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post #41 of 314
1/5/13 at 2:21am
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Finished 2/52: the fancy vintage apron I made for a friend's wedding. Which was today. It was nice.

 

About my too-short dress - it's fine, I just wear it around the house. DH likes it. :p I just don't think the world at large needs to be subjected to my pasty white knees!

 

Hmm... now the wedding's over, I actually don't have any craft deadlines looming. I should finish DD's CInderella dress, which I am now officially changing from "late Christmas present" to "birthday present I'll hopefully get done early". Or I could work a bit more on her summer quilt, which IIRC I'd almost finished piecing last time I gave up on it.

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post #42 of 314
1/5/13 at 6:27am
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Oh how I love surprise round robin type games.... even more fun with crafty stuff....  
If anyone cares there is a website  swapbot. com that has tons of swaps you can sign up for.  I've never been flaked on  lots of knitters and yarn crafts as well as journal swaps happening over there.
Ooooo!Thanks.
post #43 of 314
1/5/13 at 7:47am

Rere - I'm loving the felted coasters...can you post an explanation on how you made them for someone who's never worked with felt before?

 

I LOVE that black and white dress. I'd never look good in it, but it's gorgeous and something I wish I could wear!!

 

I just cast on for another scarf - eggplant superwash wool in a linen stitch. I'm so excited to see how it turns out. My mother gave me a gift cert. for a localcraft store so I'm trying hard to resist the siren call of more yarn and fabric and use up what I already have first. However...I do need some double pointed needles...for making socks (which I need to learn to make).

 

Greaat job everyone!! I'm really proud of you all and get such inspiration from you.

post #44 of 314
1/5/13 at 6:54pm

400

 

The first finished project of 2013.  I twinged my back and could not find my rice bags.  So I made myself a new one.  Nice and big and very cozy when sitting and knitting. 

 

1/52
 

post #45 of 314
1/6/13 at 4:28pm

Hi, Ladies, Happy 2013!  Signing on.  I need to make a bigger rice bag, too, potatocraft; great idea.  Thanks for all the great nursing dress ideas, too!  Are you expecting, Smokering?  I don't remember you mentioning that before... 

 

I'll take point #1 for starting a new blog.  It's supposed to be a cooking blog, but it is starting out on a diet and I've been doing tonnes of research on different eating styles and things like sweeteners and stuff and have a lot of posts in the works.  Here is the link in case anyone would like to follow ;) : Great Gravy

 

I just bought PUL and FOE and a pattern book for making "real" cloth dipes (I made a couple dozen functional but not pretty ones for my baby, but these will be pretty AIOs, hopefully for sale).  BUT my sewing room is currently so perfectly clean and organized that I have been putting off sewing, which I can't seem to do without making a terrific mess! 

post #46 of 314
1/6/13 at 5:25pm

Tonight after dinner Fynn (my oldest at 4) and I made him a rice bag.  He was stealing mine again so I asked if he wanted to make one.  He said a green one please. So off we went to the sewing room.  These really are nice quick projects for little helpers.  He picked his own fabric, helped me cut by holding the ruler, sat on my lap at the sewing machine and did the back stitching and cutting. And he filled his own bag with rice, his favorite part.  It was a nice 15 minutes of sewing work, just about right for his attention span.  And he was able to pop his bag into the microwave just in time for bed.  So we are at 2/52 for this year. 
 

post #47 of 314
1/6/13 at 5:32pm
I started 2 Smash Books today. One for 2013 from this point forward and one that is totally hap hazard and has pictures in it for anywhere between 2 and 14 years ago. That one is more general titles like family and then I put pics in a chronologically - ish order. I just want to start being able to look at a picture of my kid as a sweet 2 year old while he is being a smarmy 16 year old.
post #48 of 314
1/6/13 at 6:06pm

Woot!  1/52 is finished.

 

 

It's a gift for my daughter's elementary school.  You might have seen the quote floating around the internets after Sandy Hook so I bought the pattern as a donation to their PTO.  Anyway, I really adore my kid's school and I want them to know that. :)

post #49 of 314
1/6/13 at 6:28pm

oh, that's LOVELY, Angela! <3

post #50 of 314
1/6/13 at 9:44pm
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Are you expecting, Smokering?  I don't remember you mentioning that before...

