Behold, the Baghemoth
I finally got over the flu, and had a chance to work more on my enormous versions of the Companion Carpet Bag. It’s turned out even larger than I thought it was going to be. ...
Month: January 2018
You Will Never Sew Better Than You Can Iron
I still remember learning to sew from my mother when she was young. It was an uphill battle – not because I am inept, but because I am spectacularly lazy, and I was only ever ...
One Year of This Shit
Today, I went to the Women’s March in Albany, one year after attending the march in DC. Obviously the crowd wasn’t as big, but there were good speakers, representing a broad spectrum of the population, ...
On Setting a Price
As I start to try to assemble my plan to turn bags into money for charity, inevitably, the issue of pricing comes up. And now that I’ve been sharing pictures of my bags on social ...
Hand me my leather…
I finished cutting out and punching the stitching holes for my Ladie’s Purse from 46 Leatherwork Projects. I’m learning a few things about working with leather… It’s frustratingly stretchy and smooshy, which makes it hard ...
Hitting My Stride
It’s been a long time since I posted, but a lot has happened in the last (almost) year. We’d already moved prior to my last post, but I can’t be the only one who takes ...