggie one below) I went back to redo the first block. I wasn’t a big fan of it when I finished it, and I realized I wanted […] Fact: For four years and ten months, I was the preferred parent. If there was whining, it was directed at me. If there was bedtime, I needed to be there to nurse the baby to sleep or read the stories. If there was hunger, I needed to make the food. And then, like the winds […]  Are you crazy tired of aprons yet? Sorry. Just one more to go after this one, I promise! I liked the last one so much I had to make one for me. Since I know it will get a lot of use, I added top stitching. I like that I took an ‘apron in one […]  I made a set of sock monkey pajamas for a little girl who will be celebrating her birthday this week. I don’t know how I used to whip out these pajama pants in 10 minutes, though–they take me a solid hour now! I loved this sock monkey fabric, and this is actually from the first […] |
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