Sharpie review - 5 projects
Wow, getting into the New Year was rough. We were sick in December. Then the holidays made our life/schedule kind of crazy with time off...
Merry Christmas 2015
Whatever your religious beliefs, may you have a Merry Christmas.
Shirt apron - the Ocean
It all started with making an apron from the front of a discarded white men’s dress shirt. After I finished that project I had plenty of...
Upcycled shirt apron
When I was growing up my parents had some money problems. We weren't poor, per se, but money wasn't plentiful. Partly because of that,...
Contest Update
As I mentioned before, I entered some items in a purse / bag contest associated with a quilt show. It is time to update you about the...
I'm thankful for...
It’s two days until Thanksgiving. I’ve decided to take a small break and be thankful. It’s been suggested by scientists that being...
Sewing an old pattern
I will be going out of town soon, and decided to make myself some new travel pajamas. After all, the current ones were getting old. I got...
Purse contest entry #5
This makes the end of the series on the construction of bags or purses as entries into a contest. By the time I was ready to sew this...
Update - November 2015
Life has a way of catching up to one from time to time. It caught up to me last week, so I only have a short blog entry for today. The...
Purse contest entry #4
You may ask why I am telling you about the steps to create these bag contest entries. Partly because I want to show you the steps...
Purse contest entry #3
I must have had food on my mind when I decided to make and enter this bag in the contest. The summers in Yuma, AZ, where I live, get a...
Purse contest entry # 2
I wrote previously that I was entering a bag or two in a contest. In this series I will go through the design decisions I made when...
