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larissa
When not playing or acting silly with my three kiddos, I knit and sew and quilt and bake and take lots of photos. Then I blog about it here.
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Love how you used the black fabrics in your quilt top.
Congratulations on your book - it's just lovely!
Quilting with different fabrics and QuiltEssential giveaway
Have you ever wanted to move beyond quilting cotton to other fabrics in your quilts? I wrote a blog post for Sew, Mama, Sew about just that. It's full of good information to get you quilting with everything from denim to linen to velveteen and more. As part of the post, they are also hosting a...
Sending you best wishes for this weekend. Enjoy the race.
Slow and steady - you can do it!
And your bed is made (first photo)- looks like you're doing well in 2014. I have yet to make mine!
lately
How’s 2014 been treating you? It seems that I’ve picked up right where I left off. I’m not one to get into the whole “new beginnings” and whatnot, I just try to keep up! So far, so good. The only new thing I committed to this year is a photo 365 - again. I start every year and always qui...
Love the color and how you are stitching around the fabric design.
My quote for this year is "do not hurry. do not rest." Everything will get done - just not necessarily right now! Have a great weekend!
insta-update
April? Already? Woosh! Busy busy busy, that’s my only excuse. I hate leaving this place hanging, so I figured a little update via my instagram feed (@artsycraftybabe) is better than nothing, but honestly, I think my IG feed is a little boring at the moment. Spring down here is glorious, b...
So fun to see your work prcess.
I piece in a similar fashion avoiding inset seams at all costs.
Free Play - Thursday
I didn't get to log any free play yesterday - Wednesdays as a rule are super busy. But, I did sneak upstairs to the design wall for about fifteen or twenty minutes after dinner and arranged the blocks until I was satisfied with how they looked. I envision this quilt as asquare so I left blan...
Love the pink binding for your star quilt. Totally agree with the comments on bias edges - I've been working with them a lot lately and they require extra care. That needlepoint looks like so much fun - enjoy!
Weekend Stitching
I've got my hands on all kinds of projects at the moment. The crazy star quilt has its binding attached on the front and is just waiting for me to slow down and stitch it onto the back. I started slicing up the Liberty strips I bought in October for Anna Maria's feathers. I'm...
Gorgoeus photos of your kiddos! I think it has to do with Spring and the light - I can't stop daydreaming about making either.
daydreaming
Today began as a rainy, gloomy Monday. A Monday that started in complete darkness. It felt like I left for work in the middle of the night. There are many places I would have rather been on this Monday than at the office, but that's where I was, physically. Mentally, I often go elsewhere. I...
I absolutely love your album. I just started Project Life last week and have already ordered lots more photo sheets. Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Project Life :: 2012
I just completed my 2012 Project Life project. What is Project Life? It's a scrapbooking system that is the brain child of Becky Higgins. For me, it's scrapbooking light. Take the photos, print the photos, journal a little and stick it all in a binder. You don't need a dozen different embel...
Love the first photo with all those lovely bits of Liberty on your cutting mat. And your pincushion is just perfect. Can't stop sewing these days either - it's what keeps me sane.
Liberty Love
I've had Alexia Abegg's book Liberty Love for awhile now and I really cannot say enough good things about it. It's beautiful to look at with a wide range of projects. There are bags and quilts and clothes. Things for children, women and men. And the best part? While they all contain gorgeou...
Love these bags! They fit a ton but have a beautifully structured piece on top. And i just went to my own tutorial to sew an apron - it's not that we're getting old, it's just there's gosh darn so much to remember! Love your work so much!
new Nanettes
It never fails. As soon as I finish up a new pattern, I get the urge to freshen up my old ones. This time around Nanette got the spruce up. I made both versions - the rounded bottom and the boxed bottom - in bright solids and polka dots, always a favorite combination of mine. These mak...
Love these subtle pinwheels!
Totally looks like they're spinning.
Snow Oyster Quilt
I finally finished this quilt that I started in July at the Denyse Schmidt workshop I took in Portland at the PNCA. I am beyond thrilled with how it came out, mostly because it was a creatively inspiring exercise for me. Every step, from the colors I used to the quilting design and everythin...
What an awesome swap gift!
Cullin Cowl (x 8)
Over the years, I have been part of a craft swap group. Each person in the group chooses their own craft and makes one for each of the other swappers. We took a hiatus a couple of years back and just started swapping again this past summer/fall. When I found out that our next swap would be in th...
Looks like you had an amazing time! And your kiddos look so content in these photos. Definitely a trek worth making often!
focus: on family getaways
It's time for the third installment of focus, a little photo project that Larissa and I are collaborating on. Each week we hope to take time to Focus ourselves and to Focus our cameras. To Focus on looking and seeing, to Focus on how we spend our time, to Focus on friends and family and what's i...
As always, I love your sense of color and style. You always seem to come up with new ideas that are still clean looking and oh, so, wearable!
color blocked :: a new tote bag
Remember when I said that color blocking was floating my boat right now? I’m still all over it, turning that into my latest bag obsession. Yeah, all those fabrics were in preparation for some bag making. My first version used a navy denim-ish fabric paired with a pink dot and solid gold (ha...
