Honeybee*Hill

I’ve been dealing with a lot of headaches lately, which is really unusual for me. I admit that I’ve never really suffered from headaches before in the past — but all weekend and week I’ve just had terrible splitting pain and I’ve even started taking ibuprofen for it! I always try to rehydrate before popping a pill, but it has just not helped at all.

I’ve had kind of a crappy craft week too. I bought a bunch of fat quarters and some linen with the intention of making placemats and new napkins for spring.

Well my original plan was to finish the linen with my hemming foot and put on the little pockets for the napkins and silverware (I wanted something that we could roll up and move from dining room table to coffee-table (where we normally eat, ha!). I cut two placemats from the linen to begin with. So my hemming foot experiments were a disaster and I just ended up ripping out so many stitches I finally gave up and just serged around the edges. I guess the linen I bought is too heavy for the foot? It would scroll nicely for five or six inches then slip out completely.

I’m really not thrilled by how it turned out though (and see that nice waterspot where my iron leaked all over it?!?!), so I haven’t cut into the rest of the linen yet. The second placemat I made unraveled so badly from me ripping out the stitches that I just turned it into a drawstring bag for my Rider tarot deck. I have been wanting to make some new bags for my cards, but I wasn’t thrilled with how it turned out either, frankly. I used a tutorial I found online for the lined bag and I’m just not sure it’s appropriate for tarot cards really. The way the bag gathers is just very awkward and it’s hard to close all around. Ugggh. Well it’s pretty and it works though.

I don’t think I ever posted a picture of the birthday pants I made for Sullivan. I did these last Friday while he was napping. Making pants for babies is so easy and quick. I was actually really pleased with how these turned out. That print on the cuff? That’s the same print that I used for my wetbag that hangs on the bathroom door! Hehe. He looked wicked adorable in the pants too. Next time though I need to make the rise a little more generous because his big stuffed cloth butt doesn’t want to fit in these super well.

I’ve been sooooo patiently waiting for lots and lots of fabric to arrive. I am waiting on bamboo velour, hemp fleece and french terry, birdseye cotton and some fun recycled poly fabric. The only fluffy mail I’ve gotten so far is the bamboo interlock (which is LUSH FOR SERIOUS). I did get a fun box from Dharma today though and it’s so nice and sunny out, which means lots of really fun and colorful stuff that my product testers should be really excited about!!

I still have a headache though — right over my temples. Maybe some time outside arguing with Sullipants over whether or not he can play in wet fabric and dye will make it go away… probably not though.

We’re still getting to know each other, but I can tell we’re going to be fast friends.

Why does it have to be impossible to thread though? I liked this one because I don’t have to switch a plate or a foot for a rolled edge hem. Yummy! I’m such a sewing nerd.

I made this for dinner tonight and it was tasty! I had to add more garlic and more curry than the recipe called for.

And here’s the sourdough:

It was definitely tasty… had a bit of a fruity flavor because of the cherries I added to the starter. It didn’t rise as much as I would have liked and the bread was awfully dense. I think next time I might add a pinch of yeast after all.