Archive for December 2008 | Monthly archive page
Tweet Gosh you know, once I learn a new trick, I just cannot stop repeating it …. over and over and over … such is my love of making yo-yos at the moment :-) And then there’s the whole lamp trick – ooooh! So, Abigail left yesterday for a week’s camping with her gorgeous friend [...]
Tweet The Christmas Chair Bags Done! Done! Done! Stitching three bags in quick succession provided me with a couple of important lessons this morning … 1. the back and front seams must butt – NOT overlap 2. the back and front seams must butt – NOT have a gap between them and the lesson we [...]
Tweet the Christmas breakfast cloth Found this gorgeous fabric as a remnant at the Brisbane Fabric Market. Just enough for our little breakfast table on the front porch. Hem, hem, hem, hem .. rick-rack – hey! you can’t have seersucker and strawberries without rick-rack! I’m certainly channelling Nannette with this fabric – I’m sure she [...]
Tweet Christmas Eve, Part I the last minute lamp This is a seriously good idea for a last minute present (despite having thought about it for weeks!) All you need is a simple lamp (if you were clever, you’d buy a few when they’re dramatically reduced and stash them in the cupboard) … some yo-yos [...]
Tweet We shopped and shopped and shopped … and then whilst Julian dived back into the last minute Christmas mayhem – for the items I forgot to add to the list – I cooked. For hours. I love cooking for Christmas :-) the mood was chilled and cheerful … the mince, fruity … the rum [...]
Tweet the humble handmade pillowcase you only need 1.6 metres of lovely, standard width fabric to make a pair – particularly fine if it is from the sale section of the patchwork store :-) the opportunities for trim are endless – pillowcases for everyone! they are SO super quick to make – less than an [...]
Tweet A Christmas Pudding … stitched in wool 1. cut your pieces out of precious Diane wool and natural coloured osnaberg. 2. back the osnaberg with some pellon and do some nice wibbly machine quilting – taking care at the edges … there’s not a lot of structural integrity happening here! 3. pin your woollen [...]
Tweet Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat; please put a penny … … in the old man’s hat! if you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do. if you haven’t got a ha’penny then God bless you! p.s. do you think they’ll let us get away with another one next year? p.p.s [...]
Tweet what you need for the perfect day at the perfect beach … :: your best friend :: :: your surfboard, thongs and hat :: :: some stripey zinc :: :: the red and yellow flag calling “swim here! swim here!” :: :: plenty of sand for digging :: :: Carol Ann’s picnic feast :: [...]
Tweet It’s official – I am the needlepoint numpty. This state of numpti-ness is so exasperating I have compiled a set of simple guidelines so that you all may avoid having this hat plonked on your head and finding yourself standing in the corner for needlepoint numpties. 1. When you insist on changing the colour [...]
Tweet A wee bit of mass production at the sewing machine always makes me nervous that Christmas is indeed around the corner. There’s even a twinkling candle – albeit, a Mortein one. Surprisingly effective at keeping away the biting hordes that are besotted with my elbows and ankles. And I’m singing along to the Christmas [...]
Tweet Abigail’s birthday was pretty as a picture – and a lovely day to boot! [ party favours for the guests - we filled asian takeaway boxes with lollies, Abby provided the art work for the sides, and I found these dear little metal brooches of birds at a giftwrapping store - they looked straight [...]