I caught this golden glow on the trees just before 6 am on my morning walk. It only lasted a few minutes but it warmed my heart. This morning I got a surprise text from my favorite barista, Jessica, that her son is being baptized on Monday. Owen was born here on May 8th but […]
It’s Monday and we are settling into a new groove. The day started off with rain and thus I did an indoor workout on the Bow Flex. I find that my mental health is much improved when I get the endorphins going via exercise. I had a long list of things to do but that […]
I had the privilege of test sewing another Sew Sew Live pattern, this time the Chicken Boots Zip Double. It’s a roomy bag that keeps all the contents secure inside thanks to a zipper closure. There is an internal pocket faced with vinyl allowing for a peek-a-boo feature. The edges are finished with bias tape. […]
I am not a super crunchy granola person (though I do make a mean batch) but I am becoming more and more aware of what kind of footprint I want to leave. To that end, I have been seeking an alternative to cotton balls for makeup removal. A while back I knit some little squares […]
Every now and then, knitting goes awry. A pair of socks I made and gifted to my friend, Liz, developed a hole. I noticed it when she was wearing them and told her I would fix it before it got worse. While many people believe you should darn a sock by standing over the trash […]
Presenting the Chicken Boots Project Bag by Sew Sew Live. I was introduced to Chicken Boots bags a few years ago and I was very impressed by their quality and workmanship. The owner has shifted her focus from production to pattern writing and was looking for people to test for her. I was so excited […]
Just in the nick of time, we got the sashes for Camp Ondessonk completed. The rest of the sewing for camp was done in the car on the drive to the airport. These are the faces that motivated me and thanked me for my help making it all worthwhile.
With our first weeks of camp on the immediate horizon, the goal of finishing Mason’s lodge sashes for Camp Ondessonk gained priority. These sashes are quite the undertaking. When I pulled out the materials from our last big sewing session, I was delighted to discover we were more than halfway there. We just had the […]
Mason and Walker are both proud Camp Ondessonk Lodge members. Recently, they reminded me that there is such a thing as a lodge arrowhead. To earn this arrowhead, the boys each need to attend a lodge reunion weekend, do a few service projects at camp and make 40 lodge sashes. Mason wanted to make his […]
It was a happy moment when I realized that my friend, Amanda, was teaching a quilt class while the boys and Bill were at camp. It didn’t matter that the class was being offered in a city about as far away from mine in Indiana. Getting to quilt with her has been on my bucket […]