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analog me
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I make stuff the analog way in Minneapolis. Knitting, sewing, gardening, canning, cooking, boy ranching: often it works, sometimes I fail.
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How Not to Get Anything Done: Part 2 In an Ongoing Series

Step One: Promise your darling that you will mend his favorite bicycle commuting shorts. Step Two: Decide to procrastinate the mending and other jobs by going along on a shoe shopping trip with your ...

23 may 12

just curious

Im just wondering. For those of you who comment. Do you have to enter CAPTCHAs? You know, those annoying randoms words to prove that robots dont hang out making comments on my little blog. Just...

21 may 12

paying attention

I find that as I repeat a project I have to start adding innovations. Otherwise, I dont concentrate my mind moves off to other jobs, my hands go on autopilot, and mistakes are made. Adding pockets an...

18 may 12

Messiness has its rewards

Sometimes when you have fabirc and zippers and patterns laying all over your room, and then you scoop it all up and dump it in a chair, the disorder leads to a previously unimagined combination. Bati...

08 may 12

Portrait of a Dragon Lady

I was in a historical museum this week and met this woman. I cant decide whether she is horrible— or just what I aspire to. Yes, the artist named the portrait of his aunt "Dragon Lady." At ...

07 may 12

May Day Pledge

Of all the online events that I have joined over the years, two have really made a difference in my life. The first was signing up with the now-defunct Wardrobe Refashion group several ye...

01 may 12

Late to the Pyjama Party

Crap, Im late to the party!  Yes, I knew I should have been there yesterday, but I was otherwise occupied. It was a perfect parenting storm: one son was preparing his display board for State Hi...

29 apr 12

New Things

Remember how I posted a bit back about my fear of being buried under scraps of fabric and yarn?  Well, I got some good tips from you commenters and ended up selling several bags of patterns and...

23 apr 12

How to fix Topstitching

No matter how much work I put into the planning, cutting and seaming of sewing, its the top stitching that can make a project look either carefully finished or sloppy. And though I have gotten much b...

17 apr 12

Crochet interlude

Sometimes I forget how much I enjoy making fabric with a hook and a ball of thin yarn. Fabric unplugged.It is pretty rare that I think, " I need a lacey shawl." But once I finish, its ...

11 apr 12

Jalie 2908 Redux

My fashion model pose (Inspired by Ms. Badger)  I naively thought that I would correct all my fitting issues with this second pair of jeans and have a blueprint for all future ones. Alas, anyti...

02 apr 12

A Second Skin

Louise of a view into my world recently wrote a perfect post about love, loss and handmade armor. Go read it.  My thoughts have been taken over with her idea that her handmade clothes can...

31 mar 12

FBA (full butt alteration) for jeans

In my last post I promised to give some hints to prevent gaping at the back waist of the Jalie 2908 jeans. But the same principles could  even be used for skirts or other pants with a back yoke...

25 mar 12 1 person likes this

Dont Hate Alley—make your jeans fit your hips

Well, I seem not to have evoked too much wrath or envy in my new fancy pants. There were a few fit questions. How about we start with hips? If you look closely, my jeans do make what I have learned a...

15 mar 12

My New Jeans (Jalie 2908) and, oh yes, I sinned

Its time for a confession.  For a while now I have been consumed by jeans envy. I read sewing blogs where talented women of the cloth show off their new Jalie jeans and am consumed by covetness...

10 mar 12

Bound

A long, long time ago, I promised my husband I would make him a quilt. I imagined piecing together a stunning design using some interesting fabrics of our joint choosing.  Of course, thats not ...

06 mar 12

Tying up loose ends

As is often the case, the most enlightening aspect of my last post was the comments. The collective wisdom seems to be:  "Your house is not an alternative landfill." (Thanks Amy.) Cle...

27 feb 12

The Dark Side of Thrift

I recently found this in a bag of sewing notions I "rescued." On one hand, I had some respect for the person who revered these tiny lengths of thread enough to carefully wind them on an emp...

21 feb 12

Random Tuesday

Some of my readers have been saying things about "Spring Dresses." For example, it was suggested that I should re-make that dress for Spring. As you might have seen from my latest high fash...

14 feb 12

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13 feb 12

Not so evil after all

There is a theme in my life. I have a strong and almost violent reaction against something, then something happens so I forget exactly what I hated, the pain fades, and then I reintroduce the hated t...

13 feb 12

E-E-Evil Woman

Sewing this pattern up was a real blast to the past. Not only did I have a genuine 1973 sewing pattern, a vintage metal zipper, my 1964 sewing machine and some vintage rayon challis—but this project ...

11 feb 12

Virtual Sewing

What do you find more likely to make you actually get something done: great inspiring ideas--or time on your hands, a need for escapism, panic even? Right around the New Year I cut out a new dress. I...

28 jan 12

Buried Treasure: Part II

The Book Trader is a pretty tame name for a strange store in our area that seems to be the owners bizarre combination of used books, taxidermy, collectibles, erotica, and fortune telling appara...

16 jan 12

New Years resolution: eschew distractions, set my own challenges

I have been cogitating on my New Yearss Resolutions, formulating my thoughts, for some time. One great thing about the internet is that I see and read so many outrageously enviable things that ...

11 jan 12

Year in Review

Thanks to the heads up from Mizz Kalkatroonaa, Im giving Thinglink a test drive for the Analog Me Clothes I Made 2011 Year in Review. (If you hover over the individual images, you can link back to al...

03 jan 12

An Unusual Christmas Day

  To be honest, I didnt think that touring a sapphire mine on Christmas Day sounded very appealing. In fact, as we descended into the pitch dark mine shaft in a growling, diesel fume-belching, ...

01 jan 12

Baby Doll wishes you Happy Holidays

I have been feeling a bit grinchy this Christmas Season, so yesterday I decided the best antidote would be to make a little something special for my youngest niece--who is really a baby and too young...

23 dec 11

How to make a Last Minute Neck Warmer

If you are anything like me, you are looking at your Christmas list and panicking right now. Here is one present you can make very quickly, perhaps even with fabric left over from the last project yo...

17 dec 11

Basic Navy Skirt

Rumpled from wear, I know.  This is a much more conservative version of Ginger than my last! I cut it to the longest length, made it from some nice thrifted navy wool and lined it for comfort l...

13 dec 11

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