From now until December 1 I will be having a little sale in my shop. I’ll be adding new things all this week. Come on by!
Felted wool stockings and rabbits for sale this weekend!
Next shop update November 23!
Last week we spent a morning just hanging out. The day started at the public market where we took a water taxi to the beach across the inlet. We threw pieces of driftwood into the ocean and compared splashes and distance. We made a small channel to the sea. We waded into the ocean past our boot tops. We took off our boots and socks and headed back to the public market for hot snapper soup, and some playtime at the wooden toy shop before heading back home. If you haven’t thrown sticks into a body of water lately, get yourself out to the nearest sea or lake. I highly recommend it.
This place is making me want to move to New York. Not that I needed another reason. I’m really enjoying the online collage tool (create button). For our part, Vancouver has this, this, and this so I’m not completely deprived of rainy day kid friendly places. As the rains set in I’ll be trolling the internet for other fun things to do. I’d love to hear what you are up to.
Some garden shots to end the week. It’s been fun!
Some blurry, dark, angled shots from the Ace hotel in Portland. We had something on the rollers and it took a few shots to figure out what was going on. The results are the white lights that appear on some of these.
I’m not able to post both of these to the group due to a flickr glitch but thought I’d share them here instead. Despite the nature of the food in these photos we did eat rather well in Portland. Our camera has trouble with the light meter (and maybe I do too) so our inside shots tend to be quite dark and brown. I think it adds to the seventies feel and I’m learning to be patient with my polaroid skills.
Portland eats II
Donut shoppe on NE Alberta St
taken on polaroid 600 with expired film
Portland eats I
Fuller’s Diner
taken on polaroid 600 with expired film
Some blue skies for polaroid week:
Near NE Alberta Street in Portland.
An intersection in East Vancouver.
We’ve been playing with our 600 over the last few weeks so I was excited to see that polaroid week has begun! I need to sort out some scanner issues (finding the cords) but once I do, I’ll upload some shots from our recent Portland trip.
In the meantime, here are some shots from the archives. My man in his youth. Love ya baby!
A while back I posted about a quilt I was working on. Goodness, it’s been over a year and not much progress has happened since then. I have to admit, I am more than a bit intimidated by making something that large and permanent so I decided to make something a little smaller in scale to give me the courage to finish off that quilt.
I also wanted to use up some scraps that I had lying around. So I started cutting three inch strips and sorting them into colour groupings. Then I cut out a piece of cotton batting to the size that I wanted and started laying bits on it to see how they would work together. Then I sewed strips from the three inch bits and made them about as long as the height of the batting. I made enough to cover the width. Once I had enough strips, I started sewing them all together until I had a piece of fabric the same dimensions as the batting. I stitched along the vertical seams to attach the pieced fabric to the batting and used a piece of cotton muslin for the backing. A quick top-stitch around the edges and voila! A cute little quilted mat for my kitchen sink.
True, it is not exactly a traditional quilt, through all the layers and with a binding but I think that it’s small enough that the backing fabric shouldn’t slip too much. And it was pretty easy and quick to make. I think it took maybe 2 full days of cutting and sewing overall. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out. If I were to make another one, I might consider using more neutral fabrics to crate a calmer feel. For a busy family kitchen this one works just fine though.
Turns out I’m not the only one thinking of ways to use up fabric scraps. Sew Mama Sew is hosting a scrap busting month with lots of tutorials for scrap fabric projects.
I’m loving this cute little alphabet from chez beeper beebe
and this drawstring bag from momonmo
