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Lounge room curtains, 2

29/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Lounge room curtains, 2

This is the second set of curtains in our lounge room, opposite the other pair here.  As this window faces the street I made these curtains first, the other set was made a little further down the track, er OK…

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Lounge room curtains, 1

20/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on Lounge room curtains, 1

One set of my lounge room curtains!  There is another set, which I will post pictures of next week.  I do try to limit my blogging in some ways, as in, yes, I do post every day which may be…

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Family room curtains

13/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Family room curtains

Boring curtain alert: As previously warned I do have a preference for the simple and uncluttered look in my house, so my curtains are not going to win any awards for innovation here… that being said I feel these curtains…

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Bedroom curtains

08/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Bedroom curtains

Here are the curtains I made for our master bedroom.  Oh, I did warn you that most of my curtains were simply boring rectangles… so I hope expectations haven’t been raised too high… I expect my curtains to be simple…

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Dining room curtains

30/05/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on Dining room curtains

Sewing curtains is a real drag.  No seamstress will say otherwise.  Boring, all straight seams, no challenge in it.  And mundane. Most of the curtains I’ve made have been plain rectangles with curtaining tape sewn on at the top, which…

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2 Raspberry Cushions

23/05/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on 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…

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Cute kitten photos, with glimpses of lounge suite re-cover, version 2

20/05/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on 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…

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Lounge suite re-cover, version 1

12/05/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Lounge suite re-cover, version 1

My post last week entitled “Lounge suite re-cover” should really have been given the addendum “version 3”, as it is the third re-cover this suite has endured…   After searching high and low for a photo of the first re-cover…

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