Dug this skirt out again from the recesses of my wardrobe… I don’t know why I’m not wearing it as often as I once did. I love it. I made this last summer; not the summer we’ve just had but…
Karajini socks
So named because I knitted these as we drove up to Karajini for a camping holiday with our friends the A’s. I knitted one sock on the way up, and the other sock on the trip home. It is my…
Navy blue jacket
Digging through my winter wardrobe is producing some old creations… This jacket I made about two years ago and wore quite a lot for the last two winters. This year I looked at it a bit sideways, wondering if it…
2 Raspberry Cushions
Flash-back about seven years: we picked this chair up at Melville Markets (a local carboot sale) for $5; it was pretty rickety because it was missing its front foot-strut. My clever husband whipped up a new one the same afternoon…
Cloudy with a chance of brights
Yes, (air fist punch) we got rain! And lots of it. And my favourite kind, overnight rain. The garden doesn’t smell at all now … well, OK just a tiny bit, but not like yesterday. When the timing of these…
Need a deluge; now
Please take my word for it that my hair looked quite nice before I got to take this photo; an sudden evil wind struck up out of nowhere and I went from looking unusually chic, smooth and polished to my…
Cute kitten photos, with glimpses of lounge suite re-cover, version 2
Not very good photos today, I’m afraid, if you’re looking for high quality pictures of sewing projects. However, if you’re into photos of impossibly cute kittens, then this could be your favourite post of the day! I was hunting for…
Ruthlessly cutting off 4 inches of python…
Something had been bothering me about this python skirt (first posted here) and I finally realised what it was. The length. It just wasn’t me. I think skirts suit me best when they are either quite long, like mid-calf to…
