When I have insomnia

I think about sewing projects. It helps me calm down to sleep. Really. I also think about sewing projects when I ride the bike, but hubs says I stop putting power to the pedals when I do that. So last…

New (to me) consignment

I stopped into a Plato’s Closet location tonight with a friend. This is strictly weekend-wear-store for the late 30 somethings that we are. It’s a teen store, with skimpy tanks, tees that say pithy things like “boyfriends are like purses.…

More consignment shopping

I took off to my fave consignment boutique again. Shorts and skirts for summer. They had lots in sale, but not a lot of shorts. I got what I could find that fit, and also got a skirt. So two…

Janina shorts progress

So I made a lovely half-muslin (didn’t have any more fabric – or it was deep in the stash). And it fit great. I was on a roll! But the fashion fabric, a stretch denim, doesn’t behave the same (use…

It’s 90 and I’m thinking about fall

Hotter than the blazes outside. Part of me thinks about fall (is that ludicrous? I’m an in-season sewist most of the time). But I want to jot this down – a nursing sweater, with a curved-front overlay (same length as…

inspired by

Can I just say I love anthropologie? I wish they had a store near me. The looks are eclectic, vintage and just my style. But I need to refresh my memory of mixing and matching (and not matchy-matchy) things. My…

ASG!

So I had a fabulous time at the ASG conference in Chicago! I took three sessions in one day, and did a bit of shopping in the expo. I took Christine Jonson’s perfect sizing worksheet (which confounds me less, and…

I’m off to the ASG!

I’m off to the American Sewing guild conference on thursday night (wish I was going the whole week, but it’s $$ and that’s a lot of time away from the baby.) Hubs is going too, he’s going to watch her,…

thinking about sewing

The baby is asleep in the stroller next to me – it’s too large to wheel into her bedroom (and it’s 5pm, she shouldn’t sleep long anyway). But I’m only able to think about sewing because she’ll be up soon,…

Hey I have sewn a lot of stuff!

This was July 2007’s post: But what if I sewed everything I’m wearing for the next six months. Use up the stash. What could I make? The BurdaStyle Anda dress with nursing overlay. The HotPatterns Sugar Babe outfit with green…

Swimsuit

So last year I bought (size S) a swimsuit for nursing. It has a double-layered front with underlayer that has openings. I can nurse discreetly, cover my belly. But my belly is pretty trim now, and I think I want…