About Us

My name is Heather and I have been the help meet to my wonderful husband, Len, for 22 years. Our children are Hope (19), Lenny (15), Lily (11), Wren (Born to heaven, 10/02), Mary (Born to heaven, 9/03), Lucy (Born to heaven, Early '04), and Peter (6). Six doggies round out our happy brood.

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I’ve Taken the Pledge

The Pledge

I, Heather, pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of “new” manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge that [...]

Christmas Sewing Projects

Here is a list of the projects I have been working on over the last couple of weeks:

A train mat for Peter (like Joann’s: http://tenkidsandadog.blogspot.com/2007/11/train-playmat.html)

A lap quilt for Peter

A skirt for Lily
Several winter skirts for me – One down, one to go!!!
A denim quilt for [...]

Lily’s Thanksgiving Skirt

I decided to make Lily another one of those cute ruffled skirts. This one is more sedate as it’s for Thanksgiving and has three ruffled sections instead of two. I don’t think it is as striking as the other but I still like it!!!

I think that for the next one I [...]

Lily’s New Skirt

Well I dusted off my sewing machine which has seen little more than mending lately. And boy, did I have fun with this cute skirt that I made for Lily. I read about it on Michele Quigley’s sewing forum called “On Pins & Needles”. The tutorial on Grand Revival made it quite [...]

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Lily’s First Machine Sewing Lesson

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