Hi! I'm Patty, a 30-something and a recent transplant from Minneapolis to Texas. Read along as I get used to life in the suburbs, nest in a new home and sew my way through Dallas.
Morning ducks! Last week I brazenly proclaimed the start of a new Snug Bug blog era on my Facebook – more daily posts, even if there’s not much to post about. Alas, I spent most of yesterday working on my Lotus Blossom skirt (remember the funky welt pockets?) and then in the evening taught...
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Good morning giraffes! Don’t feel bad about the whole foot and a half long black tongue thing. We think it’s totally cool that you can clean your own ears with that sun-resistant tongue. Also, we’re working hard to repeal that ridiculous anti-telephone pole hitching law in Atlanta. They are so 18th century in Atlanta...
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Greetings three toed sloths and aspiring nocturnal creatures. As those of you on Facebook may have seen, I’ve decided to try for more nonsensical posts rather than the sporadic production I’ve been engaging in lately. So here’s to nonsense! I worked all day today and wore my wheatgrass blouse along with an el-cheapo black...
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Welcome back flood repellant manatees. It’s about two degrees above zero here in the frozen land of Minneapolis. Spring is not likely to ever show up. And yet, I’ve been soldiering on with my spring palette challenge items. I took another stab at Simplicity 2601, my so-far favorite shirt pattern. I even used the...
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Just a quick update – here’s my month of Me Made March so far! – just a snapshot. I’ve been busy working on new projects – check out the coat from the 21st! Brand new, wool and silk. So lovely… not sure on the buttons yet…
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Greetings sea turtles! I finally got around to taking pictures of my recently-made jeans and I’m starting my seasonal binge of utilitarian sewing and have a stack of cheap jersey and a New Look t-shirt pattern ready to go. Let’s just jump to the first picture, shall we? Here are the jeans and my...
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Morning duck billed platypodes! Some interesting facts about platypadillos – there is no universally accepted plural form, and saying platypi is a hatchet job of inappropriate Latin endings on Greek words. Also, Platypodes (the technically correct plural Greek form, according to Wikipedia) are one of the few venomous mammals. And here I thought that...
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Morning penguins and other devoted feather footed friends. Sorry for the radio silence. I have been completely absorbed in making my first pair of jeans. Also, serger lust has me in it’s meaty grip and I’m excitedly waiting for a possible tax-refund-financed purchase of a low-end Janome serger to come live with me. Perhaps...
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Evening fillies! Spurred on by the Me-Made-March need for regular, every day clothes as well as Tanit-Isis’ recent denim do’s and don’ts post I decided to jump in to jeans-making. Of course, with my love of making everything difficult, I ended up with a pair of trousers that bears a suspicious resemblance to riding...
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Morning beanstalks and affiliated vegetables! I’m happy to report that after a year-long standoff I have finally conquered Burda 7780 and provided a coat for Mr. Bug so that he no longer is forced to scamper off to work with his poor suit coat sticking out from under his much-shorter Carhart. He not only...
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Evening firedragons! As your eagle eyes have undoubtedly noticed, I’ve set up a little flickr badge in the sidebar to show off my Me-Made-March activity, so I’m not sure how many me-made posts I’ll do. There’s been a lot of chatter on blogs this week about the Me-mades and Self-stitched months. I find it...
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Good evening saber tooth tigresses! I have a real, live finished project to show off today! This is a double-duty project; not only does it fit in with my Spring Palette Challenge, it’s also a sample for the shop and a future class project! While I don’t condone killing, I may as well kill...
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Evening geckos and star-nosed moles. I clearly need to go to the zoo. I’m running out of animal names. I’m still working away on my two coat projects (raincoat and Mr. Bug coat) and am nearing completion on both, so hopefully by this time tomorrow you’ll all see a lovely new raincoat. In the...
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Morning assorted sewey sewertons. Today, lacking anything better to blog about, I’m all about process. No finished projects, just documentation of a sewing experiment. I’ve been a busy bee, working on Mr. Bug’s coat as well as a raincoat, but these projects all take time rabbits, and that leaves me with nothing to blog...
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