Perfecting the Art of Insanity, One Day at a Time
My baby sister has finally been diagnosed with cancer, a form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma called mycosis fungoides. Like happens with so many of us, her wildly obvious symptoms got blown off by the American medical community for years and years. This is a thankfully a slow growing cancer. It’s still fatal if left untreated…
Sew-and-So After sifting through a gallon jar of buttons, I settled one one ginormous honking button at the collar, because why not? It has a match if I decide to add a second, but I’m kind of liking the one-button look. The sleeves will be edged in black, using self-made bias tape. Amazon delivered a…
I bought the blouse pattern I was eyeing and have earmarked it for my next project. I still want to do the purple polka dot, but it got sidelined. Again. I buy PDF patterns, which entails downloading, printing multiple pages, taping them together like a puzzle, and cutting out the respective pieces. Unfortunately, our printer…
I posted yesterday, made it password protected, then changed my mind, making it a public post, only without the photo I took of G. (He’s crazy paranoid about having his photo online, justifiably so. He has an ex on par with some of mine, only mine had the good grace to die.) My sewing adventures…
Alert: this post is sewing and photography. If they’re not your bag, you might want to skip this one. My first top — which was comfy but made with vintage fabric — but the dust within 24 hours of first wearing. I’m pretty sure the material sat in someone’s shed in the heat since circa…