Babes & Blankets
Yeah, yeah. I know. It’s been like two months. This part of the summer, it always seems to just… escape. After spying on some colors she’d chosen to make a mobile, I put together a quilt for a friend’s baby…
Summer Daze + Wiksten Tank
I do not drink 21st Amendment Brewery’s Hell or High Watermelon because the can is so darn good looking, but it is definitely a plus. As a lover of stouts and porters, this is the only wheat beer I can…
Instagram Coasters DIY Part 2: Assembly
Yesterday, we learned how to use Google Picasa to create a perfect grid of images, and ordered our fabric on Spoonflower. Now for the fun part: putting it all together! You’ll need: Quilting tools: Rotary cutter, mat, and ruler Scraps…
Instagram Coasters DIY Part 1: Organizing Photos and Ordering Fabric
Today, we’re going to cover the “technology” part of the DIY: dealing with your Instagram images and ordering your fabric. Preparing your Images 1. Download your Instagram photos You can do this in a few different ways. Some of you…
Small Things: DIY Fabric Instagram Coasters
I’ve been on the prowl for coasters for what seems like months. About four years ago, I bought a set of coasters handmade from old Queen records backed with cork, but frankly they’ve seen better days. Aside from most readily…
Lazy Sunday: Roman Shades
Lazy Sunday is day-drinking Dark & Stormies on the couch in the sunshine, with baseball on the TV, listening to the sound of lawnmowers throughout the neighborhood and putting off thinking about Monday. It’s also an excuse to recycle Instagram photos…
In which I sew a top and reconsider the blog
The name “Volkstricken” originated as my online knitting handle. I learned to knit from the internet in 2001 or 2002, before the video library of knittinghelp.com existed, and only just as the venerable free knitting magazine knitty.com was publishing its…