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My Mom wearing my me mades that I don’t reach for very often.
I think she looks great in them 🤗.
Top is the Zero waste Photinia Blouse with the Henrietta skirt. Beautiful merchant and mills cotton/ linen gingham.

Yay hi! 🫶

Two dogs cozy up on one donut dog bed in front of a cast iron wood stove. Off to the side is an empty dog bed.

My little serotonin generators

I have a Bernette 44 funlock. At the time I was trying to choose between the one I got and vibrant babylock.

I rarely have to thread mine- if I change thread I just cut all the threads at the top and tie the new spools on and very carefully hand crank till it’s all the new thread (making sure not to feed the knots through the needles- just cranking right up to needles and then threading through.

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What pattern is this? It looks so cozy🥰

Hell yes that’s amazing! I’ve really never been someone who enjoys “working out” until I discovered lifting heavy things!

Yeah definitely started lifting just to get that endorphin boost to try to be at least slightly less depressy :)

A small vintage featherweight black singer sewing machine with gold detailing. On the sewing machine is the beginning of an orange, yellow and cream colored log cabin quilt square.

Enjoying sewing on my grandma’s machine for the first time in probably 20 years while mine is in the shop. Works great for piecing patchwork.

I really hope you can get back to it one day too 🫂🫂🫂

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I’m still a newbie compared to you but that’s awesome!

Hit a new PR on squat today of 150lbs💪. Feeling pretty proud of myself. Any other sewist aspiring weightlifters here? The crossover we didn’t know we needed?

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I read Kindred a few months ago and then went right into Parable of the Sower right as the fires in LA were happening. Had to put it down for a bit because it was so overwhelmingly timely but love her writing so much so picked it up again recently.

Makes sense!

Ooh I love blackwing pencils for writing / drawing but never thought about using for sewing. Does it wash out ok?

Me tooo 🤗

Thank you! And I hope you do!!

Thank you!

I’m sure it would fade a little overtime. But I did very thorough mordanting ahead of time in hopes of making the fabric as color fast as possible! I’ve washed these once and they held color well after that.

Thank you☺️

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you ☺️

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Nice little Friday night on the picket line 💪

It’s my weekend 🌧️ hoping to chip away at this quilt a little more.
Linen dyed with flowers I grew (cosmos, marigold, coreopsis ).

Oh wow those are so good!! I’ve had black pants with white topstitching bouncing around in my head for a bit.