Sewing, cards, crochet, cross stitch, and other crafty randomness. An Irish girl on the other side of the world.
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A few quick and oh so satisfying makes with cotton yarn. I followed the Greedy for Colour Christmas Bauble tutorial at the start and then kind of winged it at the end. I also added a few beads for an extra dimension.
A quick make but it took me ages to finish! I was gifted this merino fabric ages ago at a fabric hoarders fabric swap. The binding is from a local Japanese shop on Cuba street . Cute, no? I started it so long ago that I've managed to lose the free pattern I used to create it. oophs! I like the tie I've pulled together a loop from the binding for the front. I've french seamed the seams. I really love the finish. This was one of my first knit garments so its lovely to have it finally finished. I didn't have a recipient in mind at the time - just wanted to use up the fabric and start thinking about knit fabrics but a friend recently had a baby girl so it'll go in the post soon!
Gemma of sixty six stitches and Wendy of Sew Biased formed a blogging pact to post at least one post a week until our respective backlog of makes have been blogged. I've been creating a lot this year but not really blogging and in most cases, I've managed to photograph the makes. Thankfully it was a day or two into the new year so I'm still on target! So starting of this year of reblogging is a self drafted pencil skirt. Of course, it comes with rather poor quality photos! Overlocked on the inside. And fully lined with an internal yoke and invisible zip. I have such a flat arse seat that there's no back darts - but the fit is great and its a nice coloured addition to my work wardrobe. (with guest cat appearance)
My craft room was originally a dark terracotta brown and a deep almost blue navy. I finally picked a colour for it and spent some of the time over my Christmas holidays painting merrily away. It really was a pleasurable experience (except when we realised that the skirting boards weren't actually white and we had to redo those too as they had bits of the old colours liberally applied in places they shouldn't have!). The colour of the room was something in between the photo above and the one below. They really were quite strong colours. (And in case you noticed, yes I did write on the wall with my tester before we painted!) I'm very much a process girl and I thought a photo of the room with my painters tape up and the undercoat would be vaguely interesting for people. Ok, fine, I can't lie. I'm just too damn pleased with the whole process not to share it all - it is a web log after all :D It was at this stage that I remembered my mother's sage ad...
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