I have been becoming increasingly frustrated with the mess that surrounds my chair when I do mending or hand sewing so I thought I would make an armrest organiser to see if I could get myself under control. I did a lot of hunting for a pattern which might appeal to me and finally stumbled […]
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The minute I had finished my first Liz Haywood zero waste jacket I knew I wanted a spring/summer version. I dug out a piece of Marimekko I had bought in Stockholm and which I ruined with some reckless cutting. The design is quite lovely but I have these bias cuts all along the edge as […]
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I was out for lunch recently and one of my friends, Sofia, gave me a bag of beads; all natural, some semi-precious like lapis lazuli, citrine, jade, onyx, among others. I accepted them with alacrity! I knew immediately that I wanted to knit them into a necklace, as about twenty years ago I knitted some […]
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We had Katherine from Blooms Endless Summer and her husband visiting our holiday place for the weekend and we thought we would do a spot of natural dyeing using some donated tablecloth scraps. Whilst the fabric was mordanting we went foraging in the bush for interesting shapes – think Banksia leaves and kangaroo paw flowers, […]
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I have long said that I would never wear a pair of barrel trousers, mostly because I always feel as though they’d make me look like I had left my horse behind. Then I kept seeing the Fibremood Gizeh trousers and felt really tempted. I was finally persuaded by Sheila who is @Sheilalovesfabric on Instagram. […]
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Edition 30 of the Fibremood magazine is now out and it has so many lovely patterns that it was hard to choose one. In the end I went for the Havana, which is basically a pinafore dress and I thought it would be useful in the spring. It has a subtle bust dart for shaping, […]
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