By Madame Purl, on July 29th, 2010
Remember my lovely sewing machine from Monday’s post? My dear friend that I have cared for – oh for around 15 years. Not a scratch on her – just needed a tune up and good cleaning. Well it was apparently packed well. But it showed up cracked down there. It’s been tagged and put in [...]
By Madame Purl, on July 26th, 2010
Years ago…before the knitting, before the spinning, before the embroidery, before the weaving… I sewed. The only thing I did was sew. I took sewing classes from beginner to advance making a suit even shirts with matching plaids. Then I moved onto pattern making even able to make a pattern with just a string and [...]
By Madame Purl, on June 21st, 2009
I have so many sewing mishaps, it’s amazing I have the audacity to keep going back to the sewing well. Every once in a while though I get a sewing bug and can’t get rid of it without giving it a go. I decided I needed a journal cover for my new datebook. I bought [...]
By Madame Purl, on August 13th, 2007
I know… I took the weekend off from blogging. It was just plain busy. The nearly finished basement is just about finished. We put paint on and just a few more thing Monsieur Purl will do and the floor install should be done by Friday. Yipee!!! I’ll have all the pictures once it’s done and [...]
By Madame Purl, on September 23rd, 2006
Madame Purl has a mother. I know shocking, but true. Today Monsieur Purl had a few errands that I knew would take some time, so I asked to be dropped off at the JoAnn Fabrics in the same shopping center. He took about 45 minutes came in and headed to the Halloween section and entertained [...]