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Flower Power WIP
Posted by Claire on Feb 06 2011
This is one of the projects that sort of got started by accident. It started because I wanted to make one of these for each of the boys: Adorable, eh? The tutorial is here on the At Second Street blog. She’s got some cute stuff and I don’t get to make a lot of ‘cute’ […]
What’s that in the sky? UFOs!!
Posted by Claire on Jan 23 2011
I started this post last week with the grand intention of naming and shaming all my 2010 UFOs that have been lurking and that I have been working on, off and on, in a very desultory fashion. Like this this angel sleeve bishop, which I am smocking as the final assignment for my Advanced Stitches […]
‘Midnight Stars’ winter dress
Posted by Claire on Dec 05 2010
I’m generally opposed to holiday clothing for a couple reasons – not because I don’t like holidays but because I get so little time to sew and it seems a little problematic to make something that can only be worn for a short period of time. But having already broken my usual prescription with this […]
Christmas Bishop Complete
Posted by Claire on Nov 22 2010
A quick and cheerful bishop for the holiday season. The pattern is “Marguerite” from Country Bumpkin’s “Beautiful Bishops” book. I’m on the fence about this particular pattern. While I love the idea of a bishop/yoke hybrid (just think of the embroidery and heirloom possibilities that lovely rounded expanse of fabric offers around the face!), there’s […]
SB Victorian Santa Step-by-Step
Posted by Claire on Nov 10 2010
I’ve got a lovely velvet pillow in the current issue of Sew Beautiful . It features a very different method of picture smocking. Essentially, I threw out the rule book, which usually advocates using multiple needles for complex picture smocking, and smocked it like you would a cross stitch picture, block of colour by block of […]