Bungalow Quilting - The Uptown in Any Town
Sewing with kids can be an either or. It can be super fun, laughable, and enlightening for both the student and the teacher. Or, it can be a chore that is onerous. My online dictionary defines onerous as (of a task, duty, or responsibility) involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome. Well, we don’t want it to be that do we! But it can be. It
A tip for you: Use a cut-off portion of a measuring tape (6 inches is recommended) and put it in your sewing basket or in your sewing table drawer. When you have to measure something as you are sewing, or hemming, or placing buttons or measuring a seam, you can just pull out this little piece of measuring tape and quickly measure. It eliminates unrolling a LONG, full tape and
This dress is now complete! It is made out of cotton lawn that is light as a feather and perfect for summer. The dress is a wrap dress, and Judy has the pattern in her shop, along with several colors of the lawn print. Want to know more about lawn so you can work with it easier? By definition it is a fine plain weave textile, chiefly of cotton. It
I went to the hospital today. I am not going to say which one. Suffice it to say it’s one of the larger ones in the Fox Cities. I am not sick. Quite the contrary. I am going to go back as a temp when the crisis hits Northeast Wisconsin. I’ve been an ICU nurse for 30+ years, and those of us that are well and able to help just
I have been asked to make a blog post about the fabric masks for PPE. There has been no small amount of controversy over these masks. I have been an ICU nurse (recently retired to run my business) for 30+ years. I have worked in situations where negative flow rooms are employed and N-95 masks needed. For lay people, this simply means that the patient is either suspected to be
Well you know we’re all pretty bummed about this Corona virus. And we’re all self quarantining. But that means more time in your sewing room! I decided that if we are going to keep up the morale in this country, it’s up to the quilters! Just hang a quilt outside everyday that we are being quarantined. It can be the same one day after day. Don’t let it get rained
This dress is being made from a fabric called Lawn – lightweight, with lots of “flow” to it. Judy has it in her shop, as well as the pattern. I think it will feel great on a warm spring or summer day, and is cute for casual or party wear. I’ve cut it out, opting for the short full sleeves and the shorter length. It’s hard to see, but there
For years we heard the phrase “you can’t force creativity”. Well, I am going to challenge that today. When you were in school, did you ever have to take classes that you hated? Of course you did. You even had to take classes that you weren’t good at. Well, unfortunately sometimes education is wasted on the very young. I have found myself saying that time and time again. I hold
Everyone loves a picnic. Well, sometimes when the bugs are bad it can be discouraging. But, other than that Wisconsinites, in particular, cannot wait to go outside and eat. You can see people in restaurants eating outside even when it’s in the 50s. There is such a novelty about eating out of doors. As soon as the sun is high enough in the sky people start to think about picnics.
I made these summer pj’s out of a soft Jersey knit from Bungalow. The pattern showed the top and shorts to be made of 2 contrasting fabrics. I changed it. I made the top yoke and shorts from one fabric, and the rest of the top from a sweet star-printed fabric. It provided much more interest . I then embroidered a series of aqua hearts (to match the aqua stars
Kim Van Berkum Bates
Kelly Robbert
