Stupid internet. The very LAST thing I need in this life is another sewing project to start, but I was innocently doing a little mindless blog surfing and saw this quiet book from The Empty Bobbin last week I had a quiet book when I was little, and Ellie loved playing with it while […]
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Category Archives: kids Kids Sewing Week was a great big bust around here. In that it made me want to chuck everything I owned out a window and light it on fire in frustration. Okay, not THAT bad, but I don’t like being completely unable to keep to a schedule…and having to bump this dress to the next […]  The other night Nic complained that Will never seems to have any clean pajama pants. This is because I recently noticed that most of Will’s pajama pants come to just below his knee, and so while putting away laundry I’ve been tossing the worst of the outgrown pajama bottoms into the closet (a shrine to […]  Will’s preschool class made their own Brown Bear, Brown Bear book this fall, so when we were at a fabric shop a few months ago and Will saw this fabric, he wanted it desperately. I bought it and planned on working to sew it up in a way that would still be a bit modern, […]  April 2015 Update: I’m getting lots of questions right now about the blocks and fabric I used. Unfortunately this was a quilt from four years ago so I don’t remember the details, but looking at the stroller blanket I’d made previously that I based this quilt on, the blocks are 8″ finished. They are based […]  I’ve been seeing these little bottle/sippy leashes on strollers everywhere, but when I looked at BabysRUs for one it was something like $7, and since that will buy me a churro at Disneyland I decided to skip it. But I couldn’t get the idea of how nice one would be out of my head, so […] |
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