Here in Melbourne, the first Tuesday in November has been a public holiday for many years, as the ‘race that stops the nation’, the Melbourne Cup, is hosted here, at Flemington Racecourse. I took advantage of having a day off to complete a small patchwork top that I started several years ago when I first… Read More
A couple of months ago I signed up for the Hooked on Exchanging Fall Pyn Keepe Exchange. I was so excited to be able to participate after around about a year of not being part of any exchanges. I had chosen not to be involved in previous exchanges because every time I did get involved,… Read More
Woo hoo!! She is finished! I have placed the last stitch in Sophie! … welllll, almost. I still need to stitch the buttons on, but as 2 of them are currently wandering around somewhere, I will have to call this finished for now. Okay, so the important details. Started before we moved back to Australia,… Read More
Yesterday we had the last of the calisthenics comps for this year over in Gladstone Park. For whatever reason, the girls were a little down, and it took a while to get them revved up. It did not help that one of our girls had gone away for the holidays and still wasn’t back,… Read More
on the first of the month. Well, not really, but it sounds a lot better than August Goals, don’t you think? In August I am planning to: complete Shepherd’s Bush ‘Sophie’s Roses’ complete one row of alphabet on Berthe Massiet (Reflet du Soie) stitch on Blackbird Designs Anniversaries of the Heart complete the embroidery of… Read More
In April, I embarked on the mammoth project that is the Dear Jane quilt. It is not a true reproduction, but rather my version of the quilt made during the American Civil War. Over the last few weeks, I have had a theme for writing about my progress on this quilt bubbling away in my… Read More
I have not been able to do much stitching this week. Between going to bed late as I have watched Le Tour de France (GO CADEL!!!!) and getting up early so I could go to work, my eyes were constantly sore from tiredness all week. BUT Monday evening I went to my regular Sit and… Read More
Remember in January I posted about the projects that I had started but were sitting in various UFO piles?The 10th project I spoke about was the Jennifer Knol Ditty Bag. At the time it was still in lots of pieces. Well, here you see it almost finished. Almost you say? Why show it now? Welllll,… Read More
NB: If you are here to visit my studio as part of the Where Bloggers Create studio tour, please proceed to the 16th July entry… Over the last 2 weeks I have been working away on my first ever softies, I have already shown Miss Buttons, but I was hoping to have the next three… Read More
It has been a long time since I posted about what I was stitching on. This morning I looked at Sophie’s Roses, by Shepherd’s Bush, and realised that I really should give you an update… I LOVE Le Tour de France. During these 3 weeks I tend to get a lot of stitching done as… Read More
