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This post was written by Jane of Dear Author When I first saw the boxy pouch tutorial, I thought it would be a delight to make but I wanted it to be lined and have the handle like the one I saw at Burda Style. Further, I needed my boxy pouch to be larger. I [...]

This post was written by Jane of Dear Author. This year, I made teacher’s gifts using some cute craft tutorials. First up is the journal cover. I used this tutorial from Bloom. While the tutorial doesn’t say this explicitly, there is no lining inside the pocket panels. You can add a lining, but it makes [...]

This post was written by Jane of Dear Author: Tot got a new 18″ doll from American Girl but we had only one doll bed. So Ned made another doll bed and I set about making a mattress for it. This is the new bed with the doll and the old mattress. I found a [...]

*contest is closed, we have a name! Winner will be announced this week!* Have you ever had the urge to do something a little different than what you’re doing now? Or to share your love of something? That’s what Jane Litte of Dear Author, Sarah Wendell from Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and I are doing. [...]

I have two confessions today. One is that I went shopping this morning for pants that I can wear to cocktail parties Monday in NYC. I didn’t find any because I’m TOO SHORT. Kohls is having some great clearance sales and I tried on an embarrassing number of pants but they all were too long [...]

Though I haven’t been doing a lot of sewing or crafting lately, and have a couple of projects that are halfway done needing to be finished, and some promised things to make, I still love to collect fabric. I adore fabric, and find the selection locally kind of depressing now that we’ve gone from three [...]

For the past 5 months, I’ve been searching for the “perfect” pattern for a backsack/backpack. I thought I’d found one back in February, but when I made it, I found the pattern itself was flawed–I thought I’d done something wrong, so I made it again and realized it was just a poorly designed backpack that [...]

For these. It’s a crying shame I don’t have clue one how to knit, so my lust will remain unfulfilled. If I had like…24 extra hours in my day, I’d actually take up knitting just to make these. There are some other really cute patterns in her shop.

I don’t know if I have enough crafters reading this blog to do a fabric swap but I’m dying to do one (because I want someone else to pick out some fabric for me, lol) and I know I don’t know enough local people who do crafts to organize one. Would anyone be interested in [...]