DragonCon 2018! This year Abels Innovations made our first cosplay commission! I learned so much during this project! Last year at Dragon Con I spent quite a while talking with a friend about costuming, sewing, and the Captain Marvel flight suit I was wearing. By the end of the conversation I was offering to commission …
Part of sending Babels to daycare during the week is packing his bottles and food for the day. A standard practice is preparing the formula or breastmilk beforehand. Originally, I put them in a lunch box, but they often fell over during the car ride. Almost every day I was cleaning out spilled formula, or …
Well we moved and I got a new job and the blog posts got delayed… a bit. Babels costume #1: Salamence I managed to find appropriately colored knits in the remnants bin at Joann’s Fabric. Hooray for only needing small pieces of fabric. I resized my pattern up a size and started cutting, which …
We have moved! Abels Innovations has relocated to South Florida. This means I had to tear down my sewing area in Tallahassee and make a new one. In Tally, James’s home office shared space with my crafting area. But literally until the day we actually moved, I had no idea what my new sewing area …
Did you know that infant sleep cycles are only about 45 minutes long? So when #Babels does actually nap in his crib (rarely) I only get a small window of opportunity to sew. Sewing has become my stress relief mechanism. On the rare occasion the baby is asleep and I don’t have other more important …
During my few months of intense nesting during pregnancy, I decided to make some soft baby blocks for Babels. I’d made some of these before for a friend’s baby. This was a scrap fabric project, I have a ton of scraps and random fat quarters of fabric, so I had most of the materials I …
The real reason we reproduce is to dress our offspring up in costumes, right? DragonCon is fast approaching and it’s time to start getting serious about costumes. But not for me, for my new baby. James and I have some cosplay favorites in our repertoire so we’ll be adding the little one to our family …
How many times have you lined up two pieces of fabric and then at the end of the seam the top piece is longer than the bottom!? This drives me nuts, especially when trying to sew in sleeves. Stay tuned for the answer to all your problems! I’ve been sewing for about four years now. …
I got a breast pump free from my insurance and it came in a very classy cardboard box. I decided I needed something a little nicer to tote my breast pump around in. The name brand pump bags are hella expensive and usually a nondescript black bag. So I went to the mommy discussion boards …