Comments on: Roll With It http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/ it is possible to get random results from normal equations Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:00:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: angrybaker http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1366 angrybaker Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:33:19 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-1366 It seems like each time I make one I do something a little differently, but the one thing I always do is leave the side (without the ribbon) open for turning rightside out. I think it makes the lines look cleaner. I can reach in and use the ribbon to pull it back out and then I use a knitting needle to poke out the corners.Then just iron and top stitch. I've also used scrap fabric (like my son's old khakis) as interfacing and that gives it a nice soft thickness. I just increase the seam allowance and sew it to the wrong side of the outside piece. Or sometimes I just use one fabric for the inside and outside and cut a 10 X 16 1/2 piece that I fold and press in half (making sure I get the interfacing in there). Anyway you do it, it's an easy project and immediate gratification:) It seems like each time I make one I do something a little differently, but the one thing I always do is leave the side (without the ribbon) open for turning rightside out. I think it makes the lines look cleaner. I can reach in and use the ribbon to pull it back out and then I use a knitting needle to poke out the corners.Then just iron and top stitch.

I’ve also used scrap fabric (like my son’s old khakis) as interfacing and that gives it a nice soft thickness. I just increase the seam allowance and sew it to the wrong side of the outside piece.

Or sometimes I just use one fabric for the inside and outside and cut a 10 X 16 1/2 piece that I fold and press in half (making sure I get the interfacing in there).

Anyway you do it, it’s an easy project and immediate gratification:)

]]> By: Kristine M. http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1365 Kristine M. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:58:41 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-1365 So I saw the Skip to my Lou tutorial on the crayon rolls, what do you do different? So I saw the Skip to my Lou tutorial on the crayon rolls, what do you do different?

]]> By: angrybaker http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-401 angrybaker Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:28:18 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-401 What?! You for sure know I'm not ideal in any way. Crazy, maybe. Irreverent, definitely. I don't sew - I try to sew and live with the results. You should see the doll clothes I attempted. I tell people that the 4 yr old made them. And send me some pics of your fam. We need to send real emails soon. What?! You for sure know I’m not ideal in any way. Crazy, maybe. Irreverent, definitely. I don’t sew – I try to sew and live with the results. You should see the doll clothes I attempted. I tell people that the 4 yr old made them.
And send me some pics of your fam. We need to send real emails soon.

]]> By: charity http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-400 charity Sat, 17 Apr 2010 05:54:17 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-400 I needed to read that sometimes you have those days, too, since you seem so ideal to me. I didn't know you sew. The last things I made were American Girl doll clothes because, well, I'm cheap. I don't want to buy them. I needed to read that sometimes you have those days, too, since you seem so ideal to me.

I didn’t know you sew. The last things I made were American Girl doll clothes because, well, I’m cheap. I don’t want to buy them.

]]> By: angrybaker http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-391 angrybaker Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:22:10 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-391 Yay! We should now form a club to hate that quote together. I really thought everyone loved it. I won't give you a pep talk either, but I will say you will never be ordinary to me. At least your not Tom Hanks, right? Yay! We should now form a club to hate that quote together. I really thought everyone loved it. I won’t give you a pep talk either, but I will say you will never be ordinary to me. At least your not Tom Hanks, right?

]]> By: Sarah http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Sarah Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:39:26 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-383 Oh, how I love this post which sounds horrible to say because you sound kind of down in it, but I love it because I can relate. I have a hard time articulating my feelings about motherhood. I have attempted a few posts about it on my blog, but then people just write me and tell me how sacred it is and blah, blah, blah and then I kind of feel more inadequate. I feel your post says what I feel perfectly. I actually have always felt and still do that I'm meant for something bigger, which in a way kind of sounds vain, but that's how I feel (like I'm supposed to have another profession beyond being a mother). It's kind of like how I feel after watching conference, which sounds horrible. I feel inspired but also like a horrible mother. This past conference kept saying "teach your children" over and over and over. Yikes. I'm in trouble. I usually get pretty depressed about it and then I sew because all of a sudden I feel like I'm working and creating something. I will make the crayon tutorial when my sewing machine gets out of storage. All my fabric is in storage too. I stocked up on fabric awhile ago when I got good deals on it and it's just sitting there waiting to be used. Oh, how I love this post which sounds horrible to say because you sound kind of down in it, but I love it because I can relate. I have a hard time articulating my feelings about motherhood. I have attempted a few posts about it on my blog, but then people just write me and tell me how sacred it is and blah, blah, blah and then I kind of feel more inadequate. I feel your post says what I feel perfectly. I actually have always felt and still do that I’m meant for something bigger, which in a way kind of sounds vain, but that’s how I feel (like I’m supposed to have another profession beyond being a mother). It’s kind of like how I feel after watching conference, which sounds horrible. I feel inspired but also like a horrible mother. This past conference kept saying “teach your children” over and over and over. Yikes. I’m in trouble. I usually get pretty depressed about it and then I sew because all of a sudden I feel like I’m working and creating something. I will make the crayon tutorial when my sewing machine gets out of storage. All my fabric is in storage too. I stocked up on fabric awhile ago when I got good deals on it and it’s just sitting there waiting to be used.

]]> By: Am http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-381 Am Fri, 16 Apr 2010 03:28:57 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-381 Ok, I read this post right before I left the house this morning and thought about it a lot. I've always hated that quote too. And, I agree whole-heartedly that my biggest fear is that I'm ordinary. I can think of a few experiences in my life when I felt really ordinary/plain (one of them was when I was on bed rest with the twins and Ryan's mom ran into his x-girlfriend at a gym) and I was terrified that I was soooo boring and uninteresting. Usually those feelings are followed by me trying to be someone I'm not...pretending that I'm really athletic and sports are cool or something like that. I miss you too! Ok, I read this post right before I left the house this morning and thought about it a lot. I’ve always hated that quote too. And, I agree whole-heartedly that my biggest fear is that I’m ordinary. I can think of a few experiences in my life when I felt really ordinary/plain (one of them was when I was on bed rest with the twins and Ryan’s mom ran into his x-girlfriend at a gym) and I was terrified that I was soooo boring and uninteresting. Usually those feelings are followed by me trying to be someone I’m not…pretending that I’m really athletic and sports are cool or something like that. I miss you too!

]]> By: Maryanne http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Maryanne Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:30:25 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-372 I've always found that quote a little, well, weird. I don't know if it helps to say that I have days like that too. And that I do have a sewing machine and should really make cool crayon rolls like that. I’ve always found that quote a little, well, weird. I don’t know if it helps to say that I have days like that too. And that I do have a sewing machine and should really make cool crayon rolls like that.

]]> By: angrybaker http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-368 angrybaker Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:03:52 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-368 I'm glad somebody else doesn't like that quote - it felt blasphemous admitting that. I prefer the line from the Incredibles. Helen says, "Everyone's special, Dash." And Dash mutters under his breath, "Which is another way of saying no one is." I’m glad somebody else doesn’t like that quote – it felt blasphemous admitting that. I prefer the line from the Incredibles. Helen says, “Everyone’s special, Dash.” And Dash mutters under his breath, “Which is another way of saying no one is.”

]]> By: Nova Brown http://www.5waits.com/blog/2010/04/roll-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-367 Nova Brown Wed, 14 Apr 2010 02:51:43 +0000 http://www.5waits.com/blog/?p=1282#comment-367 Have I told you lately how much I love your crayon rolls? Have I told you lately how much I love your crayon rolls?

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