Journal archive
2010
From the journal archive.
44 entries
Garden
We don’t have much of a yard, but ‘down the back’ there was a weedy border that may have been a garden in the past. As soon as the first signs of spring appeared I started some…
Make!
Market preparations are coming together very nicely 🙂 Christmas ornaments: And little paper mache boxes decorated in a similar manner – I think they’ll look nice displayed on our…
Lots
I’ve been busy. A friend and I have booked a stall at ‘The Valley Market’ (Lenah Valley Community Hall, 28 November) Lots of making will be required! 5 zippered pouches are…
Swans
I’ve had a craft crammed week. On Wednesday I had a sewing playdate with a friend THEN I went on a wonderful craft camp on the weekend. A bunch of lovely women and two…
Satin
Satin Stitch is addictive :o) I’m on an embroidery kick at the moment. And I’m thinking of maybe making some things for sale.
Strategies
I’m trying to keep these little embroideries small so they can be completed in one night. This one got a little out of hand so I think it’ll be a ‘3 nighter’. Jasper has been…
Leftovers
I’ve been using up leftover bits of embroidery thread. And scraps of linen fabric.
My Creative Space - Hexagons
When I was little I thought all quilts involved patchwork hexagons. I was thinking of transforming this bit into a necklace, but I’m stumped about how I can stiffen it up to hang…
Labels And A Pouch to Keep Them In
Labels Done! I traced circles onto some old drawings of mine using the bottom of a pepper grinder as a template. The drawing side is on display and the pertinant info is recorded…
More Preserving!
Ok this might get a little boring for some… but I’ve been at it again: Six jars of Onion Jam and two jars of Pickled Beetroot! The onion jam tastes like sweet pickled onions…
Oven Mitts
No more burnt fingers! I love the fabric 🙂 Funny thing though; it’s been sitting in my stash for eons and I’ve never thought much of it. But yesterday it screamed “Use me, use…
And Piccalilli
This afternoon I made Piccalilli. The recipe say’s to wait a week before eating and a recipe online advised a month. I hope that the wait time will work some magic with the…
Mandarin Jam
Proof of my goddess-ness! 4.5 jars of Mandarin Jam and it’s yummy! (independently tested by Chris). Actually it’s more like a marmalade with skin included and a slightly bitter…
Playing at Domestic Goddess
Today I will attempt to make Mandarin Jam. Instead of spending years saving jars, I ended up buying around 60 new jars and lids. I have big plans for jam this year.
Cushions, rug and paint
I’m very proud of the zip backing I put on these cushion covers 🙂 The hooked rug is getting boring and I’m only 1/10th of the way thorugh. Options 1) use the colours in a…
A quick one
Clockwise from top left: Quick biscuits using this recipe– Very yummy! Jasper and Chris at swimming lessons Yoghurt with leatherwood honey – yum! A bit of cross stitch, I’m using…
Cozy Coffee Plunger
Inspired by one of my favourite blogs Tiny Happy. It was a situation where I saw her blog post and immediately started measuring my Bodum, riffling through fabrics, cutting and…
Unfinished
We’ve had a tough couple of weeks with all of us getting the dreaded gastro. One of the worst bits about this virus is seeing your loved ones be so sick – all the time knowing…
Our little backyard -
Winter in Hobart is glorious. Today it’s cold, but it’s also very sunny and clear. Perfect for walking around with a pram and a rugged up (sleeping) baby 🙂 Here’s a few piccies I…
A little meme
I’ve constructed a pleated and gathered pocket to attach to the front of my latest wrap-around skirt to groovy it up. Plain black denim = BORING. There’s only a tiny amount of…
A Seam
Hello! We have moved, my workroom is set up and today I sewed my first seam in for-ever. This lovely, soft, drapey knit with silk content has been turned into a multipurpose scarf…
See you Soon!
