A couple of years ago (!) I wrote a post about receiving some things from overseas. I had a quick try at one of them around a year ago then put it aside again. Then earlier this year I saw an article in the local paper that caught my eye. It was about a lace-making […]
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This was the question my younger brother asked me earlier this year! He’d been on a bit of a hunt in shops such as Farmers and surprise, surprise, had not found any tea cosies! He was pretty suprised at that. I wasn’t though . . . more the type of thing some craft shops would
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A few months have passed since I last posted . . . busyness in my personal life meaning although the will to create blog posts was there the time and energy wasn’t! That’s life ? This post is about an Autumn Swap I was part of with other WSBN sewing folk. The idea was to
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My talented Aunty J has been part of the Thames Valley Embroiderer’s Guild for over 30 years and the Waihi Embroidery Group for nearly 50 years! That’s a lot of stitching 🙂 Over the years she has learned many types of handwork. When we were visiting in March Aunty J took me down to her room
Back in March I wrote a post about receiving some Tambour supplies from overseas. I’m one step closer with having found a local source for the herringbone twill tape. I rang Cordall, a local company here in New Zealand, who make all sorts of elastics and cords. I’ve bought various elastics from them over the
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A curious thing happened a while back . . . well, curious to me anyway! I lost all my jojo! My sewjo and my craftjo. I guess there’s a first time for everything as I don’t recall it happening before now. I’ve read of it happening to others but it’s very weird when it happens
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At the end of last year friends of mine had their first grandbaby born. C had been knitting squares for a baby blanket during the year and had asked me if I would be happy to stitch it together. Which I was. I thought she meant that I needed to sew all the squares together
Still catching up on posts from last year! I’ve had a busy couple of weeks which always means less time for posts 😐 Good to be busy though. Last year I made Jack the Kaka II and out of the small profit I earned I decided to treat myself to some things I’d wanted to get for
So, it has been a couple of weeks since I managed to find the time to write a blog post. This one is going to be a quick post! All the dance costume sewing got done and the concerts are over 😀 It’s always such a busy time. It’s always tricky when there are a
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One of the other crafts I enjoy doing is knitting. I used to do a lot when my children were little. Years ago I got a large cane basket and to make sure knitting needles didn’t fall out I lined the basket. I chose a pretty floral fabric I liked and hand stitched it to