Wedding Season – Katie Fforde
Posted in Book Review on Jun 26th, 2008
If you like Katie Fforde, you’ll like this one. Reminded me of The Rose Revived. I got it from here – (I love this place.)
Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery and Sewing
Posted in Book Review on Jun 26th, 2008
If you like Katie Fforde, you’ll like this one. Reminded me of The Rose Revived. I got it from here – (I love this place.)
Posted in Knitting on Jun 18th, 2008
I finished these socks - no photo sorry. I’m a bit disappointed – they are very baggy around my ankles. My fault – I didn’t do a tension (guage) square. I’ve started another pair using this wool.  I’ve knitted a tension square (5 stitches per inch) and calculated I need to cast on 40 stitches (as [...]
Posted in Book Review on Jun 9th, 2008
Mister Pip, the winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, has been the novel of choice for many of my friends’ book clubs. For this reason I have been avoiding it but I finally succumbed. Lloyd Jones, a New Zealand author, has written several novels (including This House has Three Walls and Book of Fame). Mister Pip, [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jun 4th, 2008
The quilt top is finished. I think it is a bit busy, but I’ll reserve judgment until the end. I plan to piece the back using the left over pieces of fabric from the top.
Posted in Quilting on Jun 2nd, 2008
I thought it was time for more craft. Above is an image of the quilt I am making with my Japanese Fabrics. I’ve based the quilt on a suduko puzzle. That is, I have nine different fabrics and I have used a Suduko puzzle to determine the nine patch layout. I allocated each fabric a number [...]