Progress on Butterfly #2

Apologies for the awful photo – I finished sewing all the bits together quite late tonight, so I had the choice of either a washed-out photo using a flash, or a yellowish photo using just the light in the room. Neither came out great, but I’ve colour-corrected it as best I can. I’ll try and…

Music from the past

he International Film Festival is on at the moment, so I went last night to see one of the films on offer, Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets, a documentary about Pulp’s last concert, in their home town of Sheffield. As well as being a great documentary (made by a NZ film-maker – it…

Bring a plate

‘m going to two different events over the next few days to which I’ve been asked to bring a plate.  No, we’re not suffering from some sort of national crockery shortage – “Bring a plate” is a lovely little New Zealand English phrase meaning bring some food to contribute to a shared meal (usually afternoon…

Butterfly complete

hat took a lot longer than expected (probably something to do with the number of unpickings and resewings I ended up doing, and not at all helped by changing my mind at the last minute about how I’d done the body of the butterfly (I’d originally used a lighter shade of grey to contrast with…

Butterfly report

o it turns out that (as I kind of knew it would be) the pattern I designed is horribly complicated to sew.  Lots of tiny fiddly bits, and sections that need to be lined up (read: sewn and unpicked because it’s wrong and resewn and unpicked again…), with the added challenge that because it’s a…

It was inevitable

ou guys know me.  You know what happens when a craft catches my attention: I spend some time learning the basic skills, maybe go to an introductory class, do a bit of internet research… and then jump straight into the most complex high-difficulty project imaginable, and try and work out how to do it from…

Even more random than usual

pring is still a month or two away, but it was making its eventual presence known today with blue skies and a lovely warm nor’wester (this is the only time of year when anyone in Christchurch would ever describe a nor’wester as “lovely”!!).  It was rumoured to have reached 20 degrees mid-afternoon – we certainly…

Project report

fter spending most of the morning cutting scraps of material into strips, and most of the afternoon sewing them back together again (who ever said quilting was a logical sort of hobby…), I’ve managed to complete a whole six blocks of my quilt.  Good thing I’m not working to a deadline this time! Pretty pictures…

It's very pink

As predicted, life for me at the moment is pretty much work, study, cook and clean just enough to keep myself alive, sleep, and repeat. But it’s worth it – I’m loving the course, and if I can get myself a wee bit ahead on the study now, it means I can take a couple…