If you are trying to conserve face fabric (you know, the fancy stuff you put on the outside) and/or trying to get as many masks out of a piece of fabric as you can, you may be interested in how I modify the Owl Be Sewing pattern I talk about in my pervious post about face coverings into an Olsen-style mask. Also included below is a tip on how I add the nose wire channel to the masks. Modify the…
Anybody else remember Cooking Light magazine? Back in the time before the internet killed magazines, this was my favorite cooking magazine. I liked that they removed fat but added flavor by adding more ingredients, though I admit some of those ingredient lists were dauntingly long. I made this banana bread pretty regularly for the Sunday Night Dinner family. I’m thinking I will share the recipes from that era here in future posts. Tonight I made the recipe with a whole…
This recipe has become a staple here. Since the shelter in place started…has it been six months now? Anyway, since the whole covid-19 restrictions we’ve come to enjoy our own cooking even more than going out. But occasionally ordering food for delivery is fun. We’ve recently discovered a new favorite Chinese restaurant, and it’s on weekly rotation now. We had some extra rice one week and I made rice pudding, and now we always order some extra rice to I…
I’ve been making mask and collected a bit of information about mask making, so I thought I’d write up what I’ve gathered so far. Scroll down to the Owl Be Sewing Pattern to skip to my current favorite pattern. The Deaconess Pattern I think the best mask, especially for beginners, is the Deaconess pattern. this is where I started myself. It’s quick to make and you don’t have to print anything out, just cut rectangles to size, which is also…
This post originally appeared at www.levanah.com January 24, 2011. Why do I love to sew, craft, draw? I’m pretty sure it has more to do with the fact that I love tools than anything else. A close second love would be boxes, but only because I can fill them with tools! I have another post planned where I discuss my reasons for sewing, but in all seriousness: I love the tools that go along with crafting, the more esoteric the…
Now that there are a bunch of new and returning sewists thanks to the covid-19 pandemic, due to either mask making or downtime due to the shelter in place, people have lots of questions about sewing. This takes me back to the late 2000’s when I really got into sewing and even went to earn a dressmaking and costume making certificate at Cañada College (still in progress, I got distracted by a new horse!). Back then we had so many…
Might as well start this blog off with my most recent project: my Mad Hatter costume for the Halloween Hunter Pace (a type of horse show). I made the Wellington helmet cover from craft foam and I plan on sharing my process shortly. I’m just putting this here as a teaser until I get the whole post and site together. And so people will stop calling me and asking me if I want them to build me a website.…
It’s always irritated me that people are so unforgiving with beginners. I usually think that people who don’t speak nicely of other people are just small-minded and don’t have anything better to do, but bagging on beginners is especially annoying. Yes some people are just trying to give feedback, but others are just being rude because it makes them feel better about their own achievements (or lack thereof). For example, I sing. I don’t sing around other people if I…
The other day Rob and I had a conversation that went something like: Me: What’s a word for something that never existed and is extinct?Rob: Mythical?Me: I mean like a Brontosaurus. Yes I know that the Brontosaurus continues to exist as the Apatasaurus, but there was something awesome about the huge vegetarian dinosaur with the long neck and tail and the tiny head named “thunder lizard.” Who could prefer the name “deceptive lizard” over “thunder lizard”? And don’t forget that when…