the runaway penguin

Mo is flying home today for Christmas so last night we stayed up late finishing a book we have been making for my nieces and nephew. I'm...

House T-shirt Originally uploaded by runawaypenguin My camera continues to have difficulty shooting the color purple. In real life thi...

House T-shirt Design (draft 2) Originally uploaded by runawaypenguin Getting closer! Last night I scanned this into an editing program...

House T-shirt Design (draft) Originally uploaded by runawaypenguin It's that time of year! At tea on Friday everyone with a submis...

Apparently this is work-in-progress week. Here's a third project I'm working on: taking out this nearly invisible hand-sewn hem. Mak...

You know that weird situation that happens where you spend an inordinate amount of time making a gift and the person you give it to just doe...

My mom and I collaborated to make this make-up case following the pattern in Hip to Stitch . Instead of closing the case with tied ribbons w...

It's not quite finished yet-can you see the pin sticking out of the bottom? More to follow. Stop. Hope all is well. Stop. Happy Holidays...

New game! Favorite object this week: I misplaced my keys this weekend, which makes life frustrating. Public safety called my room and left a...

Sometimes looming deadlines help me start working. And sometimes I make rubber stamps instead. In my defense, there is no way that I would h...

This is one of the other books I made last summer. I found the fabric in a thrift store in the basement of a church. They were only open for...

Last summer I decided that I wanted to bind books. Immediately. Lucky for me I found a great book in the library which explained the entire ...

One of the students in my typography class set the poem " The Emperor of Ice Cream " by Wallace Stevens. For the facing page in th...

As you can see in the sidebar, my design was accepted at Threadless for voting. I'm very excited. While I was waiting I kept worrying th...

This is my plan for an apron with an inset scrap border. My other idea was to make a Chinese Coin quilt, which is the smaller doodle on the ...

Nervous nervous! I just submitted this design to Threadless , and I'll hear back in 4-8 days about whether they will put it up for votin...