Month: July 2011

What They Made: Ross Wellington

Introducing Ross Wellington. My husband, Mark (aka MVH), and his longtime friend, Brian Ellis, have been working on a graphic novel called “Ross Wellington” since 2004. Ross Wellington is the lone alien survivor of the Roswell crash, and he makes a living as a private detective. The story is sci-fi meets noir, and it never […]

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More knit woes

Knit fabric woes, not knitting woes. I broke up with knitting a while ago. Β  I wasn’t going to blog about this, because it seemed like a nothing event: I was going to hem a knit skirt. Borophyll. It was going to take 10 minutes. Β  I decided how long the skirt should be, cut […]

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Summer custard

Summer rubies. Β  I’ve made this custard twice. The first time I made it with peaches, and the second time I made it with strawberries. I’m sure I’ll make it again with another fruit that’s on sale at the grocery. Β  It’s a dead-easy recipe that takes about 15 minutes to throw together, and there’s […]

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Wishful Thinking: Sorbetto top

Wishful Thinking shares projects that catch my eye β€” and their likelihood of completion. The Sorbetto top. The Sorbetto tank from Colette Patterns was a freebie this spring, and I feel like it showed up on all sorts of sewing blogs. Casey over at Elegant Musings even riffed on the pattern and gave it a […]

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Bought instead of made

The order is placed for these nursing pads. Remember in this post how I talked about how easy it would be to make nursing pads? Β  I still think it would be easy. But that didn’t stop me from ordering more pads this past weekend. Β  I promised MVH I’d start work on sewn stuff […]

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What They Made: Picnic table

Β MVH works on one half of our picnic table. Β  Milwaukee is a picnic table town. Drive around and spy on backyards, and you’ll see it’s true. We have a nice concrete patio β€” nothing fancy β€” and until this weekend, its only occupant was a bird feeder on a shepherd’s hook. Two benches convert […]

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