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Today I have an unexpected slice of time to myself and I am under the weather. How weird to spend and morning dozing in bed! Anyway I’m up now, with only a short time until…

Fossil Hunting

In a brief moment between winter ailments (cough cough, sniff sniff) this weekend we went on a bushwalk / fossil hunt / mushroom spotting adventure. I regularly walk this track on…

Little Knitting

Hand dyed (by me) sock in progress.

In Context

Photo by Valeri Pain The rug was completed in time for the submission cut off for the Handweavers, Spinners and Dyer’s Guild of Tasmania exhibition at Design Tasmania in…

Getting going

I have been ignoring my loom – the rug was growing too slowly so I stopped weaving on it. Not exactly logical! A decision to enter it into the guild exhibition and the realisation…

A Rag Rug

I have finished the rag rug 😀 Starting Notes I had planned to make a taupe and white rug but I wasn’t happy with the way the taupe fabric frayed, even when cut with a rotary…

Persistence and Potential

Some time in the middle of 2013, probably about the time of my last post, Ada suddenly stopped having a day time nap. The effect on me being the lack of space to think and read…

As Planned - Some Spinning

I have been glued to my spinning wheel this week and the grey fleece (my major project) is nearing the end. The little sample of white merino is finished, it was difficult to spin…

I'll Be Spinning

I watch the Tour de France every year (even though this doping stuff pisses me off and tests my patience) and this year I’ll also be participating in the Tour de FLEECE at the…

Grapevine Tea Towels

Some ‘finished’ photos: I used a draft called 8 Thread Herringbone from A Handweaver’s Pattern Book by Marguerite P. Davison. I used this draft on the little twill tape I made a…

Done!

Phew! I am sooooo glad that I’ve finished this warp, the problems at the start made it feel like the project was dragging on a little but too long. The problems I was having did…

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

I want to mark here, the death of my cat Lucy at 16 years of age. I was still at university when I went to the South Hobart Cats Home with my flatmates to pick out a kitten. I…

Screaming Weaving

This was intended to be a quick little towel warp and I wanted to focus on fun stuff like treadle tie ups and adjustments. But with this loom, with this warp, with this project; I…

Threading

Weaving Big

This has happened in my life since I last posted: It is a Glimakra Standard Counterbalance loom with 120cm weaving width, 8 shafts and 10 treadles (actually 9 treadles because as…

A Really Big Pillow

This was meant to be a stash busting project; busting all my stash of 8ply knitting wool that I probably wont knit. The problem was: Most of my stash was used up in the warp which…

A quick scarf

The yarn was chosen by Jasper and given to me for my birthday. I wove it into a scarf and gave it back to Jasper 😀 Self striping sock yarn looks great in a weave!

This Tomato Life

Twill Tape

Spin and Weave

I bought a beautiful grey sheeps fleece – oh how I love to sniff wool – its my kind of heaven. I washed, carded and spun. Then I wove. This is a huck draft. And the red was a…

I'm a Weaver!

I’m not sure why I haven’t posted about it here before… but. I’m now a weaver. And I love it!

Ada and Bebe

My Work table

For Ada

Behold! Pickles.

North Indian Lime Pickles When I happened across a bag of limes at a local grocer for only a few bucks I knew exactly what I was going to do with them as I had just been reading…

Return of the Knitting

My fingers have been itchy for knitting lately and I have some finished items to show for it! First up, I finally completed Ada’s little Kimono Jacket – the one I started a few…

Chickpea Chatter

I had some dramas this week on the chickpea front. I decided to cook some from scratch rather than using tinned chickpeas. The recipe I was using said to soak the dried chickpeas…

Some Green

The garden has been growing brilliantly since my sister came to visit and to give me a hand in getting the vege patch going. This is a view showing the bed that runs along the…

Peasant dresses for Ada

Simple to make/comfy to wear. I bought this soft double gauze from Linnet in Japan. I have made three since I set up my new sewing room last week and I’ll be making many, many…

Ada

She is six months old today – in this photo she’s chasing bits of banana around on her high chair tray We have moved and are very happy in our new place – we now have space to…

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…

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!

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…

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…

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…

The Birth Story

Warning: this post describes a birth and contains some information which some may find too intimate or just too much. That’s ok, I won’t be offended if you just skip it 🙂

Lines

I’ve been printing 🙂 I thought I’d show you my low tech set up. I use an old piece of glass from a cheap picture frame to mix the acrylic paint and roller it onto my little…

Lino Lizard

More Printing

Come up and see my ...

Etchings. I did a printmaking workshop with Jenny Peterson today at her studio in Boolarra. She has a lovely house and studio slightly out of town. I was her only student today,…

Printing

The big printing weekend is finished and here are some of my results, click on the photo if you want to see a bigger view: These were photograped as the ink isn’t dry enough to…