Useless crowing

2008-09-17T11:39:15+00:00

You cannot say you were not warned. Last night, in the process of executing my day’s 4 pages of novel, I finished my current writing notebook and started a new one. (not Clairefontaine this time — I’m trying to use up the other blank books I have sitting around. If anyone actually cares why Clairefontaine is my paper product of choice, even compared with {new notebook} the wildly popular Moleskine, I would be more than happy to blog about that.)

The reason this transition is almost interesting enough to warrant your attention is that I started this new notebook August 14th. One month and two days to get through 192 pages, and they aren’t exactly mingy tiny pages either. I am massively proud of this productivity, and on top of it, September 16 marked one month without break of the 500 words a day project. I actually kept a resolution for a whole month! About something other than flossing!

Now I guess I’d better go recalibrate and figure out how many pages in a Moleskine is 500 typed….

Time to brag -- my latest sewing project!

2004-06-29T11:43:35+00:00

You’ve puzzled over the deformed scribbles of my pencil, you’ve followed the twisted skeins of my writing. You’ve even feasted from afar on the fruits of my baking labor. But never before has Faerye.net shown you…the products of my needle and thread!

Being, as I am, and as you cannot failed to have noticed, quite mad, I decided that the departure of a kind, generous, patient and invaluable co-worker from the Land of Office for the Land of Mommy required a really extravagant gesture. Therefore, I bought some galloon-edged eyelet and a baby dress pattern (the baby’s gender is known). I also needed some species of adorable floral fabric, perhaps in the calico family, but this was Fraught with Peril. Can you imagine going into the largest clothing fabric store outside New York—heck, or even one of the many quilt shops dotting the precincts—and trying to choose JUST ONE adorable calico? The thought is terrifying. I’d be there for a week, leaving at closing and coming back at opening. I’m a vacillator. I’d end up sobbing in the middle of the store surrounded by 15 sprigged florals, wailing, “Can’t someone tell me which one is cutest?”

So, I did what we all do at some point in our lives—probably, at several points—and put the whole decision in the hands of my Mom. My mom, the gifted quilter, has an extensive, nay, prodigious supply of fabric, and soon enough she sent me an adorable pink floral with which I am well-pleased. It was also she who contributed the mom-knowledge of what size/age I should make the dress for. After all, I don’t want to do all this work only to have it outgrown in a week! After a great deal of labor and learning, here is the result:

But wait! I’m not done gushing or bragging yet, so there are more pictures. (Hey, cut me some slack, I’m going to direct my mom and other sewing-type people to this article! Plus, I may never see it again!)

Here be the dress by itself:

Here be some more general pictures:

Here, last of all, are some detail shots. In case anyone wondered what the heck “galloon eyelet” is, here you go. Eyelet is fine fine cotton with embroidered holes in it. Galloon eyelet is the same, but with an embroidered lacy edge:

Looks cute, less hemming :)

And here is my first ever buttonhole:

And here is my third ever buttonhole. Little smoother, eh?

See, Mom? I still remember the embroidery stitches I learned from you when I was little!

Anyways, I am very proud (in case you missed that somehow) and excited to see what the mom-to-be says at her shower tomorrow. I learned a lot!

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Useless crowing

Time to brag -- my latest sewing project!