Tribbles

These little pompoms keep multiplying, like Tribbles :)

Pom!

Oh hello, my little blog, it's been so long! I have been making things, but not posting. But here's a little something I made this morning, from a Japanese crafting book of pompoms. I am sure that I am missing a lot in the instructions, but the diagrams give the basic gist of wrapping the yarn to make an apple, a burger, a flower, a Russian nesting doll, and more. I am slightly obsessed. This is the second apple I made, and it possibly got a better haircut than the first. That's the main thing I figured out, cut, cut, cut, and cut some more, it really does improve the look. Here's hoping that I will be back soon.

Milk Fresh Words

...And I'm back! Let's jump right to it, shall we?

So here are few things I made about 2 weeks back at a Sewing Bee. Oh how I love five hours of dedicated sewing time!

I made three lunchbags, based loosely on patterns from this book. The elephant bag is for my four year old daughter and the mermaids is for my six year old daughter. They both seem really pleased with the fabric I chose for them. I made the wood-grained bag for my husband. Not sure if he'll carry it, but I like it.



And how much do I love my new present from Jessica? Do you know what this is? It's not just any measuring tool, that there's metric. It makes all the difference when you're working from patterns that measure in centimeters. I don't know how I ever crafted from a Japanese pattern without it.



I used up the last little scraps of fabric to make these snack bags to segregate part of the lunch for the afterschool program.



In other sewing news, I started cutting out some IKEA fabric for a messenger bag. They have some really interesting heavyweight fabric at affordable prices. Unfortunately I got confused about the pattern pieces (there are several that you fold to cut out a totally different piece, and honestly, it's a lot to keep track of.) In the end I need to go back to IKEA for more fabric. I love this, it has kind of a Pucci-esque vibe that I really dig.



And the title is what my four year old asked me to write on her belly with face paint.

I'll be back, I have lots more news!

Thrifty Scores & Other Fun

If you know me at all, you know I love to thrift shop. Now, I'm not a hard-core digger, I'm more of a frequent dabbler. But I still find my fair share of goodies.

Like vintage sewing patterns...



I already cut out the fabric to make two of this girls skirt.





And a framed picture of two ladies playing croquet, just because.


And look at what fun vintage crafty magazines the lovely Ms Brazil kindly brought to me. You are a sweetie!



Any book that instructs you to shave a monkey is pure gold!



And another treat that I picked up for myself, this one is from Kinokuniya. I have been meaning to get this lovely title for a long time, Machine Made Patchworks.