I Should Have Known Better

January 25, 2010

Getting all cocky last week about how much I could do. About how well-adjusted my toddler was that I could draft patterns and volunteer time and be social. About how accomplished a multi-tasker I was that I could design websites and cook dinners and take showers.
I should have known better.
This week is shaping up to [...]

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41 Things

January 24, 2010

You absolutely don’t need to know about me:
My favorite smell is ocean

I can not stand the smell of perfume. any perfume.
I don’t have a middle name
I am a creature of habit
I can identify most any dog breed (it’s a gift)
I don’t care for Halloween or Valentine’s Day
I love Thanksgiving
My grandmother once told me that I [...]

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Idle Hands

January 22, 2010

Cooking, sewing, writing, tickling, typing, building, coloring, playing, kneading, comforting, making, tying, knitting, working.

The hands in our house are always busy.
A few of the things keeping my hands busy this week:
the Craft Hope for Haiti Etsy Shop
the Metro New York City Area Modern Quilter’s Guild
a new and improved Roundabout Quilt Pattern (this time I’m including [...]

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Hear Me Roar

January 19, 2010

Sometimes inspiration grabs me and won’t let me go until my shoulders ache from cutting fabric. Until my eyes are watery with squinting at binding stitches. Until I notice a two year old eating corn chips out of the bag. On my bed.

I had that day yesterday.

I finished piecing a quilt. I finished binding another [...]

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Sleeping Babies

January 16, 2010

Last night before going to sleep I crept into Quinn’s room and watched him sleep. It’s among the greatest joys of being a mother—watching one’s child sleep. But last night I needed to touch him.
I took him from his crib (against every rule of motherhood) and carried him to our bed where we lay tangled [...]

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My Day in Photos

January 8, 2010

I don’t have much to say today.

Yesterday my family got news of a possible health scare with my father.
The end of the story is that he’s fine but before the day was over my emotions had turned me into a marshmallow.

Today was quieter.
Our lovely babysitter came to watch Quinn and instead of working I went [...]

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Menemsha Quilt

January 7, 2010

This sunny quilt was made to welcome a new baby into the world and was born of multiple inspirations.

I guess it’s plain from the photo that I gravitate towards these colors. Those four pitchers are favorites among my collection. And I guess you can also see that my walls are painted yellow.
I started the construction [...]

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Bar Code Quilt

January 4, 2010

I have a problem with fabric but it’s not the one you think.
It’s not that I can’t stop myself from buying it or that I hoard it away and never cut into it.
My problem is that I’m overwhelmed by it. There are too many choices. Should I buy the whole line? Fat quarters? Just the [...]

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Off and Running

January 3, 2010

Yesterday I spent some time alone with my eldest in the morning

It’s becoming a Saturday tradition.
After (what seemed like) a very long stretch of time home with both boys, it was much needed.
While there are many things I love about the large age gap between them, it also proves logistically difficult at certain moments.
I found [...]

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A Celebration List

December 29, 2009

I wrote this last December 31st and it still rings true with me this year.
While considering for a moment what I might resolve for the coming year it occurred to me that such resolutions often seem to serve only one purpose: to remind me of my failures over the past twelve months. So tonight, on [...]

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