My sweet little baby is not yet very good at sleeping apart from me, though he does a great job at night next to me in bed, and during the day generally wrapped up in the moby (which has been a lifesaver for me!). I figure he spent the first nine months of his life… Read More »
Make knitting needles! A tutorial.
Here’s a little glimpse of a bigger project that I will tell you about in a bit. It involves making knitting needles, because yes, I’m too cheap to buy a bunch of needles at the store. For the same price as one pair of bamboo #7 needles, I made 8+ pair (I just haven’t finished… Read More »
Patching jeans, a tutorial.
So I have been a mother for 30 years. I have three of the male sex and four of the female. Can you imagine how many jeans we have had? Can you further imagine how many holes-in-the-knees we have had? Many, and many. It’s hard to describe to someone who hasn’t been through the exigencies… Read More »
A little tutorial to relieve stress from sewing thousands of tiny stitches.
I just want to show you a method I developed (well, I’ve never seen nor read about this anywhere) when I got in a panic because my hand really, really hurt after quilting. It hadn’t hurt for the first couple of quilts because I was young. But one day…pain was just radiating up my arm!… Read More »
Strawberry rhubarb pie
Once upon a time it wasn’t raining, and I took these pictures of my strawberry-rhubarb pie. Later I will take pictures — I will try — of a casserole that you will not believe the goodness of. But those pictures will not be sun-filled. They will be dark. This is not my fault, not that… Read More »