2011

Playing with Fate

I tempted fate and I WON! As mentioned in my previous post I planted tomatoes and I’m pleased to announce that we will not be around to harvest them since we have FINALLY BOUGHT A…

Learning to Love Legumes

I’m not a fan of chickpeas, lentils split peas and their ilk. I’ll admit that right up front. I’d like to love them and have jars of dried legumes cluttering up my kitchen;…

Ada my Ada

Sometimes when I look at Ada it’s like I’m looking at myself and I get a bit startled by it. Which is funny since when Jasper was little I’d often see my sister, Meg, in his face…

Jasper and Ada

Busy days!

Knitting a little something

Chris goes back to work tomorrow so I’m taking the opportunity to try and finish this little jacket… Only the sleeves and closures are left to do 🙂 I’m following a pattern (!)…

Arrival

Ada Jean Jennings was born on 15 September 2011 at Calvary Hospital, Hobart. She weighs 3.35kg, is 51cm long and has a full head of black hair!

Sewing with Knit Fabrics

My fear of sewing with knit fabrics is now a distant memory since I started sewing up maternity clothes and now a wardrobe of little baby outfits. I’m still a bit untidy with the…

Blankets Galore

I think there’s a switch that triggers in your brain when you find out you are pregnant. This switch turns on a powerful urge to collect together WARM THINGS. And being pregnant…

Little Dresses

So, the (not so) secret is out 🙂 We’re having a girl! Which is the most ACE thing that could happen for a mum who loves to sew I reckon. To conjure this pattern I used the bodice…

Bubba pants

I’m so slack with this blog, but I have been sewing and making for the baby and enjoying it very much. So beware; you are just about to be bombarded with a series of posts about…

Jasper time

Bootees

Back when Jasper was little I bought a pattern for baby bootees. I made up the largest size and they were still way to small for him … I put it down to him being a big boy and…

Black cardigan

Today I’m determined to finish making this cardigan, I’ve adapted a maternity t-shirt pattern from Burda and it seems to be working out pretty well. So I need to sew on snaps and…

Small

Lately, I’ve been spending most of my creative time making maternity clothes – basic stuff to get me through a maternity winter and not worth of getting a blog post together for……

Holiday!

We’re enjoying a break in sunny Queensland. There is snow on the mountain at home which means it’s cold, cold, cold! So we are congratulating ourselves on on an excellent holiday…

Pretty

From Japanese pattern book: To pretty dress: A lovely cotton pique fabric from Spotlight with a grosgrain ribbon sash which is hand applied at the front and loose at the back for…

A Little Problem with Red

I had a brainwave to use up my tiny stash of silk fabrics to make a little hexagon bassinet quilt and almost immediately started tacking this gorgeous red dupioni over some…

X stitch

This is the cross stitch that I’ve been slaving over for a couple of weeks now. I found a link to the pattern on Needlework News an aggregator site for all things needlework (I’m…

Friday is sewing day

This is the first time I’ve been well enough to work in my sewing room since Christmas. It’s so nice to be back! Today I made a little lavender sachet and started compiling a…

Date Night

Chris and I loved Power Works at the Tasmanian Botanical Gardens last night. Now I want some sound and light installations in my own backyard!

Busy bee

Jasper and I have been away visiting friends and grandparents in northern Tasmania. Jasper got a ride in Poppy’s wood cart – how exciting for a ‘nearly’ two year old 🙂 I did a…

Phone posting

Let’s see how we go with the new technology 🙂 The phone isn’t so great for taking photos of small works especially since I’m used to a fancy DSLR, macro lens and photoshop. But…

Just a Few Things

Changing Rooms Chris has been working hard behind the scenes on this little blog (like writing code and stuff!) so that we can move it all over to a WordPress format. Yippeee!…

Growing

Well this is what I’ve been working on for the last few months: If you sort of squint your eyes you can see what might or might not be a baby’s head! This is the best scan photo…

Unseasonal Knitting

I haven’t been feeling very creative lately, except for the urge to knit Jasper a jumper… in the middle of summer… Crazy I know. I’m using Elizabeth Zimmerman’s percentage system…

Growing and Jamming

My garden has been disappointing lately. The tomato plants nearly all have yellowing leaves, wilting branches and dropped, unripe tomatoes. Also, the peas, broadbeans and spinach…

Summer Pudding Quilt

It’s been a LONG time in the making… but I’ve finally finished a quilt made with the red/reddish fabrics I collected over 6 years ago! I think I originally had a pineapple block…

Market Report

This was such a fun stall set up, and I was very pleased with how cohesive it all looked considering that Kate and I worked independently with just a ‘brights and linen’ as a…

Happy New Year!!

We’ve been having so much fun lately that sitting down to writing a blog post hasn’t been a big priority… which is a good thing I reckon 🙂 I hope you all had a great Christmas.…