As I am very fortunate to live in Cornwall, I have been inspired to create something that reflects the Cornish coastline and combine some of my sewing talents. Some of you may have heard that over the Christmas, New Year and into January period we endured some rather major storms – so much that part … Continue reading
Well it’s been a while – have you missed me? Last year my husband and I committed to something that will be potentially life-changing but that became very time consuming. It will, hopefully, be come more time consuming again but for now life is relatively quiet again. Sorry to be quite so cryptic but all … Continue reading
Matthew and I celebrated our fourth wedding anniversary yesterday. The traditional fourth wedding anniversary gift is flowers or plants but as we are on a bit of an economy drive at the moment we agreed no presents (though Matthew did, naughty boy, buy me some freesia’s which are one of my favourite flowers). I decided to … Continue reading
Matthew and I have been invited to a wedding later this month – nothing too out of the ordinary in that statement. But this wedding requires a fancy dress outfit for the evening reception! There is a fairly broad theme, anything beginning with C or S – the Bride and Groom’s initials. However I found … Continue reading
Although I finished these cats while ago, it has taken me a while to find time to put finger to keyboard to talk about them! They originate from the same pattern as the puppy doorstops but my original focus was the puppies. I felt it was time to give the cats a go and here … Continue reading
Receiving a friend’s change of address card through the post prompted me to work on a New Home card using the machine applique technique. All I can say is that houses are SO much easier than Cathedrals! I made two and sewed directly on to the card, so didn’t have any of the problems that … Continue reading
When I move into a new house I immediately set up a little ‘to do’ list and inevitably find myself finally working through the same list by the time I come to sell the property. But then again, as my family and friends will testify, this is the 5th house that I have bought and … Continue reading
When setting myself a new project I never seem to start small but rather tend to launch in ambitiously large. So when attempting to have a go at free hand machine embroidery (as I now discover it is called), I don’t settle for something simple like a house (square, small, simple), oh no, I have … Continue reading
For various reasons that I won’t go into at the minute I am attempting to applique Truro Cathedral, but am running into a few problems. Fortunately the people at the Cathedral have produced a child-friendly cartoon style picture of the building which I am using as my template (less windows and a lot simpler than … Continue reading
Over the weekend I (with some help from the lovely Matthew) made a litter of puppies. About three years ago we acquired Peter Puppy from a craft fair in Brecon, he is a rather handsome doorstop and soon found a home in front of our TV where he was much admired by our friends. Being of … Continue reading
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