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Snowmageddon

Posted on January 19, 2012 by sewtheday

Well, our first snow has turned into quite the storm. The entire Pacific Northwest has been heavily blanketed in snow. We had about 12 inches yesterday and lots of fun was had playing in it.

Now the snow has a beautiful layer of ice on top and while pretty to look at, it isn’t a great idea to get out in it.

The trees are all bent over from the weight of all the ice and snow. And I can hear and sometimes see the branches crashing down.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we lose power in the next few hours.

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First Snow

Posted on January 15, 2012 by sewtheday

The first snow of the season began late yesterday afternoon and we woke to a lovely blanket of snow to play in this morning.

The sun is still very low all day. This is about 10am.

The Scottish Broom shrubs had clumps of snow hanging off of them like lace.

It’s been snowing on and off all day, so I’m hoping that there is more tomorrow morning.

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Wordless Wednesday – Jelly Beans!

Posted on August 18, 2011 by sewtheday

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Wordless Wednesday – Bread

Posted on July 27, 2011 by sewtheday

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I knew Spoonflower had a bunting contest a while back so I thought I’d look there first when I decided to make a birthday bunting. I found several that I liked, but the moment I saw Inktree Press’s Birthday Bunting I knew that was it!

It won’t be hanging on the fireplace mantel on Birthday Day, but I need some more command hooks before I can hang it up for the party next weekend.

Happy… And a Hedgehog on an H.

I loved these little mushrooms. There are also teeny tiny ones on the D and one of the P letters.

Nothing like a waving gnome to add in some serious cuteness. :)

Here is the D with the little Deer. I love that all the letters have an object or animal that starts with that letter. You can also see the some of the red backing that I used.

I didn’t follow her directions exactly because I didn’t want a pinked edge, but one that was crisp and clean. So I cut a 1/4 inch seam allowance on each of the long sides of each triangle piece and sewed the backing to the front right sides together. After flipping at the short side opening I just ironed everything nice and flat and lined up all the letters and pinned them to the bias tape.

For a backing used some red fabric with white stars on some and red with white polka dots on others. I didn’t have enough of either to do all of them. Both backing fabrics were stash fabrics! I also had to buy the red bias tape, since I didn’t have nearly enough for the full length. It took almost the entire pack, 3 yards. I really wanted to bring out the little bits of red and make it more vibrant. I added some wide grosgrain ribbon to the ends for a little added tying length in a matching red. :)

The fabric came printed with triangles numbered 1st, 2nd, 3rd… up through 10th for attaching to the banner. I haven’t made them up yet, as I’m on a time crunch and my machine is going in for repairs tomorrow morning.

Most store bought banners are only good for a few uses before they get tattered looking. I love that we will be able to use this banner for years to come!

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Cravings

Posted on July 23, 2011 by sewtheday

Except for ice water, I haven’t been craving much as of late, but yesterday I wanted deviled eggs so bad. Little Bit is allergic to eggs, so I don’t buy them because we don’t use them. I posted my yearning on facebook and my friend Roberta happened to have 5 dozen surplus eggs! She dropped by this morning with a dozen lovely eggs just for me.

Half of them went immediately into a pot of boiling water for deviled eggs. I threw in one extra to make some tuna salad for lunch.

This also meant that I got to use my woefully neglected polish pottery egg plate. :)

I was very well pleased with my deviled eggs and tuna salad sandwich. I haven’t decided what to do with the other 5 eggs, maybe I’ll make some fried eggs for myself and make hubby an egg omelet tomorrow for breakfast.

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Wordless Wednesday – Putting up Peas

Posted on July 13, 2011 by sewtheday

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Baby Cocoon

Posted on July 12, 2011 by sewtheday

I haven’t been doing too much crochet recently, but while going through my yarn I found 2 skeins of Brown Sheep worsted weight Lanaloft wool in purple iris. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it….Make a baby cocoon for my little Thumper due in December.

I just did it free hand, no pattern. Something I haven’t done in a very long time.

Here is the end result…

My friend Honor bought these buttons in Scotland and gifted them to me a several years ago. I think they are a perfect fit!

This really is a beautiful color way, I wish they were still making it.

I have some other Brown Sheep yarn that I bought at the same time I got this yarn 3 years ago. It is a blue variegated Lambs Pride wool and mohair blend. It is oh so soft! I’m really lucky that the color way, Blue Skyways, is still in production, since I really needed another skein to make another cocoon for Thumper. Luckily my local yarn shop carries it and a friend was there on Saturday and called to see if I wanted some. :) So I’ll be starting the other cocoon shortly, and I should have enough for a hat since the Lambs Pride skeins are bigger than the Lanaloft ones.