skirt as top

I spent a couple of hours mending school trousers

I spent a couple of hours mending school trousers

@mommy2maria Jess I’m so sorry! I wish that particular bad fairy would go on vacation.

Cheers, @motherof5 Nicole, and yes, not near my laptop! (Ok, truthfully, it’s always near my laptop)

@mommy2maria Jess I’m so sorry! I wish that particular bad fairy would go on vacation.

Cheers, @motherof5 Nicole, and yes, not near my laptop! (Ok, truthfully, it’s always near my laptop)

Try washing it in a wool wash and then air drying it.
I tend to wash linen in a wool/delicate wash product as it can help with the stiffness/scratchiness

I wish your trip home could be happier Jay.

We were meant to head to our beach cottage but we had farm issues to attend to, so we stayed home. I have not had to cook as I prepped all the meals already so I sewed up Jed’s shirt, made Trixie some hanky linen Puppet show shorts and drafted off the Jedediah trousers.
And ate too much cheese, way too…[Read more]

I wish your trip home could be happier Jay.

We were meant to head to our beach cottage but we had farm issues to attend to, so we stayed home. I have not had to cook as I prepped all the meals already so I sewed up Jed’s shirt, made Trixie some hanky linen Puppet show shorts and drafted off the Jedediah trousers.
And ate too much cheese, way too…[Read more]

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A paper Bubble dress in the bigger size, in Canada

But not near your laptop
Big hugs

But not near your laptop
Big hugs

I have sewn almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I have sewn almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I have sewed almost every piece of this dress incorrectly — to the wrong other piece, backwards, inside out …

I’m at the part where I need to decide whether to add the sash to the Fairy Tale dress. Wish I could teleport you gals here to give me your opinions!

I’m at the part where I need to decide whether to add the sash to the Fairy Tale dress. Wish I could teleport you gals here to give me your opinions!

@cybele I hope that grieving so close to this holiday will be somehow spiritually reviving and comforting. My daughter’s first birthday was the day after my grandfather’s funeral. It was enormously helpful to connect death with new life in that way.

@Todd that’s a wonderful poem! He’s got it right.

My MIL took my kid out for an Easter egg hunt…[Read more]

@sarvi your Persian New Year in the park experience reminded me of one of my favorite Carl Sandburg poems from 1916.

Happiness

I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was…

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I am so very sorry for your loss Jay and I think of you often Masha.