Posted on September 3rd, 2011 by mountain girl | 4 Comments »
Meet my new bag. The old one was worn and torn beyond repair, so it was definitely time for something new. I had the perfect bag sketched out in my mind: one with a bit of volume – not just a front and back, but a bottom, too – one large enough for my water […]
Posted on September 1st, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on japanese-y fabrications
This fabric is completely unlike anything I’ve ever bought before. But at Hobby Lobby the other day, I kept circling back to it. There was something fresh and different about it that attracted me, and finally, jumping way out on a limb, I bought 2 yards of it. Something about the overlay of the squares […]
Posted on July 21st, 2011 by mountain girl | Comments Off on pointillism skirt
To celebrate all the rain we’ve had this July, I made a new skirt for Zia. I loved this fabric the moment I saw it. It’s a spin off Georges Seurat’s famous pointillist painting, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. I’m not sure just how dry these umbrellas will actually keep my rain […]
Posted on June 30th, 2011 by mountain girl | 1 Comment »
She has ten more days before she turns 4, but I made her birthday skirt tonight. She picked out the pink cheetah fabric and I used the style of the daisy skirt she loves and wears day in and day out. Happy birthday-skirt day, my still 3 year-old girl!
Posted on May 19th, 2011 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Some knitting projects just take a whole lot longer than planned. But that can be a very good thing, because as you may have guessed, I love to knit. Really, there is nothing like knitting. You can knit while you’re waiting at the DMV, you can knit when it’s raining outside, you can knit with your […]