Archive for “March 8th, 2010”

On this page the following entries were made in the “March 8th, 2010” time-frame.

Not just sewing…

Posted March 8th, 2010 by candi

I have been doing more than just sewing lately – it was a long weekend here in Adelaide, so we went down to see A’s mum yesterday. On the way we stopped at a friend’s house, who has four children. My two, and A played with them nicely while we talked about sewing. This week [...]

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Papie!

Posted March 8th, 2010 by candi

Papie is the word Dexie uses for paper at the moment, very cute, we think. I recently printed off 24 A4 pages to make up a pattern, sticky taped them together and traced it on to thin interfacing. When I was finished with the paper, I turned it over and gave it to Dexie to [...]

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Calenday photos

Posted March 8th, 2010 by candi

I finally uploaded the photos, so you’ll know what I’m talking about – Calenday. Dexie had to be in the photo. This is how we hang it up. The proportions.

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Oven mitt

Posted March 8th, 2010 by candi

A complained that I hadn’t made anything for him. So I made this oven mitt. I traced a pattern off one that he likes, but made it bigger for his manly hands. Notice the strawberry in the background? I’m quite pleased with how the quilting turned out. I have enough left over to make a [...]

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Frankenstein Undies!

Posted March 8th, 2010 by candi

Yesterday we went to a friend’s house for lunch. She is a sister sewing enthusiast and we swapped some patterns. I have some of her precious Ottobre patterns. In one of them I saw a pattern for girls knickers, which interested me, but there was also a pattern for women’s knickers. In Mum’s stash there [...]

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