Thursday Challenge for this week is Play. These are some of my kids toys on the floor of my sewing room.

I thought you might be interested in the darts in my t-shirts. This pattern piece started out as Kwik Sew 2565. The changes are the side bust dart, the french dart, and the neckline. The original neckline was a crew neck with a thick band. It fit great, but it was not the best look [...]

Rubenesque (roo-buh-NESK) adjective Full-figured; rounded; voluptuous, [After Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) known for depiction of plump female figures in his paintings.] Rubens’s paintings: http://ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/rubens/ “But our society admires thinness — the Rubenesque Marilyn Monroe likely would be considered too plump these days — and so some of our children, in the quest to [...]

But not for long.

Hey, I’ve been abstinant for about 5 hours! I faced down 2 challenges this morning, the uneaten french toast fingers and real maple syrup my kids had for breakfast and the donuts on Sherry’s desk. So far, so good. I’m going swimming in a few minutes, too. I weighed myself this morning. It’s up. Perhaps [...]

Today we talked about triggers. Anything that trigger binging, purging, and restricting. The group filled the whiteboard with triggers which we listed under the following headings: External, Social, Hunger, Internal/Feeling/Physical, Thoughts. After that we did a not-very-fun exercise of writing down “3 Internal Factors That Trigger” and “Methods of lessening the effect of the triggers”. [...]

Cutting Table Blue Knit I posted this picture of my cutting table with a glass of water for last week’s Studio Friday. I recieved many comments asking what I am working on, so … The blue “tie dye” fabric is a printed knit, 50% cotton, 50% polyester, from Joann’s that I bought to make the [...]

Chunguita helped me out with the practical joke. Someone started this business with the toilets in the front yard. I don’t recall who did it to whom first, but Saundra recently retaliated against MC by carpeting her front yard with the carpet ripped out of Saundra’s house. The next day, I put an old, plastic [...]

I bought this fabric at an African import store in Oakland, but I’m not sure what to do with it, other than a quilted wall hanging sort of thing, which I really don’t want to do. Does anyone have any experience with this sort of fabric? And say, washing it? Any help, comments, or advice [...]