christmas
:: Keep Calm and Carry On - Christmas Eve Part III ::
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008The 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 all know well,
3. unpicking takes longer [...]
:: keep calm and carry on - Christmas Eve Part II ::
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008the 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 would have some vintage [...]
:: keep calm and carry on ::
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008Christmas 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 and ribbon - these are [...]
cooking for christmas
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008We 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 balls, roly-poly …
the marshmallow, [...]
:: the perfect christmas present ::
Friday, December 19th, 2008the 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 hour.
I want to be [...]