Last week I posted about my fight with pillow stuffing and how I’ve gone on a quest to figure out what works best.

Shredded Paper

Shredded Fleece

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All Sorts of stuff – bits of yarn, thread, fleece, paper, and dryer lint.
After making 4 small pillows and stuffing them, I think I’ve finally got it down. Here is [...]

I’ve made a few pillows over the years. Seriously, just a few. And I’ve not liked a single one. It’s not that the designs weren’t cute, they were. It was that they were lumpy. With each one I tried a different way of stuffing them:
Pillow stuffing method 1: Huge chunks because I didn’t know better [...]

Now that Thanksgiving is over, I am happily jumping straight into Christmas mode, and part of that is getting a tree up and decorated. A little Christmas cheer to start the season out right. So what happens if you open up your box of homemade ornaments, or hand-me-down extra special ornaments, and find them broken? [...]

Two week ago I moved into my new studio and everything fits wonderfully, but this back wall was killing me. It was too office and not nearly studio enough. I needed color. I wanted paint. I ran though several ideas that were all overly complicated and overly costly. Time for a Redress project! I posted [...]

Making bundles of herbs to dry is a great way to both use up leftover herbs and use up little scraps of wire and ribbon. Not to mention they are really pretty around the house, smell wonderful, and nicely dried can be wonderfully delicious in any meal.

We had quite the haul in our garden back [...]

I recently made a book from my favorite papers and envelopes using the codex binding method, but the only thing I had for the cover was some thicker paper. So, the first step in fixing up my book, is giving it a bit more stability. 

Open up so the book cover face up and flat against [...]

It’s been awhile since I started a new knitting project, so I wanted it to be really great. Something I would want to wear all the time. And something that would be brainless to knit so I can take it everywhere for me. At first I was going to do another in the round sweater [...]