raising willow… and dexter!

I decided that Dexie needed something else on his bag. For someone who was against commercialisation of children’s things, I’m not doing so well – he’s got a Thomas the Tank Engine bag, a Maisy bag tag and now a Hungry Caterpillar bag tag. Plus his new TTTE sneakers. The front. The back. It’s pretty [...]

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About a week ago, I was pottering around the internet looking for some ideas for easter baskets. I saw one idea that looked good, but of course, I didn’t bookmark the page so now I can’t find it. It was a simple idea though, so with a bit of help from Willow, we made two [...]

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Love is not perfect and neither is this quilt. Willow loves it though and that’s all that matters. FYI, quilts are rather difficult to photograph at night.

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Not really. Just had to post that I finally found the bloody pink variegated silky cotton. It was in my bag, along with the backs of some self covering buttons, so I suspect that little fingers might have had something to do with it.

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So, for the little heart quilt, I’d bought some pink, silky variegated thread. I was certain that I’d put it down on my sewing table, but when I went to use it, it was nowhere to be seen. So, I started sorting through my stash, reorganising it and finding new things. Now I have all [...]

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This is the little quilt I’m working on. First, the appliqued hearts. Then the actual quilting. The quilt uses a calico backing, and I had plenty of scraps for the hearts. It’s based on an quilt in the February 2010 Get Creative magazine.

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One day there was a little girl. She was invited to her friends birthday party, so her mummy made an apron as a present for her friend. Her mummy wanted to take a photo of the apron, so while she had a shower, she asked the little girl’s daddy to take photos of her wearing [...]

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I made two more pairs of undies today, one for Willow and one for me. I thought the white elastic and stitching might lighten my pair, but they really just look like granny undies! I have found another pattern that looks a bit more modern. Willow chose the purple elastic, so that’s what I went [...]

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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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