Slight Coverage

Well, here's a project that's not quite finished, but will be soon (she says!)...all I've left to do is trim the second pull shade & we're done! These are in the dining room/office/craft room. After 4-1/2 years, I finally put up window treatments other than $4 pull shades! I think the look kind of goes with the cottage-y feel of our apartment.
The body of the curtain is poly lace I got ages ago from somewhere - given to me, I think. The trim on the bottom used to be attached to a petticoat I wore in college. Love that trim & it's had a few lives so far. The off-white bits are flocking, for cryin' out loud!


The trim now on the pull-shade to spruce it up (too cheap to buy new ones - these still work!). Note the area where I slipped when stitching - kept it there for wabi-sabi's sake. Still remembering "it doesn't have to be perfect, it doesn't have to be perfect...."
The pull from some shop in Soho - bone or something like that.
The summer handbag I'm beginning - still needs a lining. The fabric is white cotton with metallic silver images!! what could be better?!

It's been so long....

It's a New Year & now that there's finally free time, I can do a bit of posting. These pic's are of "taggie" toys I made as part of my sweet baby twin nephews' Christmas package (from the Simple Sewing book - fabric from Superbuzzy & Fiber Notion)

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some tricked out hot pads I just completed. (click on the picture for a larger view.) The fabric is a Japanese import from Superbuzzy that I just love, but had no use for yet, & the hot pads are from Mom's give-away pile a few years back. I made the fabric into bias binding & stitched it on through the pad from front to back to secure - easy since it was so soft. The hang tag was applied to the bias & hot pad first so it's rough edges could be totally hidden. Viola! hang-able & cute.

In the meantime...

No pictures as of yet of anything new. Starting to do some hemming, but have many projects in mind. Finishing the brown dress for one!!

And now, for something completely different!

A silhouette I made for D.'s birthday last month. It's of Lulu & her long, lost mouse - the one she found in our apt. 3 years ago & for whom she still carries a torch. We almost wish another would make an appearance just to make her happy.

19-what?

What era does this trimming look like? Kinda 1930's meets 1940's? Anyhow, I've yet to wear it in public, since the season's pretty much over - sob! Trim is from Brooklyn Mercantile, another lovely Park Slope shop!

Cute-ify!

A Project long in the making: a sweet valance for our kind of modern, yet still wanting to be 1920's kitchen. Finally found the perfect fabric for it at the Red Bank, NJ antique barn.

(Mitts to the left were a project from last year...pic on right is by the fabulous Aunty Cookie)

I took a table/dresser runner which is beautifully embroidered, cut it down, hemmed it & added hanging loops out of thread I had chained (is that how you say it?). Like a tailor's tack, but longer & looped. Add an Ikea curtain rod for $4-$5 & voila! Sweetness!

Another Day, Another Project...

Well, I just got finished saying that basically time was at a premium & not much crafting was happening, but that's sort of not totally true. My sister-in-law's due very soon with twin boys (yea!) & I wanted to send out a little something when they arrive on the scene.

Simple Sewing is FAN-tastic! (Scaredy Kat can special-order it for you, if you'd like!) It features simple (as the title suggests) or simply styled practical baby items that make perfect gifts if you're strapped for time as I am right now.

I'm doing the bias-trimmed burp cloths - 3 for each little guy! The fabrics are ones used in other quilts or just hanging around - don't you just love the ruler fabric?? The blue is 'gnomes gardening' print (Heather Bliss) & the red is cowboys on horses (an integral part of my nephew's quilt). The burp cloths are actually diapers & came from the fabulous Boing Boing in Brooklyn.

(PS - The sweet little guys were born on the July 4th! Cute as can be!!)