Dream in colour, create in fabric, thread, yarn, words, whatever you have to hand
On Saturday it was my Mum’s birthday. My Mum used to be tailor but she prefers painting to sewing these days and she has always said that she likes my vintage caravan sewing machine cover but she doesn’t keep her machine on display so she wouldn’t have a use for one. She is not […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays 83 and thank you to everyone who visited last week :) I seem to in danger of starting a million Winter/Christmas yarn projects and never finishing any so this week I have tried to complete a couple of projects (and started some others that I’ll show when there is […]
Read More…Welcome to another Wool on Sundays :) I really have never known such a yellow September – long may it continue! This sunflower is over three metres tall. It was self seeded and grew by itself and it’s the tallest we’ve ever had. Her sisters, which I planted, seem dwarfed at a mere six […]
Read More…Welcome to another Wool on Sundays! I’ve decided to start a new year and the word for the year is JOYFUL! When I was away, last week, I didn’t want to be carting about a large blanket in progress so I just took some Drops Safran and a pair of needles with me and started knitting garter […]
Read More…I was recently commissioned to make a cushion for a couple who are getting married at the end of August. The only information I had available was that they are both very musical and one of them works for the red cross. So I decided to make a + quilt/cushion keeping to a black/white/red palette […]
Read More…It seems like a long time since I’ve linked up Friday sewing finishes but this week I have finishes. I’ve come to end of my biggest ever sewing project – something that has taken me about half a year but that I have not yet blogged much about. In the Spring, Demetria from RJR Fabrics, […]
Read More…Welcome to Wool on Sundays again! June was such a dire month that I starting to think I’d never manage another Wool on Sundays post. It began with a day at the side of the motorway, when Mr RH filled our diesel car with petrol… And ended with me dropping a cup of […]
Read More…Have you linked up any new things you’ve tried this month with Fiona? My most exciting ‘New to Me’ in May was having my Caravan Pattern featured on the News page of the June Edition of Cross Stitcher Magazine. I was amazed when Katie Allen sent me an etsy convo asking to include it and, […]
Read More…A couple of weeks ago when I bought the Merchant & Mills (paper) Dress Shirt pattern and I was a bit worried it may end up looking like a tent… Well I eventually got around to sewing it together. I used the paper multi-size pattern and it was quite a quick and straightforward make. My […]
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