Sewing Adventure - V - Pillow Galore

Going to the fabric store has become my new stress buster.. walking amidst the amazing fabric designs is so inspiring. so picked up all this fabric and wanted to make a pillow for everyone i know! since i can't practically do that, i made a set for amma and atha. Making the bolsters was hardest and most time taking and the patchwork for atha's diwan set was a great learning experience. All in all, it was great fun. but i think i overdid, i will be taking a break from sewing for a while!

Sewing Adventure - IV - Patchwork Purse

I love my grandma (who doesn't!) .. she has made numerous crochet dresses/purses/hair clips for me, that i always wanted to make something for her.

I thought I finally knew that i could make her something, so I went to the fabric store and loved what i bought! The process was lengthier than i thought, but i was so excited to see the end product.

Sewing Adventure - III - Pattu-Pavada

Maya is our neighbour's baby girl and is sooper cute! I decided to make her pattu pavada. my first attempt at sewing clothes andi thought baby clothes were easy. later found out, NO!

but i had amazing fun making it and much much more when maya actually wore it, she looked adorable!

The pavada was good size, but the first attempt at the blouse wasn't a hit. i took too long, maya grew bigger :) so i remade it and this time it fit her! yay!

Sewing Adventure - II - Patchwork

Sue introduced me to patchwork in a very inspiring and informative way. I spent an entire afternoon in her awesome sewing room learning basics of patchwork and quilting, in exchange for showing her how i made palak paneer! how cool is that! She gave me a looot of fabric and the coolest thread cutter i have seen and a ton of books to ooh-aah on! so i had a hard time piecing the tiny 1.5" squares i cut up (later learnt .. NOT a beginner's project)... but when we got done, we loved it and hung it besides the game of life and circle of reason. :)

Sewing Adventure - I - pillow covers

So the thread is in the machine and fabric in my hands. Did a lot of google-reading (i wonder how people learnt new things w/o google!).

Learnt a lot of basics about fabric. With all this gyaan from google, i set out to make these lovely pillow covers in an evening, withotu using scissors!

PS: i later googled (yes again!) and found that these pillows were priced @ 65$ each! ;) :D howeeesit!

Sewing Adventure - Introduction

So the new hobby has set in my head. The husband bought me the New Complete Guide to Sewing and i love it! Like Kaushik said 'we reap what we sew'!

Happy Holidays 2009

The 2009 Holiday Season was awesome! Did a lot of baking, painting and geared up for the next adventure - Sewing!

Food Adventure XX - Spinach Lasagna

Good friends, Bhavna-Sunil were moving to UK and gave us their glass baking dish. In their honour made some awesome spinach-red bell pepper lasgna. Layers of spinach in red bell pepper - tomato sauce, ricotta cheese in between whole wheat lasagna noodles baked at 450F for 15-20 mins and it came out perfect!

Food Adventure XIX - barotha-goorma!

so the husband wanted some barotha-goorma (Chennai style parantha-kurma). I had so much fun making them!

Good fun for exam-season.

Food Adventure XVIII - Butter it up!

There isn't one desi restaurant on the foreign soil that doesn't serve paneer and naan. so we set out to make our own version of paneer butter masala and butter naan.

It was a great experience - making of the naan. I felt like the chef we used to love watching as kids in Jorhat, he would toss us the roomali rotis for us kids ooh-aahs. But i hadn't expected the yeast to smell so weird! But when they came out of the oven, it was awesome!