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…
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…
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 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…
Last weekend while cleaning out our closets, I found one of my favorite photos of me ever, from a sixth grade academic games competition: I could care less that we won second place that year; I was wearing my favorite…
Without getting into details, it’s been a stressful last few weeks. I’ve pulled a few late nights, have had lots of bad dreams, and I feel like I’ve been running on that anxious energy you get when things are uncertain….
Today, I’m really excited to announce that I’ve actually been following through on a number of things on my personal to-do list lately. Including writing up my first ever knitting pattern! Never you mind that it was 70 degrees and…
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…
I’m not entirely sure how two weeks have passed without an update here. And what do we have to show for ourselves? We carted five overflowing truckloads of dead shrubs, overgrown azaleas, and pine branches to the local wood waste…
I’m (re) starting a blog and I don’t have a monologue. I don’t really have anything specific in mind. This isn’t a challenge-style “photo a day” type blog. It isn’t professional, since I don’t yet work for myself – although…