Archive for the ‘embroidery’ Category
TweetIt was my dear Aunty Anne’s 60th birthday party on Saturday night – a good 5 weeks after her actual birthday – and true to form, I left her birthday present to the last minute – well, 480 minutes actually! I knew I wanted to make her an appliqued and embroidered cushion but I just [...]
Tweet I’ve been stitching away since Thursday on this little quilt – obviously without a lot of consistency because I’ve not got very far. But I’ve added the red border, finished all the embroidery and started the quilting. Oh my goodness – now you’ll be able to recognise us in the street! :-) Check out [...]
TweetA bit of shopping had to be done this morning so off I set to Toowong – certainly not my local shopping centre but a very fine place – lovely old fashioned butcher with lots of free range meats, a great fruit and veg that’s been owned by the same Italian family since it opened [...]
TweetWell, the poppies are humming along nicely, the day is sunny and warm, and I think I’d like to work on something light-hearted today. The impetuous toddler in me clapped her hands and said, “Goodie! Let’s play – I mean sew – something new!” The responsible mother, who made her daughter go to school despite [...]
Tweet There’s something magical about a Sunday night – you take a little bit of silk, add some oddly shaped bits of wool, and then draw, draw, draw with your needle and thread. Such bliss! omg now it’s midnight! And I can no longer make out the lazy daisies. Time for bed. But I’ll be [...]
TweetThis weekend has been good but now it’s over – bummer! Julian and Little A spent Saturday sailing the Bay whilst I pieced some of the new fabric that arrived on Thursday last from the FatQuarter Shop. This is a wee bit of what I’ve been fiddling with – and fiddling is the important word [...]
Tweet Aside from some serious procrastination – at least I’m showered AND dressed – I have spent part of the morning turning my hand to the Crayon Box Block – from my favouritest patchwork book of course – “Once More Around the Block”. Now I did have new fabric for this in the shopping cart [...]
