Will named Ellie Cucumber James. Which is fantastic. It’s like Indiana Jones. I have, however, requested that she be Cucumber Jane since it’s a little more girly.
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Monthly Archives: September 2010 I re-caught the fabric bug too late to catch the Flea Market Fancy fabric line, but I was up early enough one morning this week to snatch up this amazing quilt by Ashley of Film in the Fridge. It’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to make for baby/kiddo shoots, so I had to test it […]  I love chickens. I want to keep chickens and would probably really lobby Nic to make a chicken coop for me if it wasn’t for chicken poop. I say it’s the foxes that we see all spring, but really, it’s the poop. So if I can’t have chickens I *can* have a chicken skirt. I […] Will has mastered pronouncing Eloise. Which makes me sad because for a long time it was Ellie-Weeze and then it was Ellies for a few weeks.  Ellie’s baby quilt was my first ‘breaking the rules’ quilt. I started small–just breaking the “quilt finishing” rules that I hate anyway. I didn’t use batting or binding–just made the top from a Moda charm pack, slapped some bright pink fleece on the back, ran a couple of lines of quilting through it and called […]  I was seduced by the Practicality Bag pattern for one very important reason: it involves no interfacing or canvas lining. Huzzah! It makes a great diaper bag, but next time I might sew a zippered pocket into it because I do worry about my phone falling out of it since it’s so floppy. Pattern: Practicality […] |
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