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		<title>Flowers while I wait</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate waiting. So rather than sit around a feel achey, I thought I would do some painting.  These are some flowers that David got me.  Aren&#8217;t they pretty? I had the idea to make this painting a bit flatter— like a print.  But it didn&#8217;t really work out.  I put too much detail into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More virtual sewing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or&#8230;those that can, sew.  Those that can&#8217;t, draw. The pieces of my sister&#8217;s dress are done and waiting for a fitting.  So what to do in the meantime?  I don&#8217;t have a mannequin of myself as I used to be shaped but I did come across a little croquis I had made.  So here I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1125</link>
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		<title>Any day now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our baby is due on Sunday.  As the doctor informed us, that means he could arrive at any time between now and three weeks from now.  Last week we asked the nurse if she could give us odds.  Maybe a nice probability distribution.  What should we expect in a totally normal pregnancy?  But she insisted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1140</link>
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		<title>One last empire dress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember how I said I was done with sewing empire-line dresses for the summer. Well I lied. But, it&#8217;s not a maternity dress, and it&#8217;s not for me.  It is for someone I love dearly, and for a very special occasion, which means I&#8217;m going to feel particularly awful if/when I fail to pull it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1113</link>
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		<title>Dubious roobius</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While David is never anything but supportive of my creative endeavors, I tend to greet his project ideas with what can best be described as bemused tolerance.  So when he proposed to make brandy from the bumper crops of pears we found in Vermont last fall, I said &#8220;That&#8217;s nice sweetie,&#8221; and assumed we&#8217;d be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1105</link>
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		<title>Vintage onesies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My parents came to visit this weekend and brought a surprise.  They&#8217;ve been staying at our family house up in Vermont (aka the family attic) and my mom came across a package of my grandfather&#8217;s baby clothes.  So what was the well-dressed austro-hungarian jewish infant wearing circa 1901?  Check it out: The details are amazing. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1090</link>
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		<title>Beached whale and giraffe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we saw our friends Michelle and Bart up in Maine.  Michelle was amazingly generous and loaded us up with baby stuff— I think we now have more clothes for the baby than for us.  At one point she held up a lion costume and asked me if I wanted it.  I said I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1078</link>
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		<title>Jacket fever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have jacket fever. I am so done with sewing empire-line maternity dresses.  I am so done with 95° + humidity.  I am so ready to sew a bunch of fitted fall jackets and skirts with funky linings and lots of detail. Yeah, I know I already posted a fall sewing plan with more garments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1058</link>
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		<title>A pouch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being a person of roo-ish persuasion, I am always on the lookout for a quality pouch.  In San Francisco there were a number of women who made and sold beautiful funky hand-made bags at street fairs and I would always drool over them and make David wait around while I looked at all of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1038</link>
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		<title>Tough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is another version of Burda 8071.  I made the princess-seamed version last year (view A).  This is the gathered-bodice version (view C).  I kept the back skirt piece (extending it to maxi-length) and did the slash-and-spread thing on the front piece to make room for the belly.  I have a feeling I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.spottedroo.com/blog/?p=1015</link>
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