Our family has had a tragic loss this week, my husband's father suddenly died due to heart failure. We're obviously with family this week in preparation for his funeral.Grief is difficult to deal with, but our faith helps us get through and realize how blessed we are to have had all the years with him. His two younger sons both had babies on...
UPDATE: The thief was caught! In reality, a much less exciting success, but I received this email from the google team in response to my complaint I filed. Hello, Thank you for your note. In accordance with the DMCA, we have completed processing your infringement complaint and the content in question no longer appears on the following URL(s): http://inthe-garden.blogspot.com/2011/05/lattice-pillow-tutorial.html Please let us know...
I don't do that much clothing refashioning. I don't know why, it's usually easy and cost effective. Probably a big reason is the fact I hate shopping for clothes, and I never look in the clothes at the thrift store. I'm don't mind wearing used clothing, but I don't buy thrifted clothing because I'm just too cheap. It kills me how expensive used...
My best friend got married this past week. We were assigned to be roommates as freshman in college and have been close ever since. For her wedding, I was the maid of honor and so I made Ellie a little dress to match the flower girls even though she just sat in the audience with her dad and no one probably noticed her...
I've been sewing a lot and needed to switch things up with a few warm days we had last week. I've been wanting to build a bench for the foot of our bed for some time, and finally got around to building it. While I was at it, I made a second bench for my friend as a wedding gift. Here's the plan...
I'm excited about this little costume. I actually have other things I should have been sewing but once I got the idea in my head, I put the other projects on hold. The project planning is my favorite part of the whole process. Lately my little guy has been really interested in dressing up, wearing his old Halloween costumes. I made this Max...
Here's the final part of my master bedding, sorry if you're sick of pillows. This is the last pillow post for a while most likely...and I have something super awesome to show you next. At least I think it's a really great project, so cute I emailed a photo to my mom early because I couldn't wait until she saw it on the...
Part 3 of Master Bedding Part 1 The Whole Bed Part 2: Lattice Pillow Tutorial This isn't a tutorial, but just explains how I made the pillow shams. It's kind of a sloppy version, but works and who's to know except you? Basically it's just a big envelope pillow cover. But you sew around the rectangle 2.5" from the finished seam edge to make...
