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Tweet I’ve read some real humdingers lately … books that have kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning, have made me roll around the bed laughing until tears roll down my face, have seen my eyes pop out in amazement, left me sitting at the breakfast table until well past when we [...]
Tweet My extra simple, sweetwater quilt was indeed finished off with the contrasting binding slip stitched into place last Friday eve. Bliss! I’m so pleased with the tying. You can sort of see here how I made simple crosses before tying the thread off – double cross stitches and three layered knots. I’m especially pleased [...]
Tweet Like so many other patchworky types out there, I have many, many unfinished quilt tops. We’re talking filled packing crates. And that doesn’t include all those quilt tops that don’t even have the patchwork quite finished. Every now and then, I plough through one such packing crate and find myself moved to utter many [...]
Tweet Whilst on holidays, I bought these gorgeous earrings. We found them in a very appealing shop in the little fishing village of Bermagui. Straight away, they made me think of Frida Kahlo – an artist whose story, art and style I have adored since my first university sojourn. I don’t much wear earrings and [...]
Tweet … Julian called to me “come sit by me whilst I cook” so with needlework in hand, I did. … our dinner sizzled our daughter waited our table was set … even the battered and weathered looked oh so pretty in the long, gold tipped shadows, on a hot summer’s eve.
Tweet Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts on gratitude last week. Such moving and thoughtful words – I feel not only encouraged to count my blessings, but to remember that we all approach the world with such unique eyes and hearts. Well … not really :-) Just *being* on the footpath is not [...]
Tweet I’ve just sat on my front porch for the morning – sun tinkling in through the roses, a nice cool breeze keeping the temperature just right. I had a bag full of wool by my side. A freshly made beetroot, carrot, orange and ginger juice in my glass. A sweet little dog for company. [...]
Tweet It’s quite extraordinary, but since our kitchen table moved five inches west (this very small re-arrange kicked off the great floor scrub), it has been transformed from a “rather-in-the-way-but-we-tolerate-it-because-we-want-to-eat-in-the-kitchen-and-one-day-when-we-have-our-dream-kitchen-it-will-be-marvellous” table to a “oh-my-this-is-indeed-the-best-spot-in-the-house-to-be” table. Just five inches! That’s all it took to bring about such a delightful change in how we use our kitchen. [...]
Tweet The hanks of seaweed from Thursday’s bathtub dried into a fibre that looked amazingly like wool. On to the swift they went! Then the wool winder … and to the scales – 148 grams of lily spun merino. Without any real idea of how far this yarn would go, needles (5.5mm) and pattern (started [...]
Tweet Ha! A finish – and an outing for the finished piece! Always such a good feeling :-) I started this cardie back in December with mum – she’s making one in the same colours but hers is icy blue with red, cream and brown details. It’s from the Autumn 2012 edition of Interweave’s Crochet [...]
Tweet As corny as it sounds, I found myself exclaiming to Julian – upon his arrival home from work to find a Romney/Corriedale fleece spread out across the kitchen table and no sign of supper – how lucky we are as humans that the planet provided us with these extraordinarily wonderful animals and that we [...]