I love costumes, and I love bowling, so for my 30th birthday I invited all my friends to a costume bowling party at the local lanes. The challenge was then to create a costume that 1) allowed the freedom of movement necessary for bowling, 2) kept my drinking hand free, and 3) looked good with bowling shoes. My solution: a bobby-soxer. Of course, I couldn't just make a boring poodle skirt. Instead, I invented the Octopoodle Skirt, the poodle skirt of the aughts. I made a circle skirt from a navy blue linen-cotton blend (I a
I've been embroidering a lot lately, so I suppose it's time for me to start posting some of these projects. This is an embroidered picture that I started last year when I collected some oak leaves on a trip to Starved Rock State Park. I traced the leaf and filled it in using a stem stitch in shades of brown, tan, cream, lavender and lilac. The background is a delicate quilting calico that I think might be vintage. I enjoy using calico prints for my embroidered projects instead of just plain white or cream. I have lots more little embroidered pictures that I'm going to start framing up in the hopes of selling them at the Renegade Craft Fair in September.]]>