For Week #4 of the Stitch-a-Long our Chore Girl Goes Grocery Shopping. A closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
A lot of the ready made granola that you find in the cereal isle at grocery stores are either very high in sugar or are mixed with raisins which have a very high glycemic load (GL). Last summer, I went in search of a recipe to make a low GL granola and after experimenting and combining various recipes, I’ve come…
For Week #3 of the Stitch-a-Long we have the Chore Girl Sewing. Perhaps she’s stitching along with us! A closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
I’ve been indulging in a little therapy for the soul lately. First of all some sewing therapy. Joann’s sent me a couple of e-mails last week… one contained a 50% off coupon and the other contained a coupon for 15% off your entire purchase. So I went shopping for fabric and bought 5.5 yards of a beautiful floral Hawaiian style…
In between working on getting my newest Angel pattern ready for testing, I’ve been making a few of my Prosperity Angels to give as gifts. This newest variation came about when I saw that I didn’t have enough of the gold metallic crochet cotton left to make a complete angel. So I crocheted the head, body/dress and arms of the…
This week’s pattern in the Stitch-A-Long is the Chore Girl Ironing. Here’s a closer view: The pattern is available as a pdf to download here. Have fun stitching! And if you are stitching along and have blogged about it, let me know in the comments so I can come visit.
When we bought the Art Deco Sewing Machine Cabinet with Stool that Dave then refinished for me, there were some treasures in the drawers and underneath the cushion of the stool. One of those treasures was several pages of vintage Workbasket embroidery patterns. After doing some research, I’ve satisfied myself that these patterns are in the public domain and I…
When we first decided to spend the winter in Florida, part of the plan was to pick up my portable Singer sewing machine from storage. Well, Dave searched and searched, climbing over and behind boxes and furniture stacked ¾ of the way to the top of the storage unit but he wasn’t able to find it. He would have had…
The other day, I was wrapping some packages to get them ready to mail and remembered this little trick I saw for using a plastic bread tab on the end of a roll of packing tape so that you don’t have to search for it each time you want to cut a new piece of tape. Here’s a close up:
“You want to know what happiness is? It’s waking up in the middle of the night for no reason, shifting under the blankets and feeling the heat of the person next to you. You turn around and see them in their most peaceful, innocent and vulnerable state. They breathe as though the weight of the world lays on anyone’s shoulder…