Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Knitting on Feb 27th, 2008
We all needed a bit of cheering up last week, so I went to my favourite fabric and wool store (Calico and Ivy), which just happens to be next door to the girls’ favourite toy shop (Fun, Form and Function). I bought myself two more balls of sock yarn and A bought a doctor’s set [...]
Posted in Book Review on Feb 25th, 2008
I bought three books from Persephone Press - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson, The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Family Roundabout by Richmal Crompton. The service was fabulous and the books arrived within a week and they are beautiful! Each with a book mark that matches the end papers. So far [...]
Posted in Book Review on Feb 19th, 2008
I’ve just finished reading Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell. I read it because Jane Brocket recommended it in The Gentle Arts of Domesticity (in the section on The Domestic Library page 28).I enjoyed it – it was certainly domestic. In someone ways it reminded me of E F Benson’s Mapp and Lucia novels (although less tongue [...]
I bought myself a heart shaped cake tin – everyone should own a heart shaped tin. This is a chocolate cake with rose pink icing – recipe from this book.
Posted in Quilting on Feb 9th, 2008
I went to this store - my favourite quilt store – and bought fabric for the binding and backing for my Turning Twenty Quilt. The orange spotty fabric is for the binding and the bottom fabric in the image is for the backing.
I finished my first pair of socks! I feel extremely smug. I’m now making a second pair …
Posted in Knitting on Feb 4th, 2008
I finished one sock. I feel very pleased with myself. It is by no means perfect, but I finished a piece of knitting that I started – of course I still have the other sock to do!
So despite my first attempt at making socks being so disastrous (I have unravelled what I did and I’m starting again with smaller needles), I bought more yarn*, needles and a book. I have also found a really useful You Tube video. So far I have managed to cast on (using the Long-Tail cast on) and knitted [...]