When I am done-completely done including binding-both of my parent’s quilts, I’m going to move on and start one for Shannon and I. It hadn’t really occurred to me to make one for us until he said something a couple weeks ago. So the fabric collecting started, but I didn’t really know where I was […]
Archive for the ‘making stuff is good’ Category
November 29, 2010
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Vrooom! Vrrrrooooooommmm!!!
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, Griping, haha, making stuff is good, seriously?Someone who lives in my building had fun Saturday night with their motorcycle. Or did something deeply regrettable, I’m not sure. What I do know is that loud revving could be easily heard and that the perfume of burnt rubber was in the air. At 1:30am. Lucky us. But check the damage done to the […]
October 12, 2010
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Glove love
By Caitlin Jane in crochet, making stuff is goodI’d been wanting to make fingerless gloves for a long time and struggled with patterns and yarns and with general apathy. And didn’t make one . I also felt extreme guilt about not finishing my dad’s xmas socks from last year, but I soldiered on and finally came up with a pattern I could use: […]
October 8, 2010
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Tiny sweater #2
By Caitlin Jane in babies, crochet, making stuff is goodIt’s green wool and stiffer than the first but just as cute. I followed the pattern more closely this time and it came out pretty much perfectly. Now I must figure out footwear. I tried today but failed miserably…
October 7, 2010
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It’s hardly work at all
By Caitlin Jane in babies, crochet, making stuff is goodLately it feels-around these parts-that Shannon and I are competing at being the most productive/creative. His soaps and candles and candies are amazing and inspirational. 2 nights ago I found an adorable, free pattern for a knit cardigan on Purl Bee. I though, hey, I have lots of small ends of sock yarn, I could […]
September 28, 2010
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Stained glass quilt
By Caitlin Jane in daily grind, making stuff is goodI hung my first quilt-the sampler-in my bedroom to block out early morning sunlight. It streams in and lands right on my sleeping face. The way it hits the quilt is so pretty. I used a vintage floral sheet for the backing of this quilt. There are a couple projects I am currently working on, […]
September 7, 2010
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Zig to the zag
By Caitlin Jane in Art!, making stuff is goodThis took way less time and agony than usual. I don’t know if it’s because (most of) the fabrics I used were decent quality and all the same weight or if it was because I figured it out all on my own. I won’t go so far as to say I designed it, haha, that […]
August 27, 2010
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A quilting I will go
By Caitlin Jane in a good day, Art!, making stuff is goodJust when you (and I) thought I had given up on quilting completely, I went ahead and finished one quilt, made another and started a third. Go figure. The first one was for Saira and Michael’s baby, Kiran. Yes, I’d made her a sweater too and given the quilt over at the baby shower, but […]
July 20, 2010
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Also delicious
By Caitlin Jane in food, making stuff is goodCrumbles be damned, from this day forward I am a Cobbler girl. I think I got this recipe from PW and it’s a total winner: 1 stick butter, melted 1.25 C sugar 1 C self-rising flour 1 C milk (I used goat milk because that’s what we have here these days) 2 C blackberries Whisk […]
July 20, 2010
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Here’s what to do:
By Caitlin Jane in a good day, food, making stuff is goodWhen you have the time/space. Since last Monday when I was at the Sorauren Farmer’s Market (which, if you are in the area, you really should go to, it’s small but everyone there is nice and has beautiful local/organic produce) and met some nice ladies from Parkdale’s Westend Food Co-op who made me think about […]