Archive for the ‘embroidery’ Category
Tweet One week til Christmas! I so adore this time of year – a week ahead of us, full of making and singing and reading and cooking and preparing. Eeeee! The first sound that greeted me as I threw open the front door, letting in the sparkling blue summer morning – the young gas repair [...]
Tweet Do you remember my Waldorf inspired St. Lucia from a few years back? Thanks to the lovely Carrie over at Parenting Passageway and Pinterest it seems a lot of folk do :-) However – I didn’t ever get around to making a portrait of St. Lucia for myself. The original was part of a [...]
Tweet Don’t you think? Frankly, if a bag has no pockets, you may as well sling your belongings into an old pillow case and hoick that over your shoulder, ’cause that’s how useful a bag without pockets is. Plunging your hand down into the dark, cluttered depths, rummaging about in a completely ineffectual manner that [...]
Tweet :: four imagination tickling fat quarters … mmmm … :: divinely beautiful, hand cross stitched pieces of embroidery from the oppie :: along with a sweet doily demurely requesting that it be added to a tote as a name tag :: and a funny little mouli, also from the oppie, for cutting herbs [...]
Tweet “today we must do something very special, for it will be a glorious day!’ Snufkin. Doesn’t Snufkin have the loveliest approach to living :-) Oh we do so love the Moomins here at Bootville. We’ve been hanging out in Moominvalley since Abby was a little girl with first the novels, then the story cd [...]
Tweet ta-da! Oh my, this has been a loooooooong time coming :-) I began these wee cross stitches before Abby was born – more than 15 years ago! They are, of course, from the Prairie Schooler folk – my all time favourite cross stitch patterns. I so love their simplicity and timelessness. Mmmmmhmm! And these [...]
Tweet oh my! I remember the morning I started this needlepoint – Abby was a wee preschooler. I was working on a much more complicated needlepoint design from Mary Norden – her Persian Flowers – but wanted to start and finish a cushion really quickly. I wanted to have it sitting there, looking marvellous, the [...]
Tweet Rainy with breakthrough sun. So declared the weather man on Friday eve, and he was right! It has rained and rained and rained and rained. And then! All of a sudden, for the briefest 10 minutes, the sun bursts joyously through the gloom before being gobbled up by the next herd of clouds stampeding [...]
Tweet Ha! Our kitchen is different again! Now we have what I must consider the ultimate farmhouse kitchen table – an old, old wooden door (thrifted from the roadside, scrubbed hard) sitting atop a pair of lovely clean white trestles. :sigh: …. it’s just so fresh and lovely and simple. Chairs don’t quite go now, [...]
Tweet sometimes parenting is like that, isn’t it. today was certainly was of those days when I look at my daughter, listen to her words, and whilst I’m doing my best to remain a calm, supportive and loving mama, inside I’m chanting, “it is what it is … it is what it is … “ [...]
Tweet Isn’t this just the way of things. I’m finally free of study and essays and pracs and placements and what do I do? Tackle all the unfinished projects? Get stuck into something lovely and new and marvellous? Heck no! I’ve been dithering. Dithering with yarn. Dithering with thrifted wool and embroidery thread. Dithering with [...]
Tweet I’m a bit smitten. Yep, today saw the stitching of another wee dolly. I didn’t even make it past the kitchen table. Doesn’t she look like Audrey Hepburn in the Nun’s Story when Audrey had her wimple on but no veil! And those red french knots … didn’t like’em. They all came off minutes [...]