I’ve probably known how to sew almost as long as I’ve known how to knit (and that’s a long time!), but I’ve never felt very comfortable around a sewing machine. I’ve never, for example, installed a zipper. I was going to once, but then I realized I don’t even know …
Affiliate links are included for your convenience. My girl is tall for her age. At 2.5 she’s about as tall as some of the 3-year-olds she knows. Officially she’s in about the 90th percentile for height for her age. But she’s also skinny, so just buying bigger clothes isn’t really …
My girl, like a lot of kids, loves to color. I like to keep some crayons and paper in my purse for restaurants and other situations where waiting might be involved. But I wanted something a little nicer than a zip bag full of crayons. Thanks to Pinterest (of course!) …
Last year sometime I read an article online, which I did not keep so I can’t give credit to, all about using teen and women’s formal dresses from the thrift store as dress up clothes for little girls. I thought this was a fabulous idea, and when my MOPS group …
When it first started getting cold, the Bit went through a brief legwarmer phase. She wanted to wear them to bed (which was great, because she never wants to wear socks, and is sketchy about using a blanket, so any little extra warmth she can get is fine by me) …
So, it’s Finish it Up Friday, and I had big designs on this day. I had a really awful night (toddler screaming at 4 a.m. kind of awful) so I didn’t have as much energy as I might have liked, but I still got some good work accomplished. Let’s see. …
I used to, at the beginning of 2011, have an occasional feature on my knitting site called “Finish it up Friday.” One of my resolutions had been to either finish or frog (that’s knitter-speak for ripping out a project) as many of my on-the-needles projects as possible. It didn’t last …
