Planet Nice Crafts

After a mild start, we are in the thick of a nice normal Chicago winter with plenty of snow and cold to go around. The days are getting longer and the Southern exposure of the sun, when it decides to come out, is the best light ever. To go with the weather, the Spring semester started – it must be a sign that time should be spent indoors on homework. Before moving to Planet Nice Crafts updates, I would like to share this Ralph Pucci advertisement, found in a recent issue of Architectural Digest. I think the chair bears resemblance to a bean bag chair, don’t you think? The last week of Winter Break was very productive with two museum visits and progress made on the Planet Nice Crafts bean bag chair.  The construction of the cover started with the pocket – specially cut so it would blend with the one of the panels. I hope you can see it below. The big stitches are temporary basting stitches used to keep the pocket in place while the pocket was attached by machine stitchi

We made it through the holiday season and Planet Nice Crafts’ first year to 2019 and the blog’s second year. As predicted, the holiday season was quite hectic with cleaning, shopping, writing out cards, baking, decorating, wrapping presents, cooking meals, and socializing. It was sometimes a blur, but I am happy with how it all turned out.  I hope all of you had an enjoyable holiday season. As for the holiday recovery process, it has concluded. The Christmas tree is gone, the chairs are back in storage, and any leftover cookies were put in the freezer. This is good news because the new Winter semester is starting next week Tuesday. What put the final touch on the transition was the resuming of Planet Nice Crafts activities. The bean bag chair was initiated. This has been a good project because it has given me an opportunity to become more comfortable with a plaid fabric. The chair has two layers: a lining bag that will hold the pellets and an outer bag. The pattern suggested to u