I really, really enjoy the top 100 lists that are put together over at The Long Thread. Last January a friend sent me a link to their 2008 list, and I’ve checked back with it all year. It’s January once again and I’m so looking forward to spending some quality time with the 2009 edition.
Here’s some links to some of my favourite projects:
Peruse the 100 yourself and enjoy the inspiration!
Sorry I’ve been such an absentee blogger lately. I’ve been running in and out-of-town (meaning that I have varying degrees of access to a good internet connection). The bright and shiny lining of this whole situation is that I’ve had lots of time to make things (Internet fixation? No I wouldn’t say I suffer from anything like that).
Last week I finished up a little piece of embroidery I’d been working on. A couple years ago I picked up Aunt Martha’s Baby Animals embroidery patterns, but I hadn’t sat down to work on them until now. After finally finishing the piece I wasn’t too sure what to do with it, so I turned to everyone’s favourite standby – throw pillow.
The finished pillow is still a little wonky looking. It needs to be used a bit to pack down the new filling then it should be looking normal.
The border fabric was found at one of my favourite thrift shops in Belleville. I’m so glad I decided to hand wash the fabric beforehand because it bled like bananas. I rinsed it again and again, so hopefully it’s all done with this colour shedding nonsense.
This lovely will be offered as a prize at a little baby shindig I’ll be co-hosting next month. I’m hoping whoever picks her up will give her lots of love and a happy home.
A couple weeks back I may have hinted heavily that I wanted the newest Lotta Jansdotter book “Simple Sewing for Baby.” Well, birthdays have come and gone and I just so happen to now posses that wonderful book.
I have to say, I really, really like the projects and the patterns that are included in this volume. I think the list is almost entirely packed with essentials not only for the new baby, but a growning toddler too. I’ve already drawn a lot of inspiration from the tutorials Jansdotter has presented.
The first piece I wanted to show off is the nursing pillow. A super simple design that only took about an hour to cut and sew the body pieces (but of course, that does not include the time it took to choose the actual fabrics). What took me the longest was getting off my bum to go to the store to buy stuffing.
In the end, here she is in all her glory. I hope she comes in handy.
and a stitch is one. Actually, right now it feels like stitches are all the problems I have (tough life huh?).
Tonight I’ve been searching and searching for a cool embroidery sampler by some perfect indie illustrator/pattern maker. This is not as easy as it seems apparantly. I’ve searched Etsy and Google, but I’m running out of steam before I’m running out of hits. I’ll keep trying later, but I did manage to find one very exciting pattern from the folks at Sublime Stitching. I’m feeling out of the loop, but it seems that they have licenced some work from Daniel Johnston.
Have a click on the image below for some more information on these rad designs.
