the peaceful peacock

Well hello there!!  After a long and what you would think would be peace­ful break, I have hap­pily returned to the blog and to mak­ing lit­tle things for my Etsy shop!  Now wait a minute, what do I mean the break wasn’t peace­ful? I’m let­ting the cat out the bag:  I was bat­tling some pretty […]

Here are the actual sewing instruc­tions for the dia­pers. If you would like to draft a pat­tern, you will find my tuto­r­ial here, and if you would like to see instruc­tions for cut­ting the fab­ric then check here. You can eas­ily make these dia­pers using a serger or a stan­dard sewing machine, instruc­tions for both […]

The Boy in his new draw­ers. In this post, I’ll be explain­ing how to cut the dia­pers. In the inter­est of sav­ing some con­fu­sion, the actual sewing instruc­tions are posted as Part 3. The pat­terns are now avail­able in The Store for pur­chase if you are not inter­ested in draft­ing your own pat­tern for these […]

There is such a learn­ing curve to babies. As the boy grows, I keep dis­cov­er­ing all of these tricks and tools that almost make me want to have another baby just so I can use them on the new kid from the get-go. That’s how I feel about these hand­made cloth dia­pers. These are what […]

Here is the first ver­sion of a wool dia­per cover that I made from an old wool sweater.  You know, I really hate mak­ing the first ver­sion of things.  I know that it’s going to turn out ok but not great, so it feels like a waste of time.  But hon­estly there is just no […]

The flow­ers from AnnieDesign are all here!  Cute lit­tle bug­gers, aren’t they?  Fin­ish­ing this project is at the top of the list for this week. Since there is no Farm­ers Mar­ket this week (the fair is com­ing, silly) I am tak­ing this oppor­tu­nity to catch up on a few ideas and fur­ther develop some prod­ucts in […]