It's been a really long time since my last post and even longer since the last post on a sewing project. This is what happened: Early last spring I finally started feeling fully energized again and motivated to finally move forward with some of my research. So for several months I focused on work. The … Continue reading The Small Forest Backpack — Part 2: Assembly and demo
The thought of writing this post has been with me for a while. What made me finally write it, was a comment I saw in a support group for people who suffer from an autoimmune disease called Sjogren’s Syndrome. I’m a member of this group. I joined a few months after getting diagnosed (the path … Continue reading On learning how to live in a different body
I mentioned in a previous post that I don't like throwing away potentially useful things and hence have accumulated a large collection of scrap fabric. A fun way to use up scraps, is to piece them together to form a patchwork fabric. I enjoy this a lot, because you get to essentially make your own fabric … Continue reading Quilted coasters from scrap fabric
I have too much stuff. It's a direct consequence of me hating to throw things away that might still be useful (and in my imagination that applies to many, many things) and secondly I like to have options. In terms of fabric it means that I hold on to a large amount of scrap pieces … Continue reading Little fabric bucket
Like many, I frequently have trouble with neck and shoulder pain. Besides doing something wrong when I sit at work, I'm pretty sure running around with a heavy shoulder bag (I always like to have lots of things with me, especially my laptop) is not helpful. I do have backpacks of course, but I find … Continue reading The small forest backpack — part 1: materials, design and pattern making
This is the second post in a series about my first quilt project. In a previous post I described how I assembled four patchwork panels. Here I will describe the process of merging them into a single "sheet", which will later form the front side of a quilt, and how this sheet is then fused to the warm … Continue reading My first (full size) quilt — part 2
This is the first of several posts about my first proper quilt project. I started this project ages ago and kept coming back to it. I was inspired by an old patchwork blanket my mother had made when she was young and I also wanted to do something nice with a large collection of scrap … Continue reading My first (full size) quilt — part 1
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