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I did a swap with my good friend Erika. She was going to knit me up some cotton washcloths, and I was going to tinker around with a knitting bag pattern. She knit me up some gorgeous washcloths that she gave me when I visited her, and I shamefully didn’t have my end [...]

I’ve been sewing some clutches lately. I have to take better pictures of an owl patterned clutch I made myself, though…
However, I did manage to get a photo of something that I sewed recently: a Baby Curvy Clutch from Keyka Lou.

I actually got the fabric from the Really Really Free Market in Houston — [...]

Last month, I had a private swap with one of my faaaaavorite people I’ve met on swapbot! Who is this awesome person? Why, it’s Ms. Andrea Lynn!
She sent me a wonderful swap that I will have to write about soon. I first need to photograph it. (I love private swaps with crafting [...]

Happy August!
I am going to try and update a bit more this month. :)
Work has kept me quite busy, and I haven’t been sewing or making things as much. I have done quite a bit of cooking, though, and I’ll probably do some updates showcasing the food stuff I’ve made! (I have some [...]

I joined another Let’s Get Crafty Swap on the Lush forums. We were to make a bamboo tile pendant for each participant. The organizer paired us off and kindly send each of us two bamboo tiles from placemats: one to send, one to keep!
Here’s the one I made for xa109a7:

I messaged xa109a7 to [...]

Michelle seriously rocks. I wrote her shortly after my grandmother passed away, and she wrote back with some very helpful information on sewing the cut-out handles on the Charm School Bag that brought on sheer frustration.
Sorry you are frustrated with the handles! I think two things are happening here:
1. It sounds like some of [...]

I’ve been on a kick sewing these hobo lunch sacks. The pattern and tutorial is from Sewing Notions. They’re definitely inspired by furoshiki cloths, but they can’t be used as a placemat because they’re sewn. I’m okay with that, though. ;)
This is so simple and easy to make. Sewing Notions provided [...]

This weekend, I sewed up a storm (okay, maybe it was a small storm :D) and made myself a bag. Now, I’ve always felt incredibly insecure when it came to my stitches, but more recently, I’ve been feeling a lot more confident.
I’m also leaning towards making useful things. I love plushies and embroidery, [...]

I’m really unhappy with my attempts at making this bag. The handles are just awful. I honestly don’t understand how people are able to get the cut-outs to lie flat. I have pressed the damned handles innumerable times to get them to lie flat, but they absolutely will not. Plus, the [...]

I did a swap with Connie recently, and I sent a few handmade things in her package:

This is a half-apron that has one big pocket sewn in the middle (so I guess that makes it two pockets). It has contrasting moss green trims and a ruffle along the edge of the apron. This [...]