by Aimee | Dec 24, 2016 | Cooking not Stitching, Featured, Getting Crafty, Handmade Holiday, Personal Projects
Here’s what I’ve managed to finish up so far. This is just a picture dump so that I can get back to work on the three small items that remain. I had 50 gifts to make and 40 days–though in totalling up distinct items (pairs of shoes, individual...
by Aimee | Dec 23, 2016 | Handmade Holiday, Patterns and Notions, Personal Projects
With two days left to fulfill my Handmade Holidays promise, I’m totally geeking out about this pattern. In the interest of full disclosure, Alice the Fabric Ninja is a friend and our kids are besties. She provided her pattern to me gratis in exchange for my...
by Aimee | Nov 22, 2016 | Cooking not Stitching, Featured, Getting Crafty, Handmade Holiday, Personal Projects, Raising Geeks
This will be my third year of a #handmadeholiday promise. And this year, I may actually succeed! We give storebought gifts at other times of the year, especially birthdays. A Handmade Holiday is a way for us to combat the commercialism of the Christmas season and...
by Aimee | Feb 16, 2014 | Late-period Spanish, Little Garb, Personal Projects
I’ve been remiss in updating my blog, so I’m going back and catching some of my favorite projects during the Summer of Pregnancy Brain. Simple Day in 2013 was also our Baronial Investiture, so heraldic colors (blue, gold) were kind of important. I had...
by Aimee | Jun 5, 2013 | Medieval and Renaissance, Personal Projects
I’ve been promising to do this for over a year. The Sternfeld Rapier and Heavy champions have regalia, as do the Arts & Sciences champion, cooking champion, etc. The project, in a nutshell, is a reasonably-adjustable-for-baby-bump sideless surcoat with the...
by Aimee | Feb 1, 2013 | Commissions, Little Garb, Personal Projects
The Doodle persists in clinging (she’s growing a new molar), and I’ve had a week of what felt like non-stop appointments. Thankfully, the appointments confirmed, among other things, that my WAPF/Real Food diet has had a very positive impact on my...
