Pink Chalk Studio » 2007

It’s Officially Spring

Posted in In the Garden on Apr 30th, 2007 23 Comments »

Fresh cuttings of lilac from the garden. A new blog theme. Finally!

Cutting Table

Posted in Quilting, Sewing on Apr 27th, 2007 35 Comments »

Another fabulous idea I picked up at the retreat.

My local Ace Hardware even cut the 12″ lengths of PVC for me. This raised my banquet table (the first ‘office’ desk Greg and I bought over 15 years ago!) from 28 to 36 inches. What a huge difference on my back. I used 1 […]

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Cute Skirts

Posted in Sewing on Apr 25th, 2007 22 Comments »

Cute, cute, cute. That’s all I can think when I see these skirts. Leil wore the Asian print on Monday, Pink on Tuesday and Orange today. She likes them. I used the 3 Peas Tiered Skirt tutorial as a guide. I was short on having enough of some of […]

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Sewing in Public

Posted in Sewing on Apr 23rd, 2007 14 Comments »

Before I left on the ASG retreat Greg asked “Doesn’t it seem sort of weird to sew in public?” I’m still laughing.
I’m going to milk my output from the retreat all week. Here’s the first creation:

This is from Ottobre Design Spring 1/2005 #38. I modified the pattern to be short sleeved. The […]

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Inspiration

Posted in Musings on Apr 17th, 2007 22 Comments »

“Hi Mrs. Mack. Can Kathy come out and play?”
“Oh no, not today. She MUST finish her pattern first.”

I’ve been working for the last several weeks on creating my first sewing pattern. After a week of Classroom in a Book, endless searches on the Adobe forums, and generally ignoring absolutely everything else going […]

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American Sewing Guild

Posted in Sewing on Apr 13th, 2007 10 Comments »

I joined the American Sewing Guild (ASG) last year. I’ve been a sewer all my life and had never heard of this organization. I wanted to share some of what I get out of it and encourage you to check out your local chapter. This texture quilt is an example of a […]

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Big Footed Bunnies

Posted in Sewing on Apr 9th, 2007 17 Comments »

Blossom and Purlo arrived just in time to celebrate Easter.

Hillary Lang’s Big Footed Bunny pattern. They’re just too cute for words. As I was tucking in Leil and Blossom last night she said ‘Mom, Blossom has REALLY BIG feet.’ Gave me a good laugh.

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Mask

Posted in Quilting, Out of the Box on Apr 4th, 2007 37 Comments »

That was the theme for this month’s Out of the Box (my creativity group) challenge.

This was my first attempt at a face. Creating a face is absolutely terrifying for someone who doesn’t draw. I figured it was time I get over myself on that one and give it a whirl.
I used the hand […]

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Getting Organized

Posted in Craftiness, Sewing on Apr 2nd, 2007 16 Comments »

We kicked off Spring Break with yard work that made our bodies ache, house cleaning (the girls LIKE to vacuum, yippee) and ‘let’s get really organized’ type of organizing. I’m actually looking forward to not going anywhere this week and just enjoying a clean house with no schedules to tend to.
I wanted to share […]

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