R is for... Red Red Robin

I am playing along with Katy from

nobigdill.com as she

Sews through the 26 letters of the alphabet

 

Today is all about "R".

 

 

 I love this crazy fabric!

 

I mean,

are these guys just cardinals,

or cardinals wearing sunglasses?

Who am I to judge?

 

I think they may also be smirking,

which makes me respect them more.

 

It's like they're in on the joke.

If there is one.

These punks are in on it.

 

It's Cardinal Stagger Organic Cotton Fabric

by Charley Harper for Birch Fabrics.

 

And the avian are Red so they

totally count for R.

 

I like it enough that,

I bought more than one shirt worth. 

 

 

I made a size 3 and a size 5.

 

My 7 year old

(who hates everything I make)

tried on the 5 and it was a hit.

 

I used Jess's Nessie Top pattern

and this time I read it with my eyes open.

 

 

 

Soooo... Yeah!

 



 

The four year old,

has on the 2 year old's

who's napping and therefore not yelling...

 

WHERE'S MY SHIRT?!

 

It's possible I may "have" to churn out #3

 

 

and then take a slightly barfy, slightly matchy

matchy photo of all 3.

 

 

A girl's gotta do it once in a while.

 

This last snap is of Pu doing some weird stretch

But I felt it aptly captured the

distorted super model contortions

that I demand from all my local talent. 

 

 



"Q" is for...

I am playing along with Katy from

nobigdill.com as she

Sews through the 26 letters of the alphabet

 

This week's stitches are inspired by the letter "Q".

 

 

 

You know what our house/ my life isn't??

 

(Plug your ears, I'm going to use all caps)

 

Our house is not...

QUIET!!!

 

And for that I am mostly grateful.

 

Most of the time our house sounds like

this:

 

 

At least three little people are trying

to the loudest of their abilities,

to share their every thought and

feeling.

Their, every epiphany.

 

 

When there is snow,

we do not hear the breath of angels

or the silence of the colour white.

 

Instead we hear a reasonable facsimile of

"a pox on mittens!!!'

(But how my hands buuuuurn!) 

"The snowflakes are in my eyes",

"my snowpants = puffy wedgie"

 

 

Instead of the quietus of birds reflected in water:

 

 

We hear

"Biiiiiiiiird!!!!

I'm going to feed you biiiiiiiiird!!!"

 

(Yu about to kick bird ass unless it melds to her will)

 

 

This one even hums when she eats!!

 

Let's be clear,

I wouldn't trade it for anything.

(But Spinal Tap will have to go higher than 11)

 

And then there is Quince:

 

 

Awww, give a girl a break.

These cooould be quince blossoms?!?

 

This is my first try at Jess's Nessie top Pattern

 

I would have to create a new blog

to debrief all the things I did wrong

to this poor innocent collar.

 

 

Let's just leave it with:

Great pattern,

mad seamstress.

 

Broke a needle,

read directions wrong,

decided to press on at midnight.

Broke machine.

Said some swears.

Put collar on wrong.

 

 

 And though from far away it looks perfect

and adorable...

 

Rest assured I injured my middle child

both physically and spiritually stuffing her

giant melon head into the too tight neckband

(must read instructions...cut on bias!!)

 

 

Thus, the shortest one inherits this "dress"

and I put money in a jar for Nu's

"Future Therapy".

 

I should no longer

wonder why my children don't like

my homemade crap  :)

I may have left her with a permanent cone head.

 

 

 

 

 At least we'll always have hats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eat some Cake!!

Hello You!!

 

 

Apologies for having ditched you lately.

It's not you, it's me.

 

Well actually,

it's one of the Shorties.

 

 

Everyone is fine,

no need to worry.

However, the past little while had been busy

with assessments for a mystery thing.

 

I was marching around with furrowed brow.

 

 

To Dr's and speech pathologists,

then Occupational therapists

and Physiotherapists.

 

That's a lot of stuff for a little one.

 

 

 

The good news is after all the marching

and sweating and ringing of hands,

that is the full time job of most parents...

 

 

There are some things to do,

but cupcakes will certainly help,

and I'm hopeful that a window for

a creative stretch is not far away.

 

See you soon &

Happy (late) Valentine's Day!!

 

 

"P" is for...petals

I am playing along with Katy from

nobigdill.com as she

Sews through the 26 letters of the alphabet

This week's stitches are inspired by the letter "P".

I took a little sewing class to try and carve out

some sewing time.

2 nights allowed for this:

The Sew Liberated SchoolHouse Tunic

The weather here has been grim

so I ran out into the raindrops

& we got a few snaps

However,

this little monkey was determined

to be in all of them.

When I try and take a picture of her,

she flies the coop...

but this set of snaps I was cropping

out dog toes and spinning dervishes.

Figures :)



"O"... is for Obsessed!

I am playing along with Katy from

nobigdill.com as she

Sews through the 26 letters of the alphabet

 

This week's stitches are inspired by the letter "O".

 

 

 

I guess this is the season for wool.

 

I miss my sewing machine,

however, it's also the season of sick kids.

 

My middle one has what sounded like

 Olden Times Sick to me

Scarlet Fever.

Yeesh!

 

And so I've been knitting hats.

And tending to the Littles.

 

 

Little hats, for the Little Ones.

 

 

Bigger hats for the bigger ones.

 

 

And even the dude in the family finally gets to

profit from my stitches.

 

(Note Giant Stink-face on the littlest Little)

 

Though I use the word 'profit' dubiously.

 

I made lots of hats using Shannon's great pattern

 

 

And, as is my way, I played with it a little

trying to find the perfect

slouch to snug ratio.

 

They look pretty cute on,

(though this chick needs, sleep and lipstick)

 

 

but off, they remind me of Fat Albert's buddy

Dumb Donald.

 

The Sweetie said the same!

 

So I switched my hat/stitch obsession over to crochet.

 

 

This is a lovely new pattern from

Delia

 

And though it's very sweet,

it's a little too small for me.

(I made the adult small,

over correcting for my giant

Dumb Donald large hats)

 

 

It looks so much prettier on Pu.

 

 

Alas, my 6 year old is very particular

 

and it didn't make the cut.

 

I guess I could make another one a size larger

for my medium sized head.

 

 

But these chunky yarn babies just knit up

so quickly.

 

 

Who knew Dumb Donald was my kind of Fashionista.

 

And my TV watching, knit/ crochet obsession

is admittedly in total overdrive.

 

Off to wipe a nose and cast on something.