I really love this clutch for 2 simple reasons – one it is so quick to make, just under a half hour and you have a little clutch; two it is perfect for holding pencils, pens, and crochet hooks! Perfect!

I actually started selling these clutches in the Green Prairie Fiber shop, they seemed like a nice match. I call them Stitch Clutches now. It’s such a nice way to use those great solo vintage buttons and funky fabrics. Like the pineapple fabric in this one:

I don’t know if any of you remember from awhile ago when I posted about my Knitting Basket and how it’s broken down and I want to fix it. Well, I’ve finally got around to it and thank you so much for all your suggestions!

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So I went to my fabric stash, which is all too massive and out of control in my bedroom and I found amazing things. I had all this great fabric in there that I had been “saving” for when I get “good” at sewing. Well, I am good at sewing now so what am I waiting for? One huge problem is that my fabric just isn’t organized in a way that’s easily accessible. I have my larger pieces on bolts, but anything under the 3 yard mark (skirts and shirt fabric cuts for instance) have been put into a bin with everything else.

At the beginning of the year I said that I wanted to start making my own clothing and I made a skirt from Stitch magazine that turned out pretty well (after I altered it a bit to make it more my size). I think that’s a good start. But by the end of January along with everything else I was hoping to turn around in my life, it had been put to the back burner.
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I love love love reading. And I love love love books. So that being the case I often am reading, looking through, or skimming a half a dozen or so. I go through a lot of book marks. Over time they just get misplaced, or if they are paper destroyed with the use of them. Bent, torn, tea spilt on. Well, after doing all that looking around on Tuesday at bookmarks I decided that cloth bookmarks are the way to go. And then I decided that I really want to do some embroidery too. So there we go, fabric bookmark embroidered with a little bird that just happens to love her bookworms.
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Well, in all honesty it was last week that I picked these books up. I’ve decided to break it up into two groups this week as I found quite a few winner and they are in two distinct categories. We will start out today with dyeing and then I’ll show you the embroidery books on Thursday.
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The November Craft Leftovers Monthly is in the shop!
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There are certain things about every month that I love, but I look forward to October more than any I think. Getting fresh apple cider, apples, gourds and squash, honey, jams, apple butter, oh the apple butter from local orchards is always a high point. It’s all so delicious and inspiring. The colors, tastes, and smells. The cool weather moving all of us Read more →

Over Chirstmas break I went into a bag making frenzy. I made myself a market bag, my sister 2, and had plans for another for my friend. When she came over to pick out her fabric her daughter came along too. I told her that I would make her a market bag just for her. You know, kid’s sized. She picked out some awesome fabric and buttons for it. I whipped it right up and dropped it off at her house. I never did finish her mom’s bag. Her birthday in April for sure.

Download the pattern here (pdf).

In other news, I am back on track, almost. This week my two goals are to update the shop (finally, i know, i know, long time since the last time), update the archive, and get a head start on clm for April (which is going to kick butt because it’s my birthday month, so it will be some of my favorite things in this issue). Sign up to the mailing list (link in the side bar) if you want to get Short notices when I update the shop.

On other fronts, I got my hands on a loom this past weekend! for free! you can read about it over on the Kristin Roach: Blog. I’m going to be posting shots of all the other fun stuff that came with it this week coming up too. I have been so lucky. There are pictures of it crammed into my van on my flickr page.

And last, but not least, I have new yarn in my other shop, Green Prairie Fibers, and the cool new thing is that I now have yarn for dyeing, so in the raw that you can try dyeing yourself. Right now just sock and worsted, but I’m adding some dk and bulky merino soon. Oh and I’m adding some stitch markers too! I made the beads myself, hooray and fancy!

See you all later!