Lovelihood

I cranked on my standard playlist of hipster tunes and the Lego rattling in the next room, and pushed aside quilt detritus to get some more Kindergarten preparation out of the way. New snack baggies had been on the list for a while, the last set shredded and, quite frankly, kind of disgusting from a couple years of use. Ditched the velcro (which proved a weak point in the construction of those other bags), went with a sweet Echino linen lined with muslin, and just went at the raw edges with a down and dirty zig zag stitch, a construction much like sandwich baggies before the advent of ziploc. No messing with right sides and wrong sides and turning and topstitching and french seaming. Cut, fold, sew. Eight baggies, two feet of fabric, a freshly-wound bobbin, one hour. Tested the result with a handful of pretzels. Works just fine.

A little something I'm toying with for the Boy's birthday class party favors, while I'm in various beginning stages on other party favor projects. I say it every few days, and I'll continue to until it's over... May is a damned long month.

Remember those sashiko swatches I wanted to make pillows of? Well, here's a backside shot of them, lined with the stabilizer sheets on which I'd printed out the embroidery guides. My original intention had been to just leave the sheets in there, but with the linen so light and airy, I decided I didn't want that stiffness under there. So now I'm left with the tedium of tearing, snipping, seam-ripping the paper away from the thread, a process that's taking a rather long time, if only because I can only stand to work at it a few minutes at a time.

Mostly, I love the graphic nature of this kind of embroidery. The geometry and abstraction it lends itself to appeal to me much more than your traditional embroidery which just always seems so literal, and often so floral. www.lovelihood.com

Grasy blades to fill the inside of The Girlie's basket. Because what's an Easter basket without grass? Read more at: www.lovelihood.com/blog/handbasket-or-two

I used the Cityscape stamp set (love it) to make a little play set for use with the Easter basket. Read more at: www.lovelihood.com/blog/handbasket-or-two

I used the Cityscape stamp set (love it) to make a little play set for use with the Easter basket. Read more at: www.lovelihood.com/blog/handbasket-or-two