Fabric Friday – brights
Kids are great to sew for. I asked Matthew to choose any fabric he liked so I could sew pants for his cousin. He chose this one. And he asked for some pants of his own! It’s such a bright fabric. It’s from my grandmother’s fabric stash. Matthew wears these pants all the time, usually […]
26/3/12 – 1/4/12
26/3/12: Well, when you’re feeling ill and have no energy and your baby cries through the night, again, and is diagnosed with hand, foot and mouth disease, and cries so much due to the pain in her mouth – which is so bad she can’t eat much – you find it hard to find much […]
Fabric Friday – storage
I have a fabric dilemma. A storage dilemma! I have fabric in a cupboard. These are mostly fabrics that my nanna bought; some of them are older than me. I’ve got fabric on shelves above my sewing table. (fat quarters leftover from Christmas!) I’ve got folds of various fancy and ordinary fabrics above my desk. […]
Being home
I’ve had to take time away from work to care for Elora, who had to be excluded from Childcare. She caught Hand, Foot and Mouth disease at Childcare. It’s a highly contagious but fairly benign illness, where tiny blistery sores develop on the hands, feet and mouth. Elora’s case is mild and our doctor didn’t […]
19 years
The earliest photo I have of us together, National rowing championships, Queensland, April 1993 (I pinched this photo from a display in my school hall when I was in grade 11!) us, now, 19 years later If somebody told me that in 6-and-a-half years our Georgia would be meeting the boy she would marry, I […]
19/3/12 – 25/3/12
19/3/12: let me tell you about Elora. She’s 17 months old. She has a great sense of humour. She likes wearing shoes and socks and she’ll hand us her shoes and sit herself down so we can put them on. She brings us a clean nappy when she needs to be changed. She likes to […]
Processing beef
a homegrown BBQ lunch Yesterday the butcher came to cut up the beef that had been hanging in the cool store in our driveway for nearly 2 weeks. The meat had aged; the fat was a different colour and parts of the meat were covered in ‘ageing,’ which looks like a type of mould, but […]
Mending jeans
Monte got a tear in his jeans. He asked me to mend them. I was only happy to oblige. It’s a fairly big tear, about 7cm. I ironed some double sided interfacing onto the wrong side of a pretty floral patch of fabric. Then I peeled off the backing paper and ironed the patch onto […]
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