My Mum and Dad are enormously creative and talented. They have made heaps and heaps of beautiful things…a visit to their house reveals one lovely work after another. I took some pictures of just a few during our last visit……
Rusty red wool/silk skirt
I’ve made a new skirt… I found this yummily coloured, beautifully textured wool/silk mix fabric in a remnant bin in Tokyo, the day of our shopping trip with Yoshimi and Novita. At the time I just picked it up instinctively, with…
Featuring small versions of Tim and Cassie…
Whizzing back a few years now… and here are some more of the little outfits I made for my children when they were small. These were “good” outfits, but of course I used to dress my children in good outfits…
An ancient xanthorrhoea…
… and me. We have been busy recently; school holidays and an overseas visitor staying so we have been going sight-seeing. There is nothing like touring one’s own surroundings and talking about local features to make one truly appreciate all…
Sam’s quilt
An ongoing part of this blog is the documentation of stuff I have handmade in the past, including the small collection of quilts I have made for my family. I have shown here before Tim’s quilt and Cassie quilt, now…
Horrible colour, begone
So, as I mentioned last post, colour… Exhibit one; some grey synthetic knit stuff from the remnant bin. Remnant bins are a terrible trap really, aren’t they?, the fabrics within can be so tempting pricewise, and the truth is they…
Blue and green, etc
We all remember that silly ol’ saying about blue and green never to be seen (together), but I love blue and green together. Particularly because teal and turquoise, both quasi sort-of versions of both the blue and the green factions,…
Mum’s dragonfly vest
I hasten to point out, not my work at all but another clever example of Mum’s creativity… A vest made of Japanese linen; resist dyed, with a lovely dragonfly motif in the natural linen, and the background in traditional indigo. The…
