A personal archive · 2005 — 2014

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Journal · page 45

More notes, discoveries and moments from the journal.

12 entries

Straight and Narrow Challenge Quilt

Ahem. This is the quilt for QuiltArt Straight and Narrow Challenge. I’m on a high from the glue spray I used => why don’t I ever follow advice? Don’t breathe this stuff friends of…

Sunday at the Beach

A big day of fishing and sailing in Inverloch Around 4pm the beach was inundated with fishermen. Riscy told me that he saw a rat and it ran up one of these trees. I hate rodents!…

Sunday Pastels

All the skeins so far from my dyed fleece. I’ve decided against knitting this into a vest… the wool is too crispy feeling. I think I crochet it into granny rug squares with some…

Two Posts in One Day

In the spirit of me returning to my sewing room I present a finished quilt, I was so keen to have this finished, I sewed the binding by machine instead of by hand. Hand would have…

Photoshop Fun

Computer innards look pretty fascinating to me. I was admiring an old graphics card today, I love the minature roads and houses and decided to take a photo or two. Graphics Card I…

In the Mail

I received this postcard in the mail today from my sister Meg. Chicken Pox by MegLeg Meg is a painter. I think she’s having trouble doing art consistently as a young mother of an…

Too busy for Creating

Well this sucks! Last night was the first time in ages that I haven’t created anything. We had our last game of touch footy in the round robin season, we had to win to make it to…

The Knitting Bag is FINISHED!

Bev’s Knitting Bag I’ll be sad to give this one away, but I’m sure Bev will get plenty of use out of it 🙂 We attended the Victorian Chilli Festival in Jindivick today. The…

A Bit of Everything

Tonight I did a bit of everything: Cooking – I made vietnamese noodle soup called pho. This was my favourite food when I lived in Vietnam in 1996. Reading – I got another lot of…

More knitting and spinning

I’ve got to finish the bag I started on Sunday so I can stop feeling guilty for spinning wool instead LOL. Check out today’s accomplishment This is the first skein of yarn I have…

Spinning Corner

I spashed out and brought some fancy storage boxes from Freedom Funiture for my spinning supplies, wool etc. I have also found that they are good ‘tables for my flick carder,…

Knitting Bag

Late last afternoon I started this bag, which I had planned to give to Bev today. I’m pleased with the way it’s turning out, but I don’t think I have time to finish it 🙁 This is…