I don’t think you’re supposed to keep the knitting urge when it’s Spring and the garden is growing, but I do still have the knitting urge, so that’s that. I am a whim-follower. This week, my whim is to knit a Tasha Tudor shawl. Never mind that I’m knitting it in wool and we are [...]
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Project: Knitting a Shawl Like Tasha Tudor’s
Posted in creativity, tutorials, tagged crafting, knitting, tasha tudor on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Studio Shots
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, design, fabric, sewing, studio on March 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
These are a few shots of my (very humble) studio in the back of the garage. If you click on the photos, you’ll go to Flickr (in a separate window), and there you can view some detail notes that I wrote about the things you see.
A Good Morning
Posted in our everyday, photography, tagged aprons, crafting, garden, goats, knitting on March 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I donned my favorite apron this morning.
Apron donned, the first thing I did was sneak out my bedroom’s back door (God bless the builder who thought of that door) to check on the garden. If I don’t sneak, I have 4 little people follow me out and then we get distracted and our day never starts with [...]
A Handmade (by Children) Birthday
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, embroidery, knitting, painting, sewing, softies on February 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
For our Little Gal’s recent birthday, we wanted to resist the temptation of giving her plastic toys that only cost $1 (bargain!) but that break within 24 hours (not a bargain!). Still, we needed to give Little Gal something for her birthday. So we turned to the overflowing craft drawers/bins/shelves/baskets/closets and found things to make. Everyone [...]
Shots: New Photos of the Disappearing 9 Patch Quilts
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, photography, quilting, sewing on February 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Our beautiful Gulf Coast sun came out again, after a day and a half of hiding. Oh, how I missed it, sun-spoiled-soul that I am. I was able to get some better shots of the Disappearing 9 Patch quilts for you.
Above are thumbnail peeks at the photos. Click them for larger views, or….
Go to these posts to [...]
Project: A Tutorial for the Disappearing 9 Patch Quilt Top
Posted in creativity, tutorials, tagged crafting, quilting, sewing, tutorials on February 21, 2008 | 10 Comments »
There has been quite a bit of interest in the Disappearing 9 Patch quilt top I made a couple of weeks ago. That humbles and surprises me, new quilter that I am. (Thank you.) When I started a new one for our Little Gal who is turning 5 tomorrow (sob), I thought I’d photograph the process [...]
Project: Knitting a Hot Pink Gift for a Little Sister
Posted in creativity, tutorials, tagged crafting, knitting, tutorials on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I walked into our girls’ room this morning to find the room had been picked up (check), the blinds were open (check), the sheets were taken off the bed for today’s laundry (check), and then…
I found this on the bed, next to an Easter hat and a pile of stuffed animals.
It looks like our 10 year [...]
Ack! The Little Ones Want to Knit, Too
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, knitting on February 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It makes me giggle to even entertain the notion that I can answer a knitting question with any degree of knowledge whatsoever. I’m pretty new at knitting, having only just recently passed the knit 2 rows, frog 2 rows (“rip it, rip it”) stage. But after yesterday’s post, someone asked this:
What age is best to start knitting?
The [...]
Project: Tuesday Afternoon Knitting Class
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, knitting on February 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Every Tuesday afternoon, if you’re at the right house at the right time, you’ll see a group of young ladies doing this:
Our 10 year old ballerina is on the left. She’s knitting a blue hat for her little sister’s birthday next week. I wish I had taken photos of her first attempts to show her how far she’s [...]
Shots: Fabric Inspiration
Posted in creativity, tagged crafting, fabric, quilting, sewing, studio on February 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
These fabric stacks are on a shelf in my studio*:
I spend more time opening them, admiring them, refolding them, and restacking them than I do in using them up, I think…
because I just love the way fabric feels, from the scratchy ones to the fuzzy ones.
Don’t you?
Photos by Lori Seaborg, February 2008
studio = *that oh-so-loosely-used-term [...]
Project: A Disappearing 9 Patch Quilt Top
Posted in creativity, tutorials, tagged crafting, quilting, sewing, tutorials on February 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Note: A full tutorial has now been written and photographed. Click to read “Tutorial: A Disappearing 9 Patch Quilt Top.”
As I mentioned, our ballerina and I are taking a quilting class soon. But, being myself, I just couldn’t wait a full week until the class, so over the weekend I used this tutorial to make a Disappearing 9 Patch incubator-sized [...]
Project: Turning a Child’s Art into Embroidery
Posted in creativity, tutorials, tagged crafting, embroidery, sewing, tutorials on February 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Our children like to embroider their drawings. The following one was created by our eldest daughter (the ballerina) when she was 8 years old. Just this week she created another one (she is now 10). Below is a tutorial that originally posted in 2006 on my homeschool blog:
STEP ONE:
First, draw a picture. This is a picture [...]
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