If you missed the first part of this tutorial, you can find it over here. As promised, I took another picture of the finished sleeve lap to show how it is constructed. Though mine differs from the pattern, the construction is the same.
Now that that’s out of the way,… Read the rest...
Before we even begin, I have to apologize for 3 things.
1. This was the first pattern I ever made. I had no idea what I was doing, I just really wanted one of my dolls to have a dress shirt. It isn’t perfect and could probably stand to be… Read the rest...
I’m not a big fan of resolutions, but I like goals. Goals are really compatible with lists, and I think we’ve been over how much I like lists before, right?There’s a lot of reasons not to like resolutions, but since statistics indicate making something a resolution makes it less likely… Read the rest...
“But you don’t work.”It’s a common insinuation that stay-at-home mothers have to fight–the idea that because they’re home all day, they don’t work. Every day, I see countless posts on social media sites sharing articles written by exhausted and exasperated mothers explaining just how hard they work. I get it,… Read the rest...
It’s been a long time since I’ve felt any sort of Christmas spirit, something I’ve chalked up to working in retail. Working at a craft supply store was worst, because it meant Christmas started at the end of June. But it’s been two years since I left my job, and… Read the rest...
Okay, there’s really no extravaganza here, it just sounded like a really cool post title.
So in case you couldn’t tell, this is the 200th post to my blog. Wow! 200 posts. It’s also been 3 years since I started blogging. That anniversary passed back in November, and I spent… Read the rest...
Ah, green tea. I’d really like to add green tea to every morning, both for the joy of drinking tea and for the health benefits green tea offers, but so far I haven’t found enough types of green tea I like to make me want to drink it every day.… Read the rest...