My friend Lynda has a beautiful tote bag that she uses for her knitting supplies. She made it after taking a basket-making class based on the book “It’s a Wrap” by Susan Breier.
Several of us in the knit group have been wanting to learn the technique and so recently Lynda gave us all a lesson. [...]
I’ve been wanting to make this pattern for a while.
It’s called the “Liverpool” and it’s by Amy Butler. I’ve made a couple of her other patterns and generally, they are well written, if a bit overly detailed for experienced sewers. Before starting mine, I read this entry on the Bolt blog and it proved very [...]
I have these two boring, generic wooden stools. One is in the kitchen and one is in my studio. They are very plain and the seats are very hard, so the other day I decided to do something about it.
I just happened to have some one inch foam left over from recovering my dining room [...]
Okay, one more post about my talented friends and then I’ll post something I’ve done. Promise! It’s just hard to resist because I know such talented women.
Peggy showed us this wonderful quilt she made. The pattern came from the same book that she used to make the cards in the previous post. I love her [...]
Another wonderful crafty gift from the other day was this set of cards.
Peggy got the cards and matching envelopes from The Paper Zone. She cut out some strips of fabric, laid them down on top of the card, trimmed them to the correct length and sewed through them all on her machine. I think she [...]