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  I'm Sam, a college student, engineer, seamstress, crafter, & entrepreneur. Enjoy perusing photos of my sewing and craft-related adventures. I hope my blog brings inspiration and happiness to your day!

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narwhals 2.0!

New Narwhal Plush - Gray!

Here is the result of all my scheming and assembly line work: the brand new, re-imagined Plush Narwhals 2.0!

The little guys are made from the softest gray fleece in the world. I don’t know what it is …

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working the assembly line

I love working assembly-line style.

piles of bellies

I love cutting out piles of pieces, stacking them ever higher, envisioning the army of plush these flat shapes will become.

fleece scraps

I love plowing through the fabric, breaking down its giant, foldable self into useful …

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why, hello there!

I hope your 2011 has been going along nicely. Mine, so far, has started slowly. This January, for me, has been a month of observing.

I’m typically a do-er, a producer. I sew and photograph and blog. But in …

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on the other side

What have I been up to in the last 3 weeks?

Final projects, final exams, coming back home to Virginia, Christmas shopping…

and a whole lot of these.
cart full of narwhals

This is only a portion of those that have been sent out! …

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self-portrait of a seamstress

self-portrait of a seamstress

my creative space: a narwhal factory, in black & white.

And how are the little guys coming out?

plush narwhal

Quite well, I’d say.

Happy Thursday, everyone!…

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tiny, tiny narwhal

A few weeks ago, I received an intriguing email. A pair of college students has plans to travel the world someday, and they want their own travel buddy, a “travelocity gnome” of sorts, that they can photograph in all sorts …

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