Category craftings
Embracing California living!
We’ve been really starting to settle in now. We drove out to Santa Cruz on Saturday and spent some time watching the surfing, and looking around the surfing museum. Obligatory Wayfarers on pose by the Ocean: But of course I couldn’t visit Santa Cruz without a visit to Hart Fabrics, so picked up a few […]
Cake Red Velvet Mini Clutch
It seems most of my time these days is spent sorting and tidying and running errands and thinking up ways to use up all the random items of food in my kitchen cupboards. Tinned pears and lemon jelly anyone? (FYI, totally delicious) I have been trying to relax a little though, and doing a little […]
My Intelligent Owl Bookmark….. Oh and yeah…. We have some big news!
Over the past few months, I have occasionally alluded to being a little more stressed out than usual… The proportion of crafting, and in particular cross stitch, has increased to compensate as I do love a bit of therapeutic stitching! One of the crafty things I’ve been up to is this little guy from CrossStitcher Magazine […]
Where I get all fancy….
So, you may remember that almost 2 months back I was in London for my birthday, and I got some fancy fabric from Liberty to make a nice Lonsdale dress with. It is Liberty Tana Lawn fabric, Marco C variation. Marco was originally a scarf design from 1970 that was recreated using a pattern of tiny […]
Parrot-y Bookmark
Man! What a week! I’m glad it’s over. Or…. pretty much over, once I go to work tomorrow morning. But…. this week hasn’t been all doom and gloom and stress! I made some really super tasty cake, then have also been working on a little secret something….. (my nice new pattern weights coming in handy there!) […]
Pattern weights from DIY washers.
Since I bought my big cutting mat and rotary cutter, I have been using it more and more for cutting out fabric pattern pieces, as it’s so quick to do. Pins tend to distort the fabric, so when cutting out it can be less accurate. Often therefore, I grab random objects from around the room, […]
Where I remade my top….
Today, I could have gone out to the Harbour Festival. I could have been energetic and done something productive outside. But I was tired and not really feeling it. FYI, it also chucked it down with crazy torrential rain in little out of the blue showers later on, so perhaps I was as well to […]
Sewaholic Lonsdale: My Bicycle Dress
On my birthday, a few weeks ago, I bought some fancy schmancy fabric from Liberty. My intention was to make a dress using Sewaholic’s Lonsdale pattern, but before I cut into the most expensive fabric I have ever bought, I thought I should do it properly and make a practice dress first so I could […]
Five Years.
This year Mr M and I celebrate our fifth wedding anniversary. Time flies when you’re having fun it seems, and for year 5 the theme of gifts is Wood. *insert inappropriate joke here* A while back I saw a pin on pinterest for a sign made out of an old pallet (you can find plenty […]
Sorbetto Variation: Crossover Back
Man it has been toasty warm of late here in good old Blighty! It’s almost like it’s what is that time of year called again? Oh yes… Summer. Which has of course been somewhat unpredictable, rainy, and generally not all that summery for the last few years. Ick. Now it has returned, or at least […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 