Thursday, August 20, 2026

pink and green t-shirt dress

 The skirt is a heavier/glossier knit/jersey fabric. It worked when I pinned it, but when I sewed it the weight of the heavier skirt (it's got four pieces) dragged it down. The key loop also somehow ended up in the wrong place. I have another pink shirt and more fabric, so I might try again maybe with less fabric in the skirt, or shortening the shirt. I'll have to think about it.


red panda t-shirt dress

 I'm slowly working my way through projects. I took care of a bunch of mending and am working on the stuff I had stockpiled. This is a thin/cheap jersey fabric that I cut just two double-sided pieces out of. I braided a loop for my keys.





Puzzle

 This was a Ravensburger puzzle with fungi. It was sitting on my puzzle table for... a long time. I finished it in the spirit of finishing projects and because I got a new puzzle I wanted to do... and discovered a piece missing. Hopefully it turns up somewhere on the floor, but it was probably vacuumed in one of my (infrequent) cleaning bouts.


Sunday, August 9, 2026

Reading Buddies

I give away Reading Buddies at the library as prizes for our Read and Grow program. We were down to a couple very badly made creatures so I ran off a whole bunch. These still need to be stuffed and sewn up. Or, in the case of the gingerbread shapes, hand-sewn as they are hard to do on a machine. I've learned that fleece is better than felt. Most of these were cut by teen volunteers, so I had to trim some a lot and the ones cut on our die-cut (the horses) don't have matching sides. Then again, a kid took the "swamp witch" I accidentally made so...