Hi, welcome to the blog. My name is Hillary Lang and I live in Chicagoland with son Oscar, daughter Phoebe and husband Tim. I love to design and create dolls and toys, quilts and ‘etc’. I started this weblog as a way to stay motivated and connect with the amazing online crafting community I’d stumbled upon. I’ve since started selling handmade toys and original patterns, and have contributed to craft books and magazines (press list coming soon). It’s … More
Author: hillary
kitchen gnomes dish towels embroidery patterns
This is the embroidery homework I was talking about after Christmas. My pattern distributor, Brewer Sewing Supply asked me to come up with an embroidery design that they could offer as patterns and kits. They suggested dish towels and I thought that'd be a fun challenge, that is until I drew a complete blank. I couldn't decide if it needed to be something kitchen themed or if it could be just anything. And the size and detail were tough to … More
balancing book boy
Christmas dress and warm fuzzy boots for Kit
I made merry christmas!
We had such a wonderful holiday month over here. Lots of fun, very little stress, lots of making, too much eating, everyone is very pleased with Santa this year. But in retrospect I have to say the best part of this Christmas for us was our crazylucky timing. Miss Phoebe caught herself something gross and feverish at the mall but it didn’t kick in until bedtime Christmas night and our camera which has been flirting with death finally gave up … More
bells of glittery
Oscar and I had so much fun making these ornaments for gifts and for our tree. Oscar loved picking the trims and using the hot glue gun. I love how vintage glitz they are.
gaudy awesome
I love ornaments. And most all of our favorites are made by Seasons of Cannon Falls. You see them at shops but they are near impossible to find online. I saw this very sparkly, very 50s, repro ornament at the shops the other day. I nearly bought but realized I had all the stuff on hand. So a bad of mini balls, some super stiff felt, spangly trim and glue gun later, ta da…
Isn’t she a beaut?!
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