Friday, April 24, 2009

The production of pants


I've had pants on the brain for a while. I'm not a fan of those tight legging type pants for babies and Conor only has 2 pairs of wide leg pants that still fit. Does a baby really need more than 2 pairs of pants? Probably not, but seeing as how he's too little for sunscreen this summer I thought a pair of linen pants would be perfect. I tweaked a Burda pattern 9711 to make this pair. They're roomy, but I think the tight striped onsie, makes them appear bigger than they are. Sadly, the onsie will have to be retired after today, but I had to pair it with the pants. After all, the day may come when my son doesn't allow me to dress him as a French sailor...
The crocheted blanket he's sitting on is a gift from a good friend of my husband's family, Madeline Percoco. We've received several beautiful handmade blankets for Conor, and this is one of my favorites.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Welcome Conor!


Our latest and most flawless project was completed February 13th and is going to be taking precedent over any projects of the sewing and painting variety. Not that I was a very prolific blogger to start with, but I'll likely be posting even less for the next few months, if that is possible. I do have a large stretched canvas awaiting a painting for a very important client (you know who you are), and a baby sweater to finish knitting, but otherwise my craftiness is limited to having a donut and coffee while holding a bottle in place with my chin. Until then..

Monday, February 9, 2009

Poladroid



I recently stumbled about this site where you can download a free software program onto to convert digital photos into polaroid-style images! The program adds a polaroid camera icon to you computer that you then drag your photos into. It then spits them out and you can even 'shake' them with your mouse until the color comes in. Brilliant! I need to figure out if I can print them...

Friday, January 23, 2009

Watch me use serendipitous






During a very serendipitous afternoon a few weeks ago, we came into a lovely old rocking chair.

We had gone to fabric world in search of 1960s style buttons to sew onto an old coat I picked up at goodwill back in the summer. We came up empty handed and I still don't really get how they stay in business, when they haven't rotated their inventory since 1972? Anyhoo we decided to go into St. Johns for lunch. On the way there, we walked past an vintage furniture shop and decided to pop in. We had been thinking about getting a rocking chair, but were unsure where we would fit it in our tiny house.

There were a few small rockers in the shop, but they were expensive and not quite appealing enough to shift furniture around for. Then we came upon our landlady whom we hadn't seen in a while. She was on bike and picking up a great old piano bench. We mentioned we were there looking at the rockers when she said, 'Oh you need a rocking chair? I have one on my porch you can have. Why don't you swing by and drop my stuff off and pick up the rocker?'

Never ones to pass on free, and knowing that she has excellent taste, we stopped by and voila there was this perfect sized old style wooden rocker with a padded seat. I liked the original fabric fine, but it had a small stain and I can't really resist an opportunity to buy new upholstery fabric. I also wanted to add some cushioning to the seat to make it really plush. I ended up getting the fabric with the little birds at bolt. I wasn't sure about it when I got it home but now I lurve it and it goes great with these. I meant to photograph the re-upholstering process since we re-did the webbing and built up the layers of cotton, but somehow between being a bossy flossy control freak (no! staple here!), I forgot the camera.. Thanks to my husband for his infinite patience. Oh and I did find some great big black buttons at the same shop.

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Winter blast 2008...



is good for making cookies.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Hot Stuff!


2 posts in one day! Unheard of.
I've been sewing potholders lately. It all started with this book. I love the faux chenille ones, and they're so quick and easy. I hope to make some more for holiday gifts. I mean, who doesn't need a potholder?

Nature abstract


Acrylic on braced luan

I painted this the other day in a frenzy to produce something to fill a blank spot on our bedroom wall. I gathered some leaves and pine cones while out walking Vinny and used them to start drawing shapes. It's rare that I paint something with our house in mind. I usually like to have other people's art up in the house, but can't afford any large pieces.

Abstracts are not usually my thing, but it's growing on me..
 

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