I’m very happy and pleased that my Mum agreed to let me photograph her wearing her very recently completed hand-dyed-embroidered-and-stitched creation, and to show the pictures here on my blog … thank you so much Mum! This is Mum’s third…
Tag: handcrafts
Alabama Chanin; a tank top
Fortunately I have managed to finish the matching embroidered tank top to go with my skirt. Hurrah! for plane trips and the resulting enforced hand-sewing time! I’m so happy with the full ensemble; I like how it looks like a…
Alabama Chanin skirt and tank
Hello! So! after hours (and hours… and hours…) of aeroplane and in-front-of-the-TV stitching, I have finished my first AC project(s). This is the mid-length skirt and the fitted tank top, both from the book, Alabama Studio Sewing + Design, by Natalie…
the Wolery
After my brothers and I had all moved out of home and started our own families; I started a rather non-rigid, and not annual, tradition of making a Christmas ornament for each of us… just something silly and small, not…
Handwoven “rag-rug” placemats
Another set of hand-woven and -stitched items from my teenage years… and I cannot believe I have so far overlooked these very frequently used items in my documentation process! :O To the best of my memory, this is probably my very…
Hand-woven
Every now and again I come across another handmade item in my house that I have not yet documented on my blog here… This is a set of serviettes, handwoven by me! Yes, I have dabbled in weaving, in a…
Random stooff…
1: I saw this idea for seedlings on Better Homes and Gardens and thought awwww, how cyooote! So had a go myself…. these hold sweet peas (yup, planted on St Patricks Day, thus earning myself a gold star for being…
It isn’t easy being green…
… at Christmas time. Oh tosh. Of course it can be VERY easy!! Something I feel guilty about every year is the massive pile of wrapping paper that gets tossed out on Christmas Day. We go through our wrapping paper…