July 2008
The Archives
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07.24.08That was awesome!We had a real treat today---Rachel (aka Average Jane Crafter) and her wonderful hubby were here in Portland and Diane facilitated a fun get together this evening at Thatch, the super-cool tiki bar on northeast Broadway. Not only was the company fabulous, it's pretty awesome to feast on pupu platters and drinks with umbrella garnishes. We feel so lucky to be a part of such a fabulous creative community and even more fortunate that those connections can translate into "real life." Thanks, Diane, for bringing everyone together---this was definitely a major highlight in our year! Although we do think that Rachel needs ...
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07.21.08Crafting Across Cultures(Or why we love Uwajimaya.) Maybe it's because we both lived in the international dorm in college, went to grad school oversees, did a fair amount of international traveling (before the dollar tanked and it was actually affordable to travel) and possibly even because Josh has a degree in International Studies, but we are both really interested in books, magazines and publications about sewing and "making stuff" from around the globe. (We also are both compulsive consumers of books and magazines on all sorts of subjects, so this feeds multiple interests at once...) One of our favorite Portland grocery stores happens to ...
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07.18.08Shameless Self-PromotionPlease excuse the advertising, but we're having a garage sale this weekend! We live the in the Best Neighborhood in Portland---Concordia---(honestly, it's true, Mayor Potter gave us an award and everything) and each summer the whole neighborhood gets together and has a massive neighborhood-wide garage sale. It's crazy... This year there are likely to be around 100 families having sales. We've been de-cluttering, as has Sarah's mom, and have put together a pretty nice assortment of stuff. We thought you'd be especially interested in knowing that we're selling two Brother conventional sewing machines for $25 a pop. We promise the stuff is ...
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07.14.08A Day at the BeachWe're lucky here in Oregon to have wonderful beaches---and every last one of them are public, thanks to the 1967 Oregon Beach Bill (learn more on this site from an episode of The Oregon Experience). We haven't been to the beach since last fall because it's gotten just so expensive to drive the eighty or so miles over the mountains to the coast. But, we make the trek to Cannon Beach today---and oh was it worth it! We couldn't resist taking a few pictures so we'd have an excuse to post beach photos here on Sewer-Sewist... (Josh wearing his Sewer-Sewist ...
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07.13.08BlockedWe got the book Lotta Prints by Lotta Jansdotter (who also wrote the very-popular Simple Sewing book) when it first came out. As you know, Josh has gotten really interested in printmaking, especially screen printing, so this book had perfect timing as an impulse buy. We're not going to bother to review the book, since both Average Jane Crafter (aka Rachel) and Diane (of CraftyPod fame) wrote great reviews already, but we thought we'd share the first results from a project in the book. This was Sarah's first attempt in, oh, seventeen years or so, at printing using a linoleum block. ...
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07.08.08Feelin’ StitchyIn my last post, I mentioned that I'm planning on making another Burda shirt for Josh---this time with a bit of monkey embroidery... I usually farm out my embroidery needs to my mom, who's amazing, but since this is a shirt for Josh, I'm thinking that I should do it myself. To give myself a bit of practice (Mom taught me, but she's kind of, er, fanatical about stitch evenness and embroidery perfection, so I've never embraced the craft with a lot of zeal as a result), I'm doing some embroidery on an Amy Butler Lotus Dress (this is my ...
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