Archive for the ‘quilts’ Category
Tweet :: A simple recipe for a warm winter’s eve :: light the lamps pull on your fleecy slippers and a cosy flannel skirt snuggle a soft knitted shawl round your shoulders share steaming cups of tea & whilst brewing tea, make hot water bottles add a wee glass of muscat – warms the throat [...]
Tweet I am pleased to report that the May Gibbs/Blue Cross Quilt – known in Bootville as the Squishy Baby Bums Quilt – is finished and there was no further loss of fabric. In fact, the final stage went smoothly and quickly and all were satisfied with the outcome :-) Very satisfied. Thank goodness [...]
Tweet Remember the May Gibbs fabric? I made pillowcases and laundry bags, fat quarters and goodies were posted to a lovely reader, and I even tried putting together a block that by the end of the evening I hated. Then the moomin quilt didn’t fit the blue and cream checked vintage blanket – entirely my [...]
Tweet Life in Bootville is by no means perfect. Like most folk, and as I’ve sometimes shared, we struggle in many ways. Some days – some circumstances – are certainly harder than others. There are many things we have not yet achieved – home ownership being a glaring one of these. Some long held hopes [...]
Tweet Yeah, yeah. You’re sick of hearing about the chessboard. And I didn’t live up to my promises last week. I know. The week kind of wobbled off course. These things happen. But today! New week. New to do list. Board FINISHED. Family playing. Good stuff! It only took an hour to move the board [...]
Tweet goodness me! Sometimes these days just hurry by, don’t they. Here we are and it’s Tuesday night already. Mum has been and gone – she’s in Brisbane now, visiting with old Nanny and Grandad who are relishing every moment of having their eldest child at their beck and call :-) Lucy is having her [...]
Tweet You might have noticed, here at Bootville, that we’re rather fond of seagulls. When I look through my photos here, and Julian’s photos that scroll through our tellie, lots and lots of seagulls pop up. So when I found some darling seagull fabric last December, I just had to have some. Seagulls on a [...]
Tweet if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ a basket filled with beautiful but under-appreciated yarn, bought many years ago, now being knitted into something warming & special for someone very loved ~ ~ dragged [...]
Tweet There have been so many photos taken of these four inch squares of floral. Each time I work with them, the richness of the colours and many different patterns so delight me I cannot stop at just one photo. Mum and I bought the fabrics with our Christmas money from Old Nanny days after [...]
Tweet The first stitching project I sat down to upon our return from our Christmas beach holiday earlier this year, was a quilted mat for the kitchen floor. I have a silly pet hate – getting wet feet whilst I wash up. I manage this effortlessly, regularly sloshing the water from the sink onto the [...]
Tweet Well … this afternoon, Julian, Abby and Sacha headed out to the airport. I was left standing in the kitchen wondering what to do. Research for next week’s essay or studying for tomorrow’s philosophy quiz were completely out of the question. Vacuuming … could be very valuable given the amount of Fu fluff that [...]
Tweet Winston had his black dog. I have my red queen. Melodramatic I know. But Kim, you hit the nail on the head yesterday when you commented on hormones. Part of me truly hates to say this … I feel as if I am playing into every patronising, patriarchal notion of the hysteria of women [...]