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snow blossoms …

Friday, February 20th, 2009

… what wishful thinking, as I stand here melting in Brisbane’s dripping February heat!  Oh but these beautiful, honey yellows have me swooning …

And snow blossoms they are!  It’s a wall hanging - for above our bed.  Julian wants a fresh room full of light and serenity which sounds good to me, so we are [...]

:: 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, [...]

the birthday setting

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Abigail’s birthday was pretty as a picture - and a lovely day to boot!

[ party favours for the guests - we filled asian takeaway boxes with lollies, Abby provided the art work for the sides, and I found these dear little metal brooches of birds at a giftwrapping store - they looked straight from the [...]

another birthday treat …

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

Months and months and months ago, I was playing around with making soft kokeshi dolls.  The first one was okay, the second one was a little bit strange, and the third one has been languishing in the cut out stage since February. 

Abigail, in lovely daughter style, thinks any stuffed toy I make is worthy of [...]

In a Spring Garden - the teapot trivet

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Nope, there’s still no spring around here today!  In fact, I’m wearing a cardigan - this is utterly unheard of for Brisbane in November.  Never mind, there’s plenty of pretty florals to find solace in.
This morning I was going to finish this …

But I became carried away with sewing wee white triangles to wee green [...]

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