happy stuff.

my college roommate (and very dear friend) drove out (across several states!) to visit us (with her two kids ages 2 and 4!) a few weeks ago.  while she was here, i snuck some of her kids’ clothes out of their suitcase make patterns so that i could try out my new 90-minute shirt tutorial [...]

who says girls get all the cute clothes?  check out these rompers i made for the happy baby (using a few alterations on the 90-minute shirt tutorial): i especially love the back on the striped one where i added a freezer paper stencil of a design i sketched (to cover up a stain from the [...]

in an era of trimming down my google reader in a vain attempt to spend less time on the computer, it is only a very exceptional blog that gets added to my list these days.  yesterday, i followed a link from somewhere and “discovered” made by joel.  granted, this is not the first time i’ve [...]

here’s the current state of my common threads “bookshelf” quilt (hooray for the process pledge!).  last night i finally finished sewing all of the strips of books together (after adding about 30″ of my own “books”).  i have to give a big thank you to everyone in the common threads quilt bee who contributed to [...]

i got several requests to see the process of my reading fox design, and so i’ve created this blog post which should give hope to everyone out there who thinks they “can’t draw.”  i’m surprised to find that it feels a little scary to show you all of my rough drafts and to talk about [...]

awhile back, i’d posted that my crafting/children’s librarian/bloggy friend, small fox had invited me to be part of an “art exchange.”  i’m pretty sure that the chain ended with me (i can’t really blame anyone for not signing up — i don’t do them myself 99.2% of the time) and so i decided that at [...]

okay, you caught me.  this is another baby-related post, but it’s also a furniture makeover and i am soooo excited about it, i just had to share it with you.  a little back story:  when we started to decorate the nursery, one of the pieces of furniture i knew i wanted to have in there [...]

it seems to be all i want to do these days–make stuff for the happy baby!  maybe if you’re lucky my next post will be about food or flowers or something.  :) this installment of crafting-for-baby includes binky leashes made with purchased clips i found at a local scandinavian imports store and japanese linen tapes [...]

i finally got my hands on a library copy of lotta jansdotter‘s book, simple sewing for baby and it is so inspiring!  in fact, despite my pile of things to do (top of the list:  take care of baby who is developing a shorter nap habit, yikes!) i dropped everything to make two projects right [...]

i finally finished sewing curtains for the baby room!  i decided to use the six-minute circle technique and just make one really big circle out of the same inspiration fabric i’ve used all over the room.  i originally had these elaborate curtain hanging plans that had to do with swing arms, but in the end, [...]