I’ve taken my traditional week after Christmas off, and the weather is just plain dreary, so I’ve been catching up on work around the house.  I have not actually taken my sewing machine out since we moved to the new house (so yes, that would be three years).  I had a small list of things to […]

In “keeping myself occupied while using up my PTO at the end of the year” news, I made a bag for storing my shawls – mainly the Evenstar shawl. I’ve decided to store those in my sweater drawer, and I want an extra layer or protection for the ones I don’t wear often. You can

It’s impossible to buy gift bags that aren’t either rigid, or the size of a car seat box.    I’m shipping the things I bought for BF’s cousin’s baby, and I would very much prefer a bag I can mush into a shipping box.     So, I had to sew to my own.  

To go along with the baby blanket (and the box full of other assorted swag I’ll be sending to CA shortly), I completed two gift bags, in this cute fabric.    It doesn’t necessarily go with the color scheme of the blanket, but I really liked the fabric, so I decided I don’t care.

Had the day off today, so finally has some time to make a gift bag for Roger bear.     And since I had the machine out, I did a couple more gift bags for the knitwear stash.  

I finished a bag for the shawl I made my sister yesterday – so that’s all set to give her before the wedding this weekend.    (Under the wire – phew!)     It’s certainly very pink.    But when you confess a secret favorite color, I am obligated to go for it…

In the course of Christmas shopping, I managed to find my niece’s next birthday present.   (Yep, that’s in August.   I’m way ahead.)     Here’s a bag in which to contain it.

I went as far as I could with the tee shirt muslin.     It was mostly a success.    I’ve verified that the pattern fit, and I identified a few things I could do at set up to make it easier to put together going forward. I do have to revisit hemming.    There

  I had made a bag to go with my coworker Mary’s Evenstar shawl, which ended up being the perfect size to fit the family silver vase she was giving to his son and soon to be wife for their wedding.     Since I’ve been experimenting with bag design, I told her I’d be

Here’s the gift bag I made to go with the sweater and hat. Still a work in progress with getting a ribbon sleeve that I like.   I at least hemmed this one a little better, but a way to completely hem it only occurred to me after I had it totally sewn.     So the next