Fraulein

So, this is my new favorite accessory. I call it the Fraulein since it seems very Germanic to me.
I'm thinking of selling some on my etsy shop, but I don't know if they would sell.

Let me know if you're a fan!




Currently Knitting: coif, still
Currently Hearing: "And then he kissed me" -- The Booklovers
Currently Loving: Corey Genovese

Uke til you puke.

Well, Austin broke off our engagement, so I'm a single dame once more. I don't really feel like going into too many details, but this is for the best, I'm sure.

Oh well.
Who needs a boy when you have a ukulele?
I named her Gloria, or Glo for short.

Also, I started a revelry account. Add me, fellow fiber artists!


Currently Hearing: Mirah
Currently Knitting: Coif earwarmer
Currently Loving: Frozen lakes/mango salsa

Flannal Reconstruction

Today I stopped by the Good Will in Welsboro, PA on my way back from my checkup from my kidney stone (did I mention I had a kidney stone 2 weeks ago?)
I found a great flannel shirt for 25 cents which reminded me of the shirt shown below which I saw in Pacific Sunwear this past weekend and loved, but didn't have the $30 to cough up on something I could easily make.

So I decided to buy it and reconstruct it.

Flannel Shirt Reconstruction:

What you'll need:

• An oversized shirt to reconstruct.
• You favorite button-up to use as a guide.
• fabric scissors
• needle
• thread
• push pins

Step 1: Get that over-sized flannel shirt!

Step 2: Turn it inside out and cut off the sleeves along the seamline.

Step 3: Lay the over-sized shirt flat and place your favorite button up on top of it in the middle. (Using the collar and line of buttons helps to find the middle) Pin the shirts together and begin cutting around the favorite button up until you get the right silhouette for your shirt.

Step 4: Sew it up! Pretty sides to pretty sides!

Step 5: Take out your favorite shirt to use as a templet to resize the sleeves.

Step 6: Pin the sleeves to the flannel shirt and sew them together.

Done!

Rejoyce!

My favorite ukulele playing Drew Barrymore-lover, Jacob Borshard, just released a new album, A Glow in the Dark.

Yes please!

You can hear the whole album right here. Please do yourself a favor and go listen right now!
His songs are honest, charming, and heartbreaking, but they're so easy to relate to that they will warm the late January icicles off of your bones even when you're at your lowest of lows.

Woodstock

I got engaged on Christmas night.
It was a great surprise and both Austin and I are very happy and looking forward to the future.



In other news:

The town I live in is about a half hour away from Bethel, NY, which is the town that Yasgur Farms is located in (The original sight of the Woodstock Festival). Anyway, they just opened a Woodstock museum there, and I'm thinking of applying for a job after I graduate.
Pretty cool, right?

pretty paper, pretty ribbons

This holiday season has left me feeling more festive than I have since I was a child.
Austin and I took his first trip to New York with my parents where he ate his first canoli and graced the sidewalks of the villiage where we had dinner. It's a big difference from Seattle, that's for sure.
In other news, I've been baking various different holiday treats every single day, and probably won't stop until after New Years.

I have lots more to write (and I will soon) but right now I'm just taking a break from shoveling over 8 inches of snow. Yikes!

Currently Knitting: the surprise...STILL!
Currently Loving: "Xmas (Baby, Please Come Home) -- Darlene Love
Currently Hearing: "Pretty Paper" -- Roy Orbison

You can never have too many books.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!


And now onto what truly matters, crafts.

My Top 3 Craft Book Wishlist:

1.) Sew U: Home Stretch by Wendy Mullin and Eviana Hartman
I loved the first Sew U, and when I found out the Built by Wendy crew made a new one (about sewing knit fabric!) I just couldn't hold myself back from gushing.

2.) Cool Green Stuff by Dave Evans
I cannot wait to get my paws on this book! How-to's on making anything from a record bookend to a cassette belt buckle. How could you go wrong?!

3.) Louisa May Alcott: Quilts of Her Life, Her Work, Her Heart by Terry Clothier Thompson
This book is high on my must-have list. Like many girls, I grew up and fell in love with Louisa May Alcott's books, and after my professor, Dr. Sornberger (a fellow quilter and Alcott lover), told me about this in class, I knew I had to add this to my collection. The quilts depict Alcott's experiences nursing during the civil war to the suffragette movement.