You look amazing in your dress! What a beautiful fit.
What I do when I'm supposed to be packing
I know that I have been neglecting the blog when Fatty asks, "What? You don't post anymore?" Yep. Sorry. I didn't mean to be away for so long. I blame summer, people. It's busier than I'd like, but still oh so good. Our day to day changes, well, daily. And since I was last here, we've been to th...
Awesome post! I love your writing. Love truly is in the little things - thanks for putting it into words so beautifully. And you should post more often - i think posts are often better when we don't have anything "great" to report!
I want to talk about towels
I haven't been here in ages. I could talk about the progress on our house, or about the scorching heat followed by fantastic rain last week (followed by more heat), or about swimming and other summer niceties, or about the nasty summer colds four out of five members of our house currentl...
Sarah, ours is the hub of our house too. And it always has at least one electronic device, one book and one snack/meal that no one cleaned up on it too. Your tablecloth is so cheery and bright. As you can see I no longer even try to use tablecloths because at our house we can barely get through one meal without a spill! You asked about our table - it's the Sourav dining table from World Market\Cost Plus. We've only had it 6 months but it's a big, sturdy table with a lot of surface area and it cleans up easily with a wet cloth. Right now it's listed for $499 but about every other month they have a furniture sale and they'll let you know if you get on their emailing list (plus they also send 20% off coupons)- we got ours for $400.
Thanks so much for playing along. Yesterday was a busy, completely nutty day during which i couldn't get to the computer until really late and I would've never posted had it not been for this little project of ours. I'm so glad we're doing this together!
focus: on the kitchen table
It's time for the second installment of focus, a little photo project that Larissa and I are collaborating on. Each week we hope to take time to Focus ourselves and to Focus our cameras. To Focus on looking and seeing, to Focus on how we spend our time, to Focus on friends and family and what's ...
Your garden is wonderful. I miss our raised beds full of enriched soil. Your rainbow chard looks so beautiful and yummy. And how awesome is that little red carrot! In the meantime, we're buying all our produce from a local farm - out of a truck parked in a books-a-million parking lot. Love that you're able to grow so much of the food your family eats!
Focus
I am excited today to begin a little collaboration photography project with Larissa from Stitches in Play. We are working together, pushing one another just a bit to not only stop and notice but to truly Focus. Each week we hope to take time to Focus ourselves and to Focus our cameras. To Focu...
Love the square with the pink flower on the neutral background!
All together now
I can't believe a week has gone by since I've been here. Where does the time go? I have some fun things to share with you all and a dress to show off, but that will all have to wait. I did want to tell you that Blair asked if I would contribute to the granny square sampler this week and of c...
I do not enjoy hand stitching the binding down one bit either. Love the colors and how you chose to make each block it's own color accented by the yellow - just left a comment on beki's post about color blocking and how much I am loving it. I'm going to try to work with color blocks a bit and see what I come up with. Your girl will LOVE this - a quilt made with love truly does make the best gift ever!
a graduation quilt
There's a stack of quilt tops and blocks in my studio that I'm slowly plowing through. I finished this one at the beginning of May right before I left for Lindsay's graduation. Well, finished except for handsewing down the binding. I nearly machine stitched it on so I could bring it with me an...
Love how your sweet C, with those perfect baby fingers is going for the fabric! These are wonderful. I'm all about color blocking right now too. I'm even dressing in color blocks - right now i'm wearing a green tee with blue capris and yellow flats. Love your style - I may need a new bag...!
loving right now
solid colored fabrics color block totes mustard+navy+pink. well, any color with navy. sweet chunky baby chub thunder showers in the afternoon big checks in fun colors dreaming up new projects (uses for these fabrics!) grays + brights (and checks and stripes) sneaking in a little sewin...
How impressive are you! Love the pleated bottom on the bag. Love the colors you chose for your stars - i like the strong blues and reds so much better than the 'soft' colors that so many fabrics seem to come in.
making progress
When I started my star quilt I thought that it would be a summer-long project. Back in the day (ha ha), I'd whip a quilt out in no time, but considering the amount of sewing I get these days with little miss get-into-everything I knew that wasn't going to happen. Much to my surprise, I'm mak...
Love these! The best part of blogging is capturing the day to day. Your kiddos are growing so quickly - love the one of Ava in the high chair!
insta-living
Like many others, most of my daily captures take place on instagram. It's just so darned easy to take photos with my phone! Here's a peek at what's been going on this past week. If you're already following on instagram, well, I guess this is old news :) If you're over there, my username is @a...
Love the dandelion fabric.
What an awesome getaway!
Limited tv, healthy eating and bickering around here too - wouldn't have it any other way.
New York Spoils
We are home from New York. It was a good, long, exhausting and fun week. We saw Tara and Tim twice - the perfect bookends to a week in Manhattan where we shopped, walked, shopped, ate, walked, drank, ate, drank, walked, shopped our way through Manhattan. Did I mention the eating and dr...
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