I’ve been wanting to try free motion quilting for a while but was always too nervous and knew I wanted my new machine first. Since I have no more excuses, I got out my instruction manual, lowered the feed dogs, changed the foot to an open toe foot and off I went I learnt along […]
{Keep Reading...}godmother duties
April 26, 2009 By 7 Comments
after spending yesterday cooking, cleaning and making a quick quilt label (remember this quilt?) we were all up early for my little niece (and now god daughter’s) baptism at 9am this morning…..isn’t she a cutie? (excuse the chaos 3 babies created in the background) we hosted morning tea afterwards and there was plenty of food […]
{Keep Reading...}and keira loves it!
April 24, 2009 By 14 Comments
miss keira came home from pre-school, gasped, covered her mouth in shock and then told me it was so beautiful! I had to remind myself she’s still 2 after that award winning performance! here she is trying to hide from me (yes, behind a glass door) and model the dress…..never standing still she loves it…I’m […]
{Keep Reading...}very simple, very pretty
April 23, 2009 By 13 Comments
sometimes fabric is so pretty that you don’t need to do much to it. I think this has to be one of the prettiest fabrics ever and today I whipped this up…. simple bias binding ties and my machine whizzed through it all giving a much neater finish than my old machine ever would what […]
{Keep Reading...}here she is….
April 22, 2009 By 17 Comments
I’ve spent the past few years chugging along on a very old janome dreaming of something nicer! its been trusty but was old, brown, 25 years old and getting tired. And I work hard in this house of ours and decided it was about time I treated myself to a new machine….so here she is… […]
{Keep Reading...}sweet potato and feta frittata
April 20, 2009 By 19 Comments
In this house meals need to be quick, easy, healthy and meat free…..and since I’m the one who does all the cooking its up to me to deliver. One of our absolute favourites is frittata, served with garlic bread (ok not so healthy but yummy and always in my freezer) and a salad. Sweet potato […]
{Keep Reading...}still rippling
April 19, 2009 By 22 Comments
well, here is my progress on the ripple blanket…I take it to bed each night with good intentions, but usually get too tired after a few rows or have to turn off the lights to get miss keira to fall asleep (a little miss who doesn’t like going to her own bed) I’m loving it […]
{Keep Reading...}pleated skirt
April 19, 2009 By 9 Comments
I picked up this cord from Spotlight for about $15 a metre last week because it looked so european and not like I bought it from spotlight. This morning was raining and pouring so I pulled out my pattern mags and whipped this up…. The pattern is from Ottobre 4/2007 and took about an hour […]
{Keep Reading...}the party shrug
April 18, 2009 By 7 Comments
I’ve spent the past 24 hours knitting up a storm making this little shrug for keira…I also made a serious dent in the chocolate left over from easter at the same time (knitting, coffee, chocolate = a nice way to spend the day except the background music was crying babies!) but trying to get my […]
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