christmas

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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, [...]

:: christmas is coming ::

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

Christmas is coming,

the geese are getting fat;

please put a penny …

… in the old man’s hat!

if you haven’t got a penny,

a ha’penny will do.

if you haven’t got a ha’penny

then God bless you!

p.s.  do you think they’ll let us get away with another one next year?
p.p.s still haven’t worked out why my portrait photos are coming [...]

rainbow tuesday

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

what you need for the perfect day at the perfect beach …

:: your best friend ::

:: your surfboard, thongs and hat ::

:: some stripey zinc ::

:: the red and yellow flag calling “swim here! swim here!” ::

:: plenty of sand for digging ::

:: Carol Ann’s picnic feast ::

:: watermelon - the perfect beach fruit ::

:: [...]

the needlepoint numpty

Monday, December 15th, 2008

It’s official - I am the needlepoint numpty.  This state of numpti-ness is so exasperating I have compiled a set of simple guidelines so that you all may avoid having this hat plonked on your head and finding yourself standing in the corner for needlepoint numpties.
1. When you insist on changing the colour - let [...]

it’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

A wee bit of mass production at the sewing machine always makes me nervous that Christmas is indeed around the corner.

There’s even a twinkling candle - albeit, a Mortein one.  Surprisingly effective at keeping away the biting hordes that are besotted with my elbows and ankles.  And I’m singing along to the Christmas cds - [...]

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