Evidence of Craft

Two grocery bags, one Zipper Organizer from My Spare Time, one Buttercup Bag designed by Made by Rae.  Love that little bag pattern.  These are all end-of-year teacher gifts for the kindergartener’s teacher and her daughter. The fabric came from a neighbor’s stash-clearing and has also provided for a wrap skirt.  The furry animal prints came from Goodwill.  

The inside of the growly Buttercup Bag. Tame on the inside.  I actually made two of these, so that the teacher and her daughter could share. 

A light-weight denim Buttercup Bag for me, and a plain vanilla grey sock for Sonar X8. Denim from the stash. Patons Kroy 4-ply from a Christmas gift.

Some dollar-a-yard fabric that will be perhaps a bag or book cover, and the in-progress Checkerboard Lace Scarf from The Purl Bee in KnitPicks Gloss lace in Celery. Love these colors.  

Mother’s Day plaster of Paris handprints of the family, with two for Dad so he can send one to his mom.

 Lego Love for Mother’s Day, courtesy of Sonar X8.

I have wanted a rolling desk chair for a while.  Here is what we came up with.  I saved the green metal desk chair from a neighbor’s trash. The wood for the platform was scrap from the garage. Partner purchased only the casters from the local hardware store. Now I can roll from the desk to the sewing machine and back again.  When we have extra dinner company, the chair lifts off the platform to visit the table. The platform can also be used to roll down the hallway pushed rapidly by siblings.  

More grocery bags from neighbor’s de-stashed fabric (the pale green).  A pair of them take less than an hour to make and make great hostess or teacher or thank you gifts.  The hint of orange is an old pillowcase that I use for my sewing machine cover.  The red is the couch with a woven wool Mexican blanket draped over the back. 

Coming soon: Wrap skirt, more zipper bags, and an idea for a book cover/travel log kit.

Twitter subtracts from the blog

Shh.  I know.  I thought Twitter was stupid too.  But I don’t so much anymore.  It’s become an occasional diversion, and a useful tool for communication and information dissemination.  I like it.  I do.

But when I Twitter, I don’t blog.  

I also don’t blog when I’m doing a marathon writing event, which I was doing last month.  I’m happy to share that I finished my Script Frenzy script last month!  The Benevolent Society of Angry Misanthropes (working title), came in at a little over one-hundred pages, including the extensive dialogue that summarized the entire end in five pages.  

In other news, there has been craft.  Much craft, mostly sewing, with some knitting.  So, if I can’t manage to communicate in more than 140 characters, then perhaps I can at least share some photos.  You can have that to look forward to.  

Oh, and in spite of the stuffy head and mild fever I’ve suffered the last week, we don’t have flu.  Bovine, ovine, or porcine.  And we won’t have to suffer through a flu-cation from school.  Or as the Corpus Christi newspaper called it, Swine Break ‘09.