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Sew Along Sewing
Daisy of LazyDaisyJones is hosting a lovely Sew Along project starting here using McCalls 3341 skirt pattern recently featured on the Great British Sewing Bee. Daisy herself has already made four of...
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Easter Eve
I don't normally have much time around Easter to go overboard with decorations but this wreath is pretty speedy and easy to rustle up at the last minute, so long as you have picked the twigs and dried...
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When Is A Coaster Not A Coaster?
When is a coaster not a coaster? ...... when it's an appliqué!Over the last year I've dabbled in several projects that use crochet motifs as appliqués. I'm not talking about crochet appliquéd onto...
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At The Foot Of The Rainbow....
... is a crock of yarn with the colours left over from an afternoon's sky-painting just waiting to be used.Just in case you didn't know! I love rainbow colours; either the authentic seven, in the right...
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May Days
This month has been very busy. Frenetically busy with work; busy with being a parental taxi-service and revision-support-unit at the start of H's GCSE exams. Busy most days to the point of being...
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June Moments
1. Watching the rain. This is my rose bush this morning seen through a curtain of pouring rain. Wet but still very beautiful.2. Walking in, and after, the rain. It's rained a lot in the last fortnight....
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Flowery Cooking and Hooking
This month is turning out to be rather flowery.Outside, there are flowers everywhere - including gorgeous, deep pink, wild roses like these in the hedgerowsand the more flamboyant stripy ones in the...
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A Strawberry Sonata
I don't know whether there's a collective noun for strawberry-themed things. I feel perhaps there should be. In the absence of any obvious, recognised term, I've called this little strawberry...
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Summer Stills
1 Sewing in the shade of an old apple treeI love sewing outside. It is one of life's great pleasures. Although one has to be careful not to lose the needle in the grass!The top is made from a French...
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In Which "The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse" Comes to Life Unexpectedly
Those of you familiar with Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Mrs Tittlemouse" will know the delightful watercolour illustrations of Mrs Tittlemouse, peeping beadily out of her front door, falling asleep,...
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Sommerzeit
This year's summer has been tricky to balance. H has been on holiday since his GCSE exams finished in mid-June. The rest of us, unfortunately, have not been on holiday for the last six weeks and...
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Post-holiday Kitchen Creativity
Returning to the domestic round after time away can feel a bit mixed. The old "What's for supper?" question, that miraculously sank without trace, while away from home, pops chirpily and irrepressibly...
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Mandala Mitts
Have you been bitten by the crochet mandala bug that's been going round this year? After resisting for ages because I kept thinking, "They're lovely, but what am I going to do with them?", eventually I...
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Confessions From My Larder
Opprobrious remarks have been forthcoming recently, about the state of my larder. Particularly when D has been trying to put away the contents of assorted shopping bags. An experience that has become...
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Preserving Moments
Summer has come to an abrupt end in the UK in these last few weeks. One moment it was warm and felt like high summer and the next, it just wasn't. The light has changed as well as the temperature -...
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"Making" Inspiration
In the supermarket the other day, while pondering the relative merits of what to make for supper, a copy of the September issue of "Making" magazine insinuated its way into my wire basket. I am not a...
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Leaves On My Lines
Autumn has arrived and just as every autumn, British trains get delayed or cancelled because there are "leaves on the line" I am finding myself getting behind with, (or on), stuff in various ways....
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Knit One, Purl One, Drop Three
As anyone reading here for a while will know, I am not really a knitter. That's not to say that I can't knit. I can - the basic stitches, casting on and off, etc but anything with a pattern beyond the...
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Life Stills
Firstly, thank you so very much for all your kind knitting encouragement comments on my last post - I haven't given up on the knit-sticks and, in fact, I've been picking them up more often than a...
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In Praise Of November
Do you know that slightly gloomy 19th C poem by Thomas Hood about November? It's one of those poems that I think I can remember quite well, but when I come to look it up, I find I haven't remembered it...
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