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Tweet You know the old debate – are certain people violent because they watch violent television, or do certain people watch violent television because they are violent. Well, I’m in a similar quandary. (“Oh dear!” you say,”I don’t think I want to know this about Lily!”) Am I utterly discontented with living in 21st century [...]
Tweet Plan: Finish borders on tumbler quilt Reality: 2 1/2 hour morning tea with a lovely friend followed by trek to fabric superstore. Outcome: 43 pairs of bamboo knitting needles for $2 (that’s right dear readers – 0.04 cents per pair), some soft lilac gingham for a eleanor style apron (sense and sensibility here I [...]
Tweet The tumblers are all sewn together, so today I called into the patchwork store near Nanny and Grandad and picked up a nice piece for the borders. I had planned on black or chocolate – but upon viewing, that was definitely a bring on the muffled drums moment. My goodness, it was very gloomy [...]
Tweet … a bear is nice … an ikea catalogue is very jolly … and flowers for Moomintroll to dance through are such bliss … but then, a curly, sneaky thought began to lurch about in my tummy … was tonight the first of the scrappy group patchwork classes? YES!!!!!!! And I had not [...]
Tweet Today, confident that Little A was safe, I pulled out the tumblers I cut out last week and proceeded to sew them up. You see, Carolann had sewed ALL hers up last week and she cut hers out after I cut out mine. Not on! I just had to catch up! But unlike sensible [...]
Tweet Oooooh! Mum and I did have one really satisfying afternoon at the sewing machine last week – but it didn’t involve any sewing. No, after trying to sew some birdhouses together (egads! don’t ask!) and finding that not only did my machine sound like a world war one machine gun, but it was no [...]
Tweet I have been incapable of settling on any one project since the climax of the school dramas – instead, when not busy with Little A, I have been pulling out bundle after bundle of fabrics and having a dabble at this, and a woffle at that. I bought metres and metres of white and [...]
Tweet Yoo-hoo! Is anyone still there? We’ve been having a topsy-turvy time – poor old Little A has had a terrible couple of weeks at school – the culmination of 2 1/2 years of bullying at the hands of vicious classsmates who have set standards of group behaviours, blinkered tastes and simplistic abilities that [...]
Tweet It was a slow trudge. I woke up with a headache – you know the kind that pulsates behind your eye – was late for the school drop off, slow to put down the laptop and get off the sofa, then Carolann came over so we chattered and chattered and chattered and I [...]
Tweet … and today, we watch in amazement as lily attempts to finish ANOTHER project! Out comes the Matroyshka doll house quilt – will she find her scraps for making the borders ’cause we all know she leaves them in the most unlikely places!? Ah, success! She has the scraps. Now she cuts, now she [...]
Tweet I do love making coasters … so quick – except when you make the hole for turning only big enough to fit your thumb in … and I get to quilt round and round – in a square fashion of course – gosh I just love quilting little things. I live in hope that [...]
Tweet (don’t look Sarah!) There’s lots of lovely “finished” adrenalin floating around tonight. After carrying this idea under my hat for the last couple of weeks – and dreaming about it all night! – I finally made the opportunity to sit down, work out the measurements, write down the instructions and get stuck into lots [...]