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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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greetings from narwhal-land!

velour plush whalesI have begun to refer to my room as the Narwhal Factory (others may argue for Taiwanese Sweatshop), considering that besides homework, eating, and sleeping (in that order), narwhals are basically what I do. I’m not complaining. I’m almost complaining. …

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narwhals and news

narwhals in bulk

lotsa boxesOn Monday, I sent off a total of six narwhals for one group of people… that’s a record! It was a bit stressful to do so many at once while keeping up with work and such, but knowing that there …

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