Here's the story....the other night I was chopping up some T-shirts for a project when all I had left over was the cropped top of a grey one.Grace was working on a project next to me.She thought the shirt was funny.One thing led to another and now she is wearing it like some crazy Flashdance fanatic.Yes...I'm letting her keep and wear it. Yes it is in fact just a t-shirt that has been hacked off at the armpits.The only other thing I did was sew in a casing for some elastic around the arms ... View the Post
Thrifted Thursday—Spools
My mom found these awesome wooden spools at a garage sale and brought them to me. Can I tell you how much I adore her?I am in love with them. The colors, the spools....and really everything about them. I kept pressing her for what more there was at the garage sale that she could have bought----sewing or notions-wise. But these were it.Nonetheless an amazing find. Especially for the $4 she paid for them. Thanks mom!Any amazing sewing deals in your thrifting excursions lately?I tried to go ... View the Post
A Guest Post and An Important Requested Link
#1. A Guest Post: Today we are over at Kojo Designs participating in their Sewing for Me series. Believe it or not we do enjoy sewing for ourselves and not just our children. (Although you might not be able to tell it from our blog---several of you have noticed the lack of any photographic evidence that either of us actually exist---so until we get over our aversion to cameras you'll just have to trust that we do indeed exist and that we enjoy sewing for ourselves. Consider it an exercise ... View the Post
A Bubble Skirt Tutorial
Or maybe the title of this post should be "how the Vintagely Modern Skirt became a Bubble Skirt." For this skirt I took The Vintagely Modern Skirt tutorial and made it a bubble skirt (or you can use any fuller skirt pattern, for that matter). Here's what you need: *your skirt material (I used about 1 1/4 yards of Kona cotton in "Butter Yellow" for a girls size 6) *your skirt lining material (I used just about a half yard) *matching thread *button (or elastic if you want an ... View the Post
Little Lady Lace Suspenders
Ever since I made Simon's suspenders I've been dying to make Grace a pair as well. So last month I finally got around to it and I made her some ruffled ribbon suspenders. The only problem was that before I was even finished with them I knew that I would have to make another pair....out of ruffled lace. I actually think I like them even better than the ruffled ribbon ones which I kind of love. And they are easy to make--you just follow the exact same steps except use lace instead of ribbon ... View the Post
The Art of Homemaking—Week 4: My life is like a pack of cookies
So I am in week 4 of my Art of Homemaking Experiment.These past 2 weeks I've been working on my attitude and appearance.Let me explain how things are going by telling a story.Earlier this week I bought Grace a package of Grandma's Chocolate cookies just after Simon went to school. Each package has two cookies. When she opened it up she said "Wow! Two cookies! One for me and one for Simon!"Grace ate her cookie and then put the other cookie on the table and announced that she was going to save ... View the Post
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