What to do, what to do? You need your lucky dress. You take it out of the cupboard knowing that, the last time that you looked at it, it had a small nibble by the back split. Something irritating but not too obvious. Gah! It didn’t miraculously heal itself whilst hanging in the wardrobe unworn… Continue reading Help! Moths* ate my lucky dress.
Oonaballoona from Kalkatroona: A sewing star of celestial proportion. One of those folks who are able to radiate warmth and energy using just thought and text and screen. The link that laid me at the feet of O from K was The Sewcialists who have declared July 2014 as Oonapalooza Time. Here’s their First Roundup. Cool hey?… Continue reading One link leading to another and discovering…
Fruit?! I know, I know, you just want to see the sewing but I wish to draw an analogy and so I beg a minute of your time kind ladies and sirs. You see, it occurred to me as we munched our way through possibly the last bowl of home-grown, organic, free-range, cruelty-free strawberries that… Continue reading Sport and strawberries – effort and reward
Many is the hour that I have happliy wiled away browsing through the baskets and boxes that line the back wall of my favourite local charity shop, for the back wall doubles as an impromptu haberdashery. Picture me if you will, balanced unsteadily with one leg either side of an overflowing bag of second hand bed-linen… Continue reading Finding beauty in the discarded.
Did you know that here in the UK it’s National Sport Week? I only know because there have been events at both of the children’s schools, one of which the eldest-and-newly-a-teenager gave us permission to attend. “Permission!” I hear you snort. I know, sigh, but it’s an improvement on last year. Last year I didn’t even get to find out… Continue reading Spectator Sport
Are you taking part in part in Karen’s Sporty Summer Sewathon? Say you are! They’re always bags of fun! I’m taking part and I have been musing muchly on what my particular makes might be. My first thought was culottes, something that had been on ‘the list’ (you know, The List. The constantly evolving inventory of… Continue reading What to make for a Sporty Summer Sewathon? A participant/spectator dichotomy.
Cute wildlife picture. Stories of three words. Give it a chance, it’s a learning tool I picked up, although now I come to think about it, it was in fact six word stories. Maybe I’ll call them three word statements. During Me-Made-Made-14 I wore: School run stuff. It’s all dreadfully practical. It has to withstand bicycle maintenance,… Continue reading Three word stories for my third Me-Made-May
I’m not talking about the fabulous firsts. The first time someone thanked you for your hand-crafted gift and meant it. The first time you received an unsolicited and believable compliment: “I love your …insert description of garment!” “Did you get it from …insert name of favourite high street brand?”* I’m talking about the more meagre milestones, the… Continue reading The lesser-known landmarks of a sewing journey.
Oh, me oh my, it’s been a testing week and I mean that in the literal sense of the word that it has been a week that has contained very many tests. Thank you (absolutely and resoundingly NOT) to whomsoever devised the mandatory testing of ten year olds. There have been tears, there have been troubled nights, there were tonsils the size of… Continue reading I’m a little bit testy and a little bit floral.
Which with all due respect to Donny and Marie is both Country and Rock ‘n’ Roll. Although not on me. On me denim is.. everyday. And to my astonishment, it’s something that I have reached for almost every day of Me Made May. It’s a workhorse of a fabric coping with all but the most… Continue reading I’m a little bit denim.
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