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wip’s

I considered going all dyson today and complaining about my horrible sucky (or non-sucky really) vacuum cleaner. It’s 5pm now. I’ve been hoovering since dawn and my house is still a giant tumbleweed of fuzz and legos. I can totally see why that guy freaked out and invented his own. Actually I could write a really long post about how much I hate cleaning of all kinds. What I’d rather do is show some cute fun project that I’ve finished … More

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backa packa

Someone’s starting preschool very very soon. His school supply list called for one backpack with large zippered opening, no wheels. I let him pick out some fabric from his fancy fabric stash (all the great japanese prints I’ve acquired for Oscar use over the years) and this is what I came up with.

I used some fusible interfacing to stick the already canvas-like fabric to some even heavier weight canvas and then cut my pieces out from there. I didn’t … More

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bend-the-rules sewing

Oh how I wish I had the brain power right now to properly gush over Amy’s brilliant new book Bend-the-Rules Sewing. It has made me so happy to read glowing book reviews all over blogland and I’ve been dying for a few quiet minutes to add my praises to the mix and all I can come up with is holy crap it’s good! and then I have to get off the computer. How about this… the patterns are so … More

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girl thrift

I realized last weekend that I hadn’t been to the thrift store since I found out this baby is a girl! so we had to rectify that straight away. found some fun stuff…

pillowcases to make her little sundresses from…

folky purse, heart overalls and sailor dress…

and because something had to be pink, for our cute little bundle…
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between

It’s getting to that point where I need to figure out how much more I can tackle project-wise before I have to stop crafting and start packing. This weekend we took a family trip to the quilt shop to find all the fabrics for Oscar’s new duvet cover. I’d love to get it done before we move but tackling a big scale project like that in this chaos is daunting. But then tackling the chaos is even more so. Maybe … More