Some of you are aware of my son’s interesting way of getting around. His scooting has lead to the following problem:
Which lead me to hack the following solution:
The Bum Shoe, as I have designated it, has already saved three other pair of trousers from certain doom this week alone.
If I were a Doofenshmirtzian Evil Scientist, I would probably call it the Bum Shoe-enator. But for now, I am not, and mostly just calling it awesome.
I just saw a darling quiet book sock matching page. Check it out at Imagine our Life HERE. The sock matching isn’t the only cute one on there, she has a whole bunch of adorable pages. I am in another quiet book exchange. I don’t know how I am going to find time to do this. Yikes.
This is a little trick I learned from my Quilt Guild ladies. You can make a half-square triangle without having to mark the line down the center of the top square. I made a video with a little help from my very talented mad scientist husband.
I think I may not have posted about this quilt at all, because I only had time to sew or blog, and sewing won! My cousin picked these fabrics and mailed them to me, and I did the labor as a gift for her and her baby, due next month. I am proud that I finished this so far before the due date.
The pattern is “Off Track” by Allison at Cluck Cluck Sew. I received “Seville” for Christmas this year, though my husband forgot to give it to me under the tree. We found it in his sock drawer sometime in January, when I got out a stack of new fabric an needed something to do with it. That was when I remembered having seen the telltale envelope in early December and asked him whatever happened to it.
I love the colors my cousin chose. I think the fabric line is “Taza.” I wouldn’t normally have picked this palette, but I am really happy with it, and it has inspired me to think outside of my normal color box more often.
Seville is my current Work in Progress:
I have a couple of possible hacks for this pattern, but I am not sure if they are improvements or not, so I’ll wait to see how it progresses to post about it.
I have wanted a camera strap cover for a long time, but I just never got around to making one. I started a large quilt top from a pattern I got for Christmas and needed something that finished Quick to make me feel good. This probably took less than half an hour, and I love the way it personalizes my camera strap.
Jenny Sews 