June 2008
The Archives
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06.28.08Tutorial: Adirondack Chair ReduxAs promised, here's the step-by-step for making over your very own crummy plastic Adirondack chairs into something fun and unique. We had some of the classic "computer monitor beige" chairs that were leftover from our past lives in Santa Fe where you just get used to everything being brown. Somehow, all brown stuff just doesn't fly now that we're back in Portland, so red and blue polka dot chairs seem much more appropriate. We're really enjoying our new and improved chairs. Hope you have fun with this! 1. Locate some old plastic Adirondack chairs, and clean them well (you don't what ...
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06.24.08Pintucks > PleatsThis is about the only math I remember, the ">" sign, meaning "greater than." (Yes, the world breathes a sigh of relief that I was a liberal arts major and not a rocket scientist.) I cleaned up the horrific mess that was on our, er, dining table (which sees more thread, needles and fabric than plates, cutlery and food)... (I'm thinking the dire situation with our workspace may have been adding to my creative funk caused by my impending unemployment. Just maybe... I'm also thinking it would be a brilliant competition to see who could name the most items in this picture. ...
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06.23.08Extreme Makeover: Plastic Adirondack Chair EditionNow that it's (finally) sunny here in Portland, we've been furiously spiffing up our backyard so that we can enjoy hanging out outside. Our old crappy "computer monitor beige" plastic Adirondack chairs (that were our living room chairs when we spent a year living in a converted Santa Fe blacksmith shop---but that's a story for another time) have been resurrected. These look so awesome with super funky blue and red periwinkle polka dots that we're thinking this revamp may deserve a tutorial. (It's pretty simple, really...) What do you think? ~S & J
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06.22.08Talk to Us!It looks like we're having an intermittent problem with the commenting function here at Sewer-Sewist. So, if you try to leave a comment and you're told to enter a security code and there's not one to enter or there's some other problem with trying to talk to us, would you be so kind as to drop us an email and let us know so we can continue to work on the problem? We can always be reached at sewersewist [at] gmail [dot] com. Thank you so much! ~S & J
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06.20.08Not AWOLRosanne was the first of you loyal readers to notice that I haven't been posting much lately and ask what I've been up to sewing- and crafting-wise lately. Josh has certainly been making, and posting, a lot more stuff lately. But I promise, I haven't gone permanently AWOL. In fact, I started what I think will eventually be a really fabulous dress, the HotPatterns Metropolitan Coat Dress (the shorter, short-sleeved version). It's a great dress, huh? I'm making it in another fabulous fabric from Bolt---this one's a smoky blue cotton with a bit of stretch (hooray for stretch!). I think it's European, ...
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06.18.08AnniversaryNo, not our "Blogiversary" (that's next month), but our real-life, actual anniversary was yesterday, June 17. It was our third, although we've actually been a couple since 1996. Being the crafty type Josh made us customized, hand screen printed matching T-shirts (sort of matching, actually, one in magenta, one in baby blue) as a surprise. We're not the sort of couple that normally wears matching T-shirts, but these are pretty awesome. Check out the screens ready to go. And they're in German, an homage to wacky eighties band and concerts shirts. Josh's creation is a tribute to the Moon Family Band---catchphrase: "A ...
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