Archive for the ‘sewing’ Category
Tweet Oh the sun. So nourishing. And I so needed it today. Monday, when popping on my spectacles, I realised that the right side of my nose was very sore. The kind of sore your nose feels after meeting a cricket ball. Not something I’ve experienced lately … cricket balls that is. There was no [...]
Tweet These are a pair of culottes. I made them last Saturday. Julian and Abby were out for the day. I had a lovely new pattern and two metres of beautiful, crisp drill. Exciting stuff for us sewists. Now, it’s been a while since I made anything for myself that needed to fit accurately. So [...]
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 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 if you would like to share your ~loveliness found~ moments from this week … & I would so love it if you did … please leave them in the comments or share a link to your place! ~ picnicking at a magical spot where rolling green hills meet the glittering blue sea underneath a [...]
Tweet make sure you get to the bottom of this week’s ~loveliness found~ post to check the winner of the May Gibbs giveaway! again, thank you all so much for entering and leaving such lovely comments – I only wish I could send all of you a pillowslip! p.s. & if you would like to [...]
Tweet Thank you so much, dear folk, for all the lovely words you shared in yesterday’s comments. I wish I could send every one of you some May Gibbs goodness & a lily-pillowslip :-) I am so inspired by your enthusiasm, I’ve added a few more details to the giveaway – your very own copy [...]
Tweet Oh my! I’m so thirsty … so thirsty. I don’t know if this is a consequence of the rich gravy Julian made for supper’s pork cutlets, or the fact that it’s still dreadfully hot at 10.30 at night after a dreadfully hot day. If you’d been peering into our dark garden, a few moments [...]
Tweet We have a special guest coming on Wednesday – an exchange student from Japan! Abby is SOOOOOOOO excited. The spare ‘oom is almost ready – just need to make up the bed and give the dressing table a dust. As for the rest of Bootville – the front porch needs a little tidy and [...]
Tweet Confession: today is the first time, in more than 30 years of machine sewing, that I worked out how to use the seam guide. Cool! This is without doubt, the most liberating gadget I have ever fastened to a sewing machine. I think my life is about to get even better. First up – [...]
Tweet Huh? She’s fifteen, when does she nap? In the morning of course :-) For hours and hours and hours. My eyes pop open and body stretches around 6am every morning. It’s truly an effort to stay in bed past 7am. Besides, I love the freshness of the new morning – the light, the soft [...]
Tweet Yesterday morn, before being completely won over with excitement at my drop waisted dress, I was actually cutting out a new sun frock for Abby. We found this darling apple fabric – 100% cotton lightweight drill – at Spotlight. I’ve not previously been a huge fan of Spotlight – the quality of their fabric [...]