I recently rescued a whole stack of my husband’s old t-shirts from certain death in the trashcan. There were a few small holes in all of them, but the vast majority of the fabric in each was still usable. After I got over my initial shock and dismay that he would throw away potentially useful …
Category: Clothing
Clothing
I Sewed My First Old Lady Blouse!
Tonight, I was going to post about this week’s CSA share, and how we got a million more pounds of strawberries and rhubarb (and asparagus!), but this is way more important: I finally finished sewing my VERY FIRST SHIRT, and it fits! It’s cut petite, it buttons over my chest-height lady-parts, and is completely passable …
Friday Internet Crushes: There’s No Place Like Home
Urban Indoor Vertical Garden (Photo care of http://www.nytimes.com) I long to have this kind of space for indoor gardening in the city (not to mention the south-facing windows that must be on the other side of the photo)! I’m pretty sure I could make a whole wall garden out of basil and catnip. That would …
Mustache Underpants
After I embroidered a mustache onto a handkerchief for my husband for Valentine’s Day, I (understandably) wanted to put mustaches on everything. This, of course, prompted my friends to come up with the most silly/odd places where one might stitch a mustache. In the end, it was unanimously decided that mustaches on underpants would be …