My birthday always seems to last longer than just the day of and this year was no exception. Shannon and I picked up my new sewing machine last week and I have fallen deeply, seriously, in love. It’s pretty much the best thing I own! As you can see, it’s another Janome but it’s an […]
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May 23, 2012
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How you can help
By Caitlin Jane in babies, crochet, Griping, making stuff is goodHere is a picture my lady Libs posted yesterday on Facebook. It’s her happy baby Niamh enjoying herself at the park while sitting on a quilt I gave her. See? It is a picture of the thing I made and gave away being used. This is what I wish everyone I gave my shit to […]
May 6, 2012
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Undies.
By Caitlin Jane in clothes, making stuff is goodPicked up this pattern at Value Village today for 69 cents. My plan is to use old t shirts to make underwear with. In a perfect world it will be a cinch.
May 5, 2012
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Sewing, sewing, gone
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, making stuff is goodThis is what my sewing table looks like. Looked like. I did tidy it up, sort of, after I took this. I’m working on so many things at once and it does get a little chaotic at times. Mostly I’m in the plotting and scheming portion of the show. This involves pulling out stacks of […]
January 10, 2012
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Stash building
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, making stuff is goodI got some delicious fabric in the mail today that I thought I’d share. Like most quilters, new and beautiful fabrics are very hard to resist for me. Pink Chalk was (and still is?) having a big sale and I picked up a couple pieces. Hmm, so the one at the bottom, it is navy […]
November 18, 2011
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Scrapping
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, love, making stuff is goodI’ve started yet another quilting project: the Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt. It’s a pretty amazing book full of stories and 111 different 6 inch quilt blocks. Yes, 111. I’m not as ambitious as you may think and at the moment my goal is to make 80 of them which I plan to put together in […]
October 18, 2011
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Crosses
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, crochet, love, making stuff is goodBack from our romantic getaway for two, I’ve got the itch to get to work on projects that have been set aside. I find flickr to be a great source for inspiration and that is where I found this tutorial on a simple quilt pattern. My squares are bigger than the instructions but it seems […]
July 30, 2011
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Next up…
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, making stuff is goodI know, starting a new project when so many others are on hold is generally a bad idea, but I scored some amazing vintage pillow cases the other day and I’m just too excited. There are 8 different prints cut into 5.5″ squares to be sewn into a diagonal pattern in a 16 x 16 […]
July 26, 2011
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Quilteration
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, love, making stuff is goodI have actually had it back in my hot little hands for a while now but haven’t had the inclination to drag it outside in the blazing heat to take pictures. Today was a beautiful day, ideal weather if you ask me, and here we are. As you can imagine, I am thrilled beyond belief […]
July 3, 2011
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Gym bag
By Caitlin Jane in making stuff is goodMy old gym bag was starting to look rough and I was finding it cumbersome on the subway so I made myself a new one. All I knew was that I wanted it to be like a duffle bag, long and narrow, but flat. So with minimal designing, I came up with this: I used […]