Here’s another wrap skirt finished!  I really love it, and I’m wearing it all the time.  Three cheers for homemade summer skirts! I know it’s been said in blogland before, but it is really hard to take a decent picture of yourself wearing a skirt that you made.

I actually finished this skirt in three days!  I wore it on Easter, but I spent the entire day trying not to flash everyone around me.  The overlap on the skirt is only about six inches, which I think it way too short for “flashing protection.”  So it went into the closet, and this past […]

I made The Girl’s Easter dress from some of my leftover thrifted vintage sheet fabric.  This was the second time I used McCall’s pattern 5083 and I’m not so sure I’ll be using it again.  I really like the simple shape of the dress, but the bindings on the neckband and arm holes are impossibly […]

Back before I had kids, I used to dress in cute funky outfits, wear nail polish, and sleep late.  These days I’m lucky if the clothes I’m wearing actually fit, there isn’t dirt under my fingernails, and I get to sleep three hours in a row. I used to sew almost all of my clothes, […]

The Boy and The Daddy Monkey were napping and The Girl toddled up to check out what I was doing.  I was working on stuffing the love birds (which much to my embarrassment, are still not finished).  First she pulled wads of the stuffing out of its box and handed them to me.  When she […]

I have always wanted to make a quilt for each of the four seasons.  I was just chatting with The Snail the other day and happened to mention this and she most enthusiastically replied, “that’s a great idea!” So of course that got me thinking. I’ve been buying these vintage sheets and pillowcases lately and the […]

Every bit of free time I have had in the last month has been spent organizing my sewing supplies.  Obviously I would love to have a whole room for my sewing, but for now I don’t mind being in the living room where I can be a part of the family action.  I have a […]

Since I shared The Girl’s Waldorf doll last week, I thought I’d share The Boy’s today.  I really love how he turned out.  I made him to match The Boy’s eye and hair color, and I even made the little hawaiian shirt and jeans just like The Boy used to wear. I made him from […]

Recently, my dear friend and midwife, The Swede, decided to come home for a visit from Sweden to prepare for the birth of her second child.  After my New Moon Sisters and I made plans for a motherblessing, I had a crazy, harebrained idea.  And who loves harebrained ideas late at night more than I […]

Here’s the Waldorf doll I made for The Girl for Christmas. I’m very proud of her because this is only the second Waldorf doll I’ve ever made, and she is from my very own pattern.  The first Waldorf doll I made was for The Boy’s second birthday and it was a very challenging project for […]