As per request, the dresses. I apologize for the Instagramification of it all, but I’m 100% iPad these days and can’t be bothered to pay for the good photoshop app. I do not have a picture of #1 because it was a test run. The pattern is called The Staple Dress, and it’s designed by […]
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May 17, 2013
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Sewing day
By Caitlin Jane in clothes, making stuff is goodSo I finally got glasses. I had a pair years ago, picked while drunk and lost while drunk. They’d never been replaced because they were so expensive I thought all glasses were out of my financial reaches. So I asked for them for my birthday because reading was getting to be stupid. That’s me, today. […]
October 10, 2012
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Anxiety
By Caitlin Jane in hmmmm, making stuff is good, seriously?My best friend and I have opened an etsy shop. We had been talking about collaborating for a long time and finally came up with a name, a logo, and stock. For some reason, however, I find myself completely unable to actually put my baby quilts in the shop. I have no real excuse for […]
September 28, 2012
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Old dog, new tricks
By Caitlin Jane in making stuff is goodThere’s this old footstool here, it’s incredibly ugly but a decent shape, so I’ve decided to recover it. Re cover. Which is it? I got some very awesome fabric and what I’m doing is called free motion quilting. You drop your feed dogs (the little teeth on your sewing machine that keep things flowing) and […]
September 20, 2012
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Because no one asked
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, crochet, making stuff is goodI picked up 3 fat quarters of the new Heather Ross fabric, Nursery Versery, at The Workroom yesterday. Heather Ross is possibly my very best fabric designer and every time I look at the back of my green quilt I wish I’d saved some of her Far Far Away 2 line. Then I remember that […]
September 19, 2012
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Knitting season
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, crochet, making stuff is goodThe weather has cooled considerably and I’ve resumed knitting. It helps that purl has posted a few simple but classic patterns. I also resume knitting this time of year because there is suddenly an influx of tv things to watch. This is the second version of this hat I’ve knit this week. One may well […]
September 12, 2012
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The fabric sitch.
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, caitlin's crap, making stuff is goodI’ve been thinking a lot lately about organizing a fabric swap. This has been rolling around in my brain for a while but has felt more urgent recently because I am moving and wouldn’t mind paring down Mount Fabric and because I started a project and want more assorted pink fabrics from other people’s stashes. […]
July 20, 2012
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Leaving.
By Caitlin Jane in caitlin's crap, crochet, love, making stuff is goodIn a few short hours I will be leaving for the airport. I’m headed for England, my first cousin is getting married next weekend and I’m so excited. I think it’s 7 years since I was there last. I’m really terrible with packing, my choices were a too small suitcase and a too big suitcase. […]
July 2, 2012
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Dolly quilt
By Caitlin Jane in babies, crochet, making stuff is goodSmall projects can be so satisfying. This quilt used up a small pile of collected scraps and one fat quarter for the back and binding. I used small pieces of batting, zigged together. It’s such an easy project. The Fabricland at North York Centre is closing and has lots of interesting things on sale so […]
June 13, 2012
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Hats!
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, clothes, crochet, making stuff is goodI have a big head. There. I said it on my blog. The problem with a big head is that I can never find a hat that fits. At least, not inexpensive, mass produced hats. Nothing cute, certainly. And like most clothes that don’t fit properly, a jammed down hat looks terrible, feels bad, and […]