don’t get discouraged

hmmmm read my brand new fresh out of the oven Amanda Soule’s Handmade Home?or finish this tea party playsuit from Oliver & S?
Surely there is time for both…..(ha!).  I have used this pattern before, and i really enjoyed it, how can you not when it has instructions like “this seam can be a bit tricky.  [...]

repurposing

nearlyMabel comes home from visiting grannyMin with a plastic bag of dirty washing.  she’s 8 months, so the laundry is fair enough, but i thought i could do something about the plastic bag bit.  i fossicked through the stash, snipped a few inches off a pillowcase and sewed it into a drawstring, then turned down [...]

my creative space

my creative space is the dining room table, which might explain why my pic’s never show beautiful rooms like some of the other creative spaces.  
the little 60’s table works for me tho’ and today it’s home to vintage toy patterns for a bit of inspiration, an elephant being born, and some blimmen newlook 6815 pants  which i can’t get [...]

my creative space

i’m checking there are labels and tags on all my fancywork for the Birkenhead Artisan Market on saturday. i’ve just realised i’ve sold more smelly girl puppies than i thought since the last market and there is only two left, uh oh.  also, most of these bad habit rabbits seem to have the same bad habit (you [...]

i feel so dirty……

so i usually make my bad habit rabbits, stuff ‘em and then see what kind of face and scars or ciggies they might want.  embroidering them so that the tails of thread are hidden and there are no knots is satisfying, but perhaps not really ahh, efficient use of my time.  i noticed  Rachel had [...]

my creative space

going on holiday tomorrow to stay with sisters and aunties, so i’m whipping up some coasters as gifts for my hosts.  they have old and new fabric on the front and good old blanket on the back (with cotton batting in the middle) . they probably won’t make up for nearlyMabel waking up at 4am with sore teethygums, [...]