Archive for March, 2007

Evolution is still a pretty radical idea – just ask this little Evolving Punk. He recently made the big step onto dry land from the primordial ooze of a dirty toilet.

If you haven’t cleaned your bathroom lately, now might be a good time.

Here is his little evolving backside:

TWO Easter surprises in the mail today!

First, from my darling big sis, an sweet little package full of traditional Easter goodies: an egg-dying kit, cocoa Peeps bunnies and the perennial Easter frog.

Yes, according to my sister, there was an abundance of frogs inhabiting the Easter aisle at her local supermarket…. Any explanation for this? Anyway, thanks, Sis!

And secondly, it seems that my overuse of the caps lock has finally paid off. TWO new Labbits arrived in the mail, thanks to my pushover of a husband – the white Labbit Pack B and his adorable Easter Labbit cousin!

Just look at his bubble gum – so sweet! And the other one thinks he’s an Easter egg. They each came with three more things to chew on.

Speaking of Easter, I was thinking that the next free pattern might be grass (you know – Easter grass), based on the new grass buddies on the homepage. We’ll see….

I have every intension of making a skirt from a sewing pattern with my brand-new sewing machine. Someday.

A month or so ago, my lovely mother-in-law took me to Mood, the fabric destination featured in Project Runway’s harried shopping scenes. (It’s truly an experience to be had. You could definitely made an entire day trip out of it, if only it had public bathrooms.)

We picked up this sweet little print there, which I instantly fell for:

It’s got a nice Victorian goth look, but on closer examination, the people and animals in the print all have these curiously cartoonish faces. So I love it.

But the pattern-following is a bit more challenging than I expected. Having forgotten whether or not I had any good scissors for cutting fabric, we ended up struggling with my old dull paper scissors. Strange, cryptic pattern paper was flying everywhere. Finally, we got the sewing machine out, which should be “very simple to use,” according to my in-law. Then, after getting the setup all ready, she tells me to read the manual before attempting any “real sewing,” and splits town for New Hampshire.

So now I’m left with these two pieces of Victorian goth fabric that are neatly pinned together, and no idea what to do with them. Are they even part of the skirt, or something we cut something else out from?

Luckily, I recently got the latest Make Workshop (no relation to Make magazine) calendar. I know what I’m doing on March 27th, April 5th, or April 28th: Intro to Sewing Machine.

Until then, I think I’ll stick to knitting patterns.