Subject: Handmade
Handsewn Holiday Gifts and Projects
November 4, 2008 in Handmade
Holidays by Hand has started this week at Simple Mom with a variety of handmade sewing projects. My project is the simplest drawstring bag possible, made a little more unique with a vintage monogram. I can picture a few of these hanging as ornaments on the Christmas tree. Maybe they’d be a good place to hide [...]
Read more...“Holidays by Hand” Festival
October 26, 2008 in Handmade
Handmade gifts, ornaments, Christmas cards, and crafts you can make from paper.
Read more...Handmade Gifts: Baby Edition
June 3, 2008 in Handmade
I got so much satisfaction from sewing this weekend. Once I finally started, I got on a roll. And linen? Much easier to sew with, because it doesn’t stretch or slide around. I made a linen dress for Lane. No pattern, just rectangles sewn together. There’s an inverted pleat on the front for shaping. [...]
Read more...The Machine
May 31, 2008 in Handmade
I have a sewing machine that I inherited. It’s about 40 years old, and it’s a serious piece of machinery. It stays in the closet most of the time, and when I think I want to use it, I lift all 50 pounds of it on to the dining table. Then I sit there and [...]
Read more...In Search of Soap
March 1, 2008 in Handmade
It all started the first Christmas Doug and I were married. I put a bar of Scottish Fine Soap in Doug’s stocking. He liked it so much, the following Christmas I gave him a year’s supply of soap. The next year, however, the kind of soap he liked could only be imported from Scotland. We [...]
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