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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 baby clothes. The blue … Continue reading
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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 didn’t … Continue reading
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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 the last two buttons and theoretically it … Continue reading
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… Only just to say that I’m a lot … Continue reading
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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 choice 🙂 Stupidly, I left home without any sewing … Continue reading
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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 bow tying 🙂 This dress is just about … Continue reading
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 hexagon papers. After a while a little worry popped … Continue reading
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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 blogging from my phone so no … Continue reading
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Musing
Time to capture some random thoughts! 1) today I used some freshly harvested kale from the garden, the plant doesn’t look fabulous with it’s moth holes and general neglect. But some of the nicer leaves went very well finely chopped … Continue reading
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