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Look! I spied a wild Kavi-fairy going to a party…

Sewists, help? I’m having trouble with these instructions. 1) Do they mean me to add seam allowance when I’m cutting out the fabric for the main pieces, or just the facings? 2) I understand how to cut the front openings, because they give it as straight strips with dimensions — I just cut what they

So before I got sick, I’d set aside today as a sewing day, with nothing else scheduled, so I could try making a proper sari blouse for the first time. In theory, along with a sari, it’s both my Halloween costume (just for standing at the door and giving out candy) and something I’ll wear

My neighbors have a tree that’s particularly lovely this year. Something about the weather means that we’re having the best tree-color autumn we’ve had in Oak Park since I moved here 13 years ago. It’s truly lovely wandering around town right now. I mean, it’s no New England on the leaf-peeping front — you need

I am TRYING to be patient with convalescence and reminding myself that healing from sickness is a job too, but good lord. I’ve spent something like 4 solid days’ worth of time so far this week not working, and it is starting to drive me out of my mind. That said, while I’m doing better

Fabric arrived with my Wonderland mushroom design. I like it! Tomorrow, we sew scarves for the Interstellar treat boxes…

Gah, Kavi brought home a cold, which I have now caught. She was sick Saturday-Tuesday (and has gone cheerfully off to school today), and I started coughing yesterday (worse today, sigh, sounds like croup), so I have some hope to be done with it by the weekend. Roshani (local doctor friend) says there’s a roughly

Someone just bought a test swatch of my Snowdrop Varieties fabric, which is funny because I was JUST planting summer snowflake bulbs for next spring and thinking about how they are like snowdrops, but not really. But mostly, I really want to know what they’re planning to make with the fabric! Alas!

A little late-night Wonderland mushroom drawing. I think it’d be cute on autumn decor, or a scarf, perhaps…