Life After Cake

Better finished than perfect! If anyone wondered what had become of me lately, I was probably at some stage of the cake making. I made a christmas cake (heavy fruit cake) so I could get ahead before going back to three days a week of grandma-ing. I got the decorations done in good time and […]

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Cake on Sundays

I have a new knitting underway and I thought I would post a ‘Wool on Sundays’ today but it’s 10.15pm now and the light is too bad for a photo so maybe next week… Instead I’ll show a little of what I have been doing. I agreed to make a christening cake assuming it would […]

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Peeks

It’s so long since I was here, I thought I’d just stop by to say hello! I do have some sewing at last as I have set aside the lighthouse to work on my Art quilt for the Endeavourers Reveal on August 1st. But I can only show some peeks for now…I can, however, tell […]

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Lighthouse in Progress (Part 1)

A very Merry Mid Summer (or Mid Winter) to you :) I feel I have been a long time away and there are many reasons for that. Probably the most interesting, has been the making of the lighthouse – not least that it has overtaken the Makery to to the point that it is next […]

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Everything Stops for Tea

The first very exciting thing that happened this week was that my younger daughter, who has been in New Zealand for a year, came home. Of course, that called for tea and cake! The second was that we hosted a Vintage Afternoon Tea Hen Party for my elder daughter and that, of course, called for […]

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Textural Peeks

Happy New Year! Without going into a great deal of dull information, the past couple of months have not been so amenable to making as I would have hoped, owing mainly to some major redecoration done at great speed to be ready for Christmas guests staying. And with the happy intermission of Christmas, so it […]

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  Currently, I’m a prisoner in the garden where I seem destined to live out the rest of my days and late into the evenings weeding and weeding and weeding….So much time to dream up exciting new sewing projects – and so little time to sew… I will be back when it rains! I hope […]

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BECOME AN ENDEAVOURER!

Edited to add: We are delighted to have had such an enthusiastic response but we’re sorry to have to say this group is now full. NEW ART QUILT GROUP – A CALL FOR MEMBERS! * * * * * * * Would you be interested in joining a new Art Quilt group? Sadly, the Four in Art […]

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