With March being record sunny, mild and dry I honestly didn’t think there would be any opportunity to even show you this winter coat until next autumn but April rolled around, and wanted to have a good laugh at us fools, and with it the […]
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Berries in Winter Dress
Greetings friends! With things veering, once again, a tad more towards the terrible out there, I hope you and yours are all keeping well and are healthy. I’ve not been feeling great but been distracting myself by making garden seed inventories and planning this year’s […]
2021: Sewing, Quilting and Gardens and Greens
December greetings everyone! I hope you had a couple of cosy and restful days and that those who celebrate Christmas had a lovely, warm and delicious holiday. For my part December has just been speeding by; as always I mean to get my year round […]
Plaid Duffle Coat or an Escalated Test Drive
We went out the other day to take in the last of autumn and see the birth of the new winter season. When we were there, we took the opportunity to photograph my first self sewn coat. It was a beautiful cold, cold walk in […]
The Last Bits of Autumn
Congrats everyone, we survived whatever the end of November has become! As someone who doesn’t even live in a country that celebrates thanksgiving it’s truly bewildering to see how in just a few years out of the blue it has become an overwhelming capitalist hellscape […]
Four Patch Quilt
Today I’m going to show you one of my proudest achievements of this year; my first finished quilt! You might remember I mentioned in the past year that I dug out scraps of an old quilt work in progress and started working on it in […]
A Pine Green Isca
Hello and good day! Autumn finally seems to have kicked things off properly in these parts since we last spoke and I am enjoying getting out in the woods as much as possible and drinking in the changing colours and trying to see how many […]
Heather Shirtdress
October greetings friends! October, how on earth did that happen? When we were halfway through September I said to my partner how is it that my favourite months in the year always speed by as if they are chased by a pack of angry foxes. […]
Green Summer Shirtdress
On this sunlit warm September day I thought I would come and tell you about what’s possibly my favourite summer dress… ever. I’ve had this exact dress in my head since at least last summer, and I stitched it up just now right at the […]
Hummingbird Shirtdress
I’ve got one of my summer makes to show you today! I have talked before about my struggles with “hot weather”-makes. Those struggles particularly translate in motivational issues as I don’t get as excited about the planning and making process as I get with most […]