Oh - no, not currently! Planning on TTC at the end of this year, though. Nursing dresses just came up, that's all. :) And I'd like to make some maternity dresses before getting pregnant this time, as I had a ghastly pregnancy last time and might be in no condition to sew during...

 

I'm at a loss right now! I don't have anything I absolutely have to finish, and I can't sew DD's Cinderella dress while she's awake, so I'm not sure what to sew! Hmm. Might go rootle round my sewing cupboard and see if inspiration strikes.

post #51 of 314
1/7/13 at 7:24am

African, that's lovely :)

 

So much already getting done this year :)

post #52 of 314
1/7/13 at 2:54pm

 

Finished my 75ish (I didn't count in the end...) Felt Fortune Cookies for my event over the weekend, plus did up 5 for the little guy's kitchen, and then another 25 for a mama new year's swap. All one 'project' so I've finished 1/52! 

post #53 of 314
1/7/13 at 4:10pm
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Well, I decided to make DD a summer dress I'd intended to make her for Christmas. Started it yesterday, finished it today, which is uncharacteristically efficient of me. Must be a January thing. I couldn't get any decent photos because incompetence, but here are some non-decent ones.

 

 

And that's 3/52.

post #54 of 314
1/7/13 at 6:55pm

That dress is so cute!  And I love the umbrella! 

post #55 of 314
1/8/13 at 3:12am

Momsteader- Great job on the fortune cookies! Did it take a long time?

Smoking- Love the dress and your daughter is a cute :)

post #56 of 314
1/8/13 at 6:50am
We have an art show here (it is also other places around the US) called "fun-a-day" ( http://www.artclash.com/). The idea is that you do something "fun" or crafty, or interesting or thoughtful or repetitive everyday in January. There is usually a show of people's things in February although many more people participate than actually show their stuff.

I always want to do it and can't think of an idea or forget or whatever. But this year I'm doing it! Ds and I are doing it together and we are just taking a picture of the two of us everyday. That's it. I felt like it was something I could handle and actually do everyday and something ds could be a part of so that maybe next year or the year after he could plan and do his own fun-a-day project.
post #57 of 314
1/8/13 at 9:09pm

Heather, nope! Cookies were pretty fast actually. Just a lot of them! 

post #58 of 314
1/9/13 at 7:06am
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Rere - I'm loving the felted coasters...can you post an explanation on how you made them for someone who's never worked with felt before?
i mostly use felted sweaters because I that's cheaper than buying wool felt and using wool is the key.It's so lovely.

I gathered up my scraps and just started piecing them together to make a square a bit bigger than what I wanted in the end so that I could cut it down to square it up later.

For the back of the coasters I sewed up a two sided square with the seams on the inside so that I would have nice looking edges(I could have just folded over the raw edges and only used one layer but I wanted to see what the two layers would feel like)and then sewed it to the back of the coaster.Lastly I trimmed down the felt so it was squared up and even with the fabric baking.

Felt is so fun to sew with.You should totally give it a try!
post #59 of 314
1/9/13 at 11:32am

I am taking a point for some very much needed little home repairs I did.  Complained enough that DH kind of fixed our toilet, I fixed my kitchen sink, replaced the broken hinges on our dining room cabinets (they were hanging there for a year broken- it took 3 hardware stores- but I found the ones that would actually work!), and adjusted our hot water heater- which isn't easy to get to since the cellar door is extremely heavy.  

 

3/52

 

I have been playing with my new Bosch Universal- no point yet- but the bread is amazing!  This recipe is a keeper :)  I do need to figure out the correct pan combo though- I might just see if I can find 2 more smaller ones- I think it would do 3 smaller loaves perfectly.

post #60 of 314
1/9/13 at 11:51am

Hi, ladies, I'm popping on from the sewing room to take 2 points for finishing 2 UFOs that were preventing this room from being 100% clean.  They were both little purses, one was a small Buttercup bag and the other a little girl's play purse, both of which are filed away now as "inventory" for my shop and/or Spring craft booth.

 

so my total now is 3. Have a nice today! <3

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