Another progress report
The dragon has a head!
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As predicted, I spent most of yesterday mucking around in Mum’s craft room – she has so many fun toys to play with! My plan originally was just to make a few little simple gift tags (because we’re having our Christmas tonight, with Brother and family, now that they’re back from Middlemarch, and I’d forgotten…
A dump of random (mostly crafty) photos (fixed now!)
After such a long time without blogging, I seem to have forgotten how to just sit down and start writing. So to ease myself back in gently, a photo-heavy post (which of course takes much more work than just typing stuff, so I’m not sure why I think this is easier…) Anyway, this is going…
So far
Because I couldn’t quite make up my mind what fabrics to use for the next bird, this afternoon I laid out all the ones I’ve done so far, hoping seeing the overall effect would help me decide. It’s the first time I’ve actually looked at them all together, and they look pretty impressive: They also…
Quilt pic
As promised, a picture of the quilt top I sewed for my supervisor’s baby while I was on sick leave: It’s an “eye spy” quilt – each of the squares is a fabric with different pictures on it (or letters or numbers, in some), so when the child gets older it becomes an eye spy…
This could be dangerous
enny is a serious knitter. She knits vastly complicated patterns that actually turn into wearable clothing, using the sorts of fancy expensive wool that you have to be pretty confident about your ability to spend that much money on. And she’s been trying to tempt me for ages to pick up some needles – a…
Not all my own work
When I was down in Alexandra the other day, mum gave me an old piece of appliqué she’s had for ages, and asked it I could quilt it and turn it into a cushion cover for her. So that’s what I spent yesterday afternoon doing (in between writing that ridiculously long blog post). Stupidly, I…