After a long think I have decided to continue blogging. Thanks to everyone for your feedback and encouragement :o) However, I will be taking a break of 2-3 months while we travel…
I have no restraint
I thought I’d better refresh my memory of crochet by making up a couple of granny squares. I used these fabulous video tutorials from Meet Me at Mikes to refresh my memory. The…
Travel Preparation - My Style
Crochet for the road! It’s decided. I browsed around the net looking at yarn options and not finding anything that gripped my crochet imagination. Then, eureka! I remembered that…
My Creative Space - Inspiration
Today I’m participating in My Creative Space. Which feels a bit fraudulent because I haven’t done anything creative since Sunday. Until today that is. Today I took my camera into…
Four (4!) Finished Garments
And now the sewing nest has been put away and the house has returned to some resemblance of neatness. What did I make? Well: Charcoal linen blend pants I mentioned in my previous…
The Sewing Nest
The dining room table has been appropriated for sewing this week. Rather than worrying about freezing to death in Hobart due to my wardrobe of only tropical appropriate clothes –…
Thinking
The lollies intensive didn’t get as intense as I would have liked. There has been just too much stuff going on to really concentrate on it. I’ve had the time, but not the…
The Epic Road Trip Home
A couple of weeks ago Chris and I decided that we would start looking for opportunites to move back ‘down south’ (as they say in the Northern Territory). Preferrably somewhere in…
Intensive No.1 -Lollies
I’ve been wanting to start an intensive project for ages, but couldn’t seem to settle on what I want to do! I was getting way too serious about the whole thing and hung up on the…
Jasper and the Jam
This one goes out to my lovely friend Tracey who sent us two jars of home grown, home made jam all the way from Canberra to Jabiru! Jasper reckons that Tracey’s apricot jam is…
Baby Pants Bonanza
In an attempt to maximise my sewing fun I’m making 6 pairs of baby pants at once! 1) Linen Chambray from Linnet this light weight linen has a lovely ‘shot’ weave with blue thread…
Chevrons
I did some more stitching this weekend. And Jasper spent some time outside while Chris tried to take photos of dragonflies. When they swarm it’s, apparently, a signal that the wet…
Hearts
Did you know that it was my birthday this week. I thought I was turning 34, but it turns out I was wrong. I’m 33. Bonus!!! It’s like finding a $10 note in your pocket :o) I’ve…
That Mildly Frustrated Feeling
I decorated another 4 postcards (the two remaining cards have manufacturing faults so I’m not going to bother with them). I scanned these instead of photographing them and they…
Pencil Over Watercolour
I’m proud that I said I’d get my pencils out and then I actually did it! First I taped off my ‘frames’ and layed down a watercolour base. Then I got busy with my pencils 🙂 This…
Now
Here we have Jasper watching Chris mow the lawn. When we got back from our holiday some parts of our lawn were nearly taller than us. Chris had to tackle it in parts over a number…
Holy Mother of Crap I've FINALLY Finished the Tea Towels!
This project seemed to go on for-ever. My technique for hemming is too slow… hand basting the fold line, finger pressing the hems and basting them by hand, then mitring the…
Dreamin'
I’ve been thinking a lot about patterns and shapes and I’m very happy to have found the textile designs of Mina Perhonen (via ah-yi). Lots of inspiration for my first ‘week-long…
We're Back!
We’ve been home for a week, but I’ve had trouble getting my act together to post. You know how it is after a holiday, it takes a little while to get back into ‘real life’. I…
Stencil
Instead of agonising over my swap tea towels any further… I decided to start! This may be the only one I do before I have to start packing for our holiday… but at least I now know…
Show us yer sketches
I’m attracted to the concept of committing to ‘doing something’ everyday for a whole year. You know, like taking a photo or drawing or painting or something. But I couldn’t decide…
Doodlebug
I love gridded paper! This notebook is fancier (black moleskine – la de da) than the ones I first used when I studied in Vietnam in the mid 90’s… I remember one of my exercise…