Finding a dog bed for Cholo was difficult. They were always too big or too small.. and stuff like this drove me crazy So I decided to make a dog bed perfectly sized for him. We had an extra memory foam bed topper left over from an uncomfortable Airbnb that we could use as a […]
Cholo is the Princess and the Pea of beds… Beds for his size are too big for him, and he looks ridiculous sitting in Tequila’s. So I made him a custom bed to his size. I watched a ton of Sailrite videos to learn how to sew, but I couldn’t find anything on the internet
We were supposed to go to a Mardi Gras party and participate with a little mini float parade. It all fell apart at the last minute, but we had already put the work into the costumes. Lina finished her mermaid outfit: I added some gold trim to a Burning Man coat and then made a
I had another quilt almost ready to go for the silent auction, but when I read about the motu nui challenge I realized I didn’t document the making of it, but I did have most of the pictures of this quilt. I started by using a paper pieced pattern I found for Hawaiian shirts. Almost
I taught a knitting class two nights in a row to the women in Cchulemu. I brought 88 skeins of yarn, 32 sets of knitting needles, and 15 crochet hooks to Nepal and distributed them between the two villages that we ended up teaching in. With all that, I wish we had more yarn
My quilting retreat was a couple of weeks ago and I was able to get ahead on some of my sewing. Finished the Paper Shredder lap quilt. It’s going up on my dining room wall today. Finally started and finished my sewing machine cover. It’s going on my sewing machine after next week. The Black,
Here are the last three quilts I’ve finished. Two Fancy Fox quilts, pattern by Elizabeth Hartman and one vintage quilt block, that I pieced and quilted. All three are going out this year to friends and family. Had a lot of fun with the foxes. Most of the fabric came out of Lynne’s stash. The
Here are some of the things I’ve been working on for Christmas presents. I’m not going to say who gets what. So if you see something here, please don’t tell anyone you saw it!
Lina has spent a lot of time transforming our backyard into a Tiki oasis. Here’s some pictures about halfway done. We’re actually probably more than half way done now. There are just a few finishing touches that need to be done here and there.
In July, my neighbor Rene said he would help me build a waterfall if I wanted and who doesn’t want a waterfall in their backyard?! It took us about three days of digging, arranging and rearranging the rocks to get it right. The next week I planted hostas and ferns around the rocks of the