I brush the cats almost every day in a futile attempt to cut down on the hair. At least these chairs are very easy to brush clean, because when she’s not leaving Olivia-fluff, I’m leaving minky-fluff.
Aug
3
Author: Karen at Silver Seams
Aug
2
Wren update
Mostly this is a test to make sure I have the Facebook/Instagram connection correctly connected. But it’s also a fuzzy update on the Carolina Wren babies, since I emptied and refilled the bird bath today and took some blind pictures (this is the best). Their eyes are open, so I’m extra careful about not showing […]
Jul
31
Snap tray variant style
The older snap tray design has pinched corners, which makes it super-easy to snap – just, well, pinch the corners. But for a different look, here’s one I’ve been playing around with. The snaps show on the inside, so if you’re using fancy ones (or rivets) or just very proud of your color-coordination, this is […]
Jul
29
Wren update
The adult wrens weren’t around when I went to refill the bird bath yesterday, but they’d been hauling bugs all morning so I knew there were hatchlings. I risked sneaking up, sticking the phone to the opening and clicking blindly and sure enough, there they were. I’m trying not to let them get too acclimated […]
Jul
27
Color-sorting with Ink/Stitch
When you have a single-color embroidery machine, sometimes you want to sew a bunch of identical items to make the most of your thread changes. But if you just duplicate an item, sometimes your machine wants to stitch each one out in series, defeating the purpose. Pricey embroidery software like Embrilliance will group the colors […]
Jul
24
Adventures in product photography
I was supposed to have gotten the first batch of the coordinating dice/tray sets on Etsy by now but, uh, turns out taking pictures of sparkly dice is about as hard as taking pictures of sparkly dragon eyes and if you follow me on Mastodon you know I struggle with that too. Another batch arrived, […]
Jul
22
Take your vitamins
It has been just short of two months since I started using TaskWarrior, and I gotta admit… it’s going well? I’m not sure if it’s TaskWarrior or the vitamin D (you can skip to that if you’re not interested in to-do list stuff). Stephanie over the river at Exit 343 Designs (maker of the sticker […]
Jul
20
Christmas in July?
If you subscribe to my shop announcements you’ll have gotten a sneak peek at those dice. Those particular ones will land in the shop this week, but they’re really just samples for the countdown calendars that I’ll be doing again this November(ish). This time I’m shooting for a little more lead time, obviously, and something […]
Jul
17
Roundup: Practical sewing projects
I gotta admit: I don’t do a lot of practical sewing. When I do, most of it is gifts and I don’t take many pictures of those. But I love to subscribe to blogs about them, and squirrel away ideas for future gifts, so here’s some of them. SewingTimes has videos, which make me feel […]
Jul
15
Pug silhouette (machine embroidery)
“Silhouette” isn’t quite right, since that’d just be a basic fill – this design is a minimalist mix of fill and satin-stitch contour. Whatever that’s called? That’s what this is. Its a bit larger than, say, the Teensy Dragon – a smidge over an inch tall, and a little less than an inch and a […]