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:: a christmas pudding recipe ::

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

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 pieces to the osnaberg, [...]

another birthday treat …

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Months and months and months ago, I was playing around with making soft kokeshi dolls.  The first one was okay, the second one was a little bit strange, and the third one has been languishing in the cut out stage since February. 

Abigail, in lovely daughter style, thinks any stuffed toy I make is worthy of [...]

mary e’s christmas coins

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

This was going to be all about bunting - for Tine! - but you know how it goes.  I was hunting around in my drawers for a particular piece of old blue with holly maison noel and after a bit of cursing, not only found it, but found a Mary Engelbreit Christmas charm pack my [...]

tic tac toe - penny style!

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

Well this morning was a bit yuck here in the tumbledown house - not helped by the fact that we are moving in two weeks, so there’s a huge, HUGE amount of stuff to do - and none of it’s fun!  So I decided that rather than tackle the 10 feet long to-do list and [...]

baby bees and penny showers

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Just when you thought I had taken ENOUGH photos of the baby penny rugs, there’s more!   Sorry ;-) I just love the timid white wool and the gentle, pretty colours! The back of the quilts look like softly folding meringue …

And besides, I had to let you know, they were both ready to go, 4 [...]

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