Adult-sized cravats from Baby Hobo are here!

I know, you were sitting there on one of your self-imposed bi-hourly cubicle breaks,  munching on BB-Q Cheetos, lost in a staring zone with that crazy sunglass-wearing cheetah when it occurred to you:  "When is that Baby Hobo (TM) going to bring adult sized cravats made from re-purposed materials to the masses?  It's freezing up in this shizzy.  Adult-sized cravats are overdue.  Overdue."

Then this post popped up in your Google Reader and you were like, "YES!" And you frantically searched for a tissue or something to wipe the greasy, radioactive red powder off your hand so you could scroll down and see these pictures of the first batch.  Finally, you settled on using the edge of your office chair thinking that hey, your pant leg would probably brush it off over time. That's what happened.

Look for these at Green Genes in Chicago on Clark Street.

Time For Sweater Pants, YES!

My baby got blown down yesterday.  Like, actually blown over from the wind here.  Twice.  Luckily, I was spotting her, so she didn't go all the way down, but still!  Skeery.  So we went inside and made these sweater pants to start preparing her for harsher times. 

And my serger now actually works which has changed my life.  I took it to the shop and the guy looked at me, all not wanting to embarass me and told me, "Yeah, this happens with a lot of beginners, which is that your thread just isn't pulled into your tension knob at all up here at the top..."

WHAT?  An year and half of being tangled up and cursing my way through every battle with that thing and my thread just wasn't in the tension knob?  If you know about a serger, you know they are notoriously complicated and I thought I was all big in my britches because I could thread it correctly.  It's like brain surgery, what with having to use tweezers and everything.  Looks like this:

 
So, I had all that worked out and then found out my thread just wasn't nesting down into the tension guide at the top of the machine.  Seriously, the hours lost!


But we've conquered, and I made these:

See here, my expert serging technique.  HA!

 

For once, someone could look at the inside of something I've sewn and it would actually look finished and sewn correctly.  Here's to Firsts.

Maria Vinker for IKEA

Can't believe this piece is at IKEA.  I'ma have to git it.  That is all.

Here I Am With a Finished Quilt!

I haven't posted in so long,  I almost have to relearn how to use my Blogger function.  Here are a list of things that may or may not have happened that may or may not have kept me from posting in so long:

1.) My sewing room was infested with Senegalese weasels and I had to hire the Animal Planet Police to come and film an episode of "Catch and Care: Animal 911" before I could get back in there and put the pedal to the metal.

2.) Our dear friends Abby and Michael are having a baby and I have been working on a quilt done by hand for them.

3.) We moved from the city to the suburbs.  Where's my Green Acre, bitches?

4.) I have a small child.  Her height is in the 75th percentile, her weight in the 50th, and her head in the 95th.  Which makes her a living bobble-head.  Her high maintenance 'tude is in the 436th percentile, so she requires a lot of time.

So, mostly it was the quilt and the moving.  But finally (!) I have pics to post of the quilt.  It is, as I've posted before, my first quilt.  It's made from re-purposed materials (sweatshirts and a sheet), and I made it without using a quilting hoop.  Still can't tell if that's a good thing or a bad thing.  But here it is.  I like it very much and am scared to make another because I might not like it this much.