Exploring Life In The Grit Of The Earth
Posted in Do It Yourself, Sewing on Jan 19th, 2012
From the moment my daughter saw this in a magazine months ago, she has been begging me to make one for her. So, this morning, since we have been working on types of triangles and degrees of angles, I thought we’d work it into todays lessons. I planned on making a tutorial for you all, [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, Knitting, Mothering, Sewing on Dec 30th, 2011
What beautiful holiday celebrations we have had this year! I am so grateful for the time that I have been able to spend with my friends and family. We’ve spent many days traveling to others houses to participate in their revelry and had a wonderful time! At our own home, we had a small Winter [...]
Posted in Home Schooling, Mothering, Sewing on Dec 6th, 2011
Kaia has been begging me for sewing lessons lately. She’s done a simple square purse on my machine before, but this time she decided to do something with a real pattern. She chose a fabulous owl pillow. I had to stop my hands from taking over and really let her do it all. I gave [...]
Here it is! My first quilt!! I’m so excited! And I love how it turned out! We spent much of the afternoon playing I-Spy, building forts, and snuggling under it. Kaia really wants to keep it on her bed, but I think it will be a while before I want to hide it away in [...]
Posted in Sewing on Aug 13th, 2011
This will be my first quilt. I can’t wait to see it all put together. It’s called an “I Spy” quilt:
Posted in Do It Yourself, Mothering, Sewing on Jun 12th, 2011
Kaia and Leif LOVE playing in tents, so when I saw this project, a little A-Frame play tent, I knew we had to do it! It was so simple, we were able to make both kids their own tent in less than an hour! Kaia made the measurements while Toby drilled the holes. Then I [...]
Posted in Chickens/Ducks, Knitting, Mothering, Pets, Sewing on Dec 28th, 2010
It was almost exactly this time last year that we had the big snow of ’09 and got snowed in for a week. Well, we are snowed in again and actually have been since Christmas. We’ve played in tents, made snow cream, baked, gone sledding, read, and just relaxed. The duck surprised us on Christmas [...]
Posted in Sewing on Dec 28th, 2010
I was really excited when Ikatbag began her Pocket series. Being fairly new to sewing, I tend to go for patterns with a simple pocket. But her series (with 25 posts!) covered all kinds of pockets, and how to create them, in very easy to understand steps. If you are looking for a great pocket [...]
Posted in building our home, General, Mothering, Organic Gardening, Sewing on Jun 21st, 2010
We’ve had a great spring here on our land. Things have felt really productive. But, I have to tell you, we are beat! I wake up in the morning, jump out of bed and get going. Laundry, taking care of the animals, garden care, kitchen clean up, etc. all comes before breakfast. Most nights I [...]
Posted in building our home, Home Schooling, Sewing on May 31st, 2010
The 2 year old roof. Spots are filling in pretty well. I think I’ll give it one more year and then plant a few more things if needed. I absolutely love all the color on the roof right now. It’s like a patchwork quilt! And the yard is coming along, too. After 2 years of [...]
I love, love, love this fabric and how Kaia’s new dress turned out! It’s a really simple pattern by Heather Ross, and it was also my first time working with elastic thread (fun!). The pattern is actually for adults so I altered it for Kaia. Isn’t it sweet! I’m definitely going to be making more, [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, Mothering, Sewing on Apr 13th, 2010
I’ve been wanting to make Leif this doll for a while now. He’s so into taking things apart, pushing buttons, pulling levers…. I thought he’d enjoy it. It was a lot of fun to make! If you want to make one for your favorite little explorer you’ll need: fabric for the body (I used an [...]
Last week, my father-in-law passed on boxes of sewing goodies from his mother’s stash (so, that would be Kaia and Leif’s great-grandmother)! She was an avid seamstress and had some fabulous stuff! Look at this: There were 4 boxes of lace like this! This is just begging to be the hem of a frilly dress [...]
Here it is! My first official sewing project from my lessons! I’m calling her the “You are a Sassy, Sexy Housewife-Mama, and you Know It!” apron. And Look! It’s reversible! Isn’t it cute??!! If you want your own, you can get the pattern from Pretty-Ditty. While I wasn’t working on the apron, I made some [...]
Posted in Do It Yourself, Sewing on Dec 13th, 2004
Check out this awesome scarf I made for K. I am certainly not a seamstress. So, I am very proud of myself for completing this scarf. And isn’t the fabric great!! It’s so cute!! K hates it!