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Well, I finished Pink’s Octopus this morning!  I was planning to finish him last night, actually, but the camera battery died and I had to stop so that I could get enough pictures for the tutorial.  Not that it really matters, I couldn’t have mailed him this morning even if I had finished last night. [...]

My good little boys were in their cube when I came out this morning!  I was actually planning to take out all of the hammocks and do a full cage cleaning today, but I was so happy to see them sleeping somewhere other than the liner that I am going to leave things be for [...]

I posted him on Goosemoose already, but I may as well toss him up on my blog. I just finished this little guy last night. I love the Marshall Pet Octo-Play but I definitely do not love Marshall. I’m also not a fan of the fact that it only comes in red! [...]

Here is Othello showing off the new cube that was made for today’s Tutorial.
As a warning, this tutorial contains videos that I uploaded to YouTube.. so if you can’t view YouTube videos for some reason, you may have some difficulty with this tutorial. If that is the case, I would be more than happy [...]

Well, I’ve basically finished my Goosemoose Secret Pal’s gift (I’ll post pictures after she receives it) so I’ll be back to the sewing board soon.  Perhaps Monday, have a wedding shower and a dinner to go to this weekend.
Curiously, does anyone have a preference as to what they would like to see next?  I’m thinking [...]

I’ve just realized that I somehow failed to post a Standard Hammock Tutorial! How could I forget that?!
Anyway, it is (obviously) up now, although I’d imagine that if you’ve made any of the other hammocks in my tutorials then you can probably already make a standard. I suppose it is good [...]

Well, it took a little longer than I had been planning on to sit down and do the Triangle Tutorial, but I was understandably (at least I hope understandably!) distracted by the massive cuteness that Hamlet and Othello represent.
I will warn you that the tutorial is quite long.  It isn’t terribly difficult, just difficult to [...]

You may now view the slip-stitching video here. I don’t have a video camera, unfortunately, so this is taken on my regular camera. It gets a bit fuzzy at some points since the video function isn’t great, but it is definitely functional and isn’t fuzzy at any truly important parts.

This machine is just so fantastic. I just finished my first piece without the machine tweaking out on me, and the stitches are just so perfect, even, and strong! I’ll be piecing together a double bunk soon and I’m a little bit nervous about how that will go (since I don’t know what [...]

I will be taking a brief hiatus from tutorial posting. I just received a new (old) sewing machine from my grandmother and am going to need a few days of working with it before anything I sew is of tutorial quality. It is an ancient Kenmore (I don’t actually know what year it [...]