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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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