Posts by indigo_sue

Thought I'd ask the wise minds in the BF forum about a topic that's somewhat on my mind these days... I'm expecting DS#1 any day now (my theory is he's waiting for the full moon). Prior to pg I was a competitive rower and I'm still...

I've got a business, but I'm still waiting on the baby (any day/hour now!). I'm also a small business consultant and I've taught lots of entrepreneurship classes, so feel free to fire away with your questions. Answering will give me...

I have about 2m of polar fleece with a large repeating print of rubber duckies taking baths and showers, and pieces of cartoon soap. The repeat is too large to make this effectively into any kind of bunting bag or baby attire. I also...

Although I took sewing badges in Girl Guides, and two units of Sewing classes in high school, I was never interested or particularly good at sewing until I was 20 (11 years ago). That's the summer I decided I wanted to make a black satin...

I am a self-employed business consultant, and I work only with small businesses (5-20 employees, $1-10Million in revenues). I love what I do because it enables me to take academic ideas from my MBA and ongoing research, and translate it...

Try Wazoodle.com for some cottons. They tend to be fairly reasonably priced. However, you can probably get stuff even cheaper at a local discount store. You're right, manufacturers get the cloth for way cheaper. It's hard to compete when...

I just finished sewing two sheets for my mini co-sleeper. I'm not sure if the mattress is the same as for a full-sized though. I just took the sheet that came with it off and traced it, then made a sample version in muslin to test out...

Yeah, the instructions called for "hair canvas" interfacing which I've never heard of in my 12 years of sewing and reading Threads magazine. I'm sure I wouldn't be able to locate it here in town. (I live in Vancouver BC which...

There are pictures here: http://www.justsue.ca/2007/07/15/the...ng-diaper-bag/

Well, here's to sleeping on it... after last night's tantrum I forced myself to sleep all the way to 9am (clearly, I don't have a child yet) and then went out to the farmer's market and had breakfast before returning to the task. By the...