Pigeon Fabric by Mo Willems

May 20, 2013 by 1 Comment

One of my daughter’s favorite author’s at the moment is Mo Willems. She loves Pigeon! She also loves Elephant and Piggie. She loves all of his characters. She loves to draw the pigeon and has probably done about 30 or so drawings of what the pigeon can and can’t do (see the example below).

Let Pigeon slap Barney

This example is a mix of Pigeon and a tv show called “How I Met Your Mother”. In an episodes one of the characters gets permission to slap another character who’s name is Barney. This particular pigeon drawing is my favorite and it hangs up in my cubicle at work.

Earlier today the Hawthorne Threads newsletter came through my inbox and what was in there? Don’t let the Pigeon Drive the Bus fabric! OMG! I can’t wait to show my daughter…but then again, I may just have to surprise her. :)

Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus Fabric

Filed Under: fabric, Hawthorne Threads, Mo Willems, Pigeon

Making progress

May 19, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Making prgress

I think I really took my last post to heart. I DID need a good kick in the pants. I actually got a decent (yes, only decent) amount of progress done on the quilt top this weekend. It has mostly been from today, but I’m okay with that.

I ran into a bit of a snag when I sat down to start sewing. Since I had left out my pieces on my work table I realized that I was missing a piece. I think the ceiling fan blew it away, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. :O I even tried to pay my daughter if she would help me look, which only lasted about two minutes. I was in a sort of frantic state of mind. I only bought just enough to make the top, but I did have some leftover pieces that I could fit in to take the place of the messed up row. The thing that sucks now is that the one piece of fabric that was lost was one of the darker rows. Sad… But all is not lost, the replacement is still cute.

I ended up working for about four hours on the top and I think I’m about 60-65% of the way there. I always think making the top is the hardest part, that is, if the backing into too intricate. At this point, I am working on squaring off all of the smaller pieces. Once those are all done, all I will have to do is sew them together to make rows and then those rows will turn into the top. It’s getting close! I only have about three weeks until the baby shower, so that is motivation for me.

What about you? Have you made at least decent progress on a project this weekend, and if so, what did you do?

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A kick in the pants

May 17, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Well, it’s official. I need a good kick in the pants. I think with the traveling I have been doing for work, Tae Kwon Do and my daughter getting sick I have been too tired to sew. OMG! I can’t believe I just said that out loud! It’s true. I feel like it’s one of those hard things to admit because we never want to seem vulnerable, even to ourselves. This weekend I am going to take for myself and get a good chunk of the top done for one of the quilts I’m working on.bigcover Plus, I could use some more time to listen to my audio book.

Speaking of my audiobook, do any of you listen to audiobooks while you are quilting/sewing? If so, what do you like to listen to? I am currently on the 11th book of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. There are 14th books altogether and talk about epic! There are some slower points, but so far it’s been really cool.

Filed Under: audiobook, sewing

A new pattern for my birthday!

May 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment

Sorry I haven’t been missing for about a week. I went to Los Angeles for a convention for work. Don’t get me wrong, I had a lot of fun. I went to the big Adobe Max convention. It’s their big annual meetup with new classes, etc. They presented a lot of cool new things about Photoshop, InDesign and those other programs. On Tuesday night they threw a big party and we got to see The Black Keys perform. I had actually only heard about them a week before, but they were pretty solid. They reminded me of The White Stripes a bit. Anyhoo, it was my birthday while I was gone, and since Anna over at Noodlehead released her new Super Tote pattern I was super excited and got my own copy. Woohoo! I was thinking I might use some of my Tula Pink Birds and the Bees fabric I have with a bit of the linen, like in some of the pattern’s example photos. Pinks, Yellows and Browns? Yes, please.

What do you think? Have you seen the new pattern? Do you have any suggestions for me?

Filed Under: birthday, Noodlehead, sewing, Tula Pink

New Noodlehead purse pattern

April 30, 2013 by
New Bag Pattern from Noodlehead

New Bag Pattern from Noodlehead – Photo is from noodle-head.com

This is it! I have been waiting for about six months to find something that I really want for my next purse, and this is definitely it! This is a new pattern that hasn’t come out yet from Anna of Noodle-head.com, but it should be soon! I’m going to make this bag along with a new wallet pattern from the Zakka Style book all using materials from my stash. Woohoo for me and staying with my goals. The only problem now is to wait for the pattern to come out. I can wait…really I can. :)

Filed Under: bag, Noodlehead, sewing

12 common traits of creative people

April 29, 2013 by

Do you consider yourself creative? I’d like to think I’m creative, but I think my brain is actually split pretty closely down the middle between creative and logical. Considering I am a web designer by day and everything else by night, I think that’s just fine with me. I just happened to stumble across this article about creative people. What do you think? Do you think you are creative? Are these your traits too?

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