Hey….I’m here…still….. Life’s just been getting in the way a bit recently. So much to do and so little time…Nothing major, just the normal stuff…work, family, house, garden and seeing friends I haven’t had time to catch up with for a while. Good stuff. But there hasn’t been any sewing going on. I guess that’s [...]

The weather this Easter is so inutterably disgusting that there is absolutely no point in heading up to the mountains and trying get some skiing in. Here in the foothills it’s alternating between wet snow and lashing rain, all out of a thick foggy sky. It doesn’t get a lot worse than this. Spring feels [...]

This weekend I finally made some knitting and sewing progress…. The sea glass quilt top is sown together. Most of these blocks were made for me by the Sew Euro-bee-an bee and then I topped up with some of my own. It isn’t very big – a little under 5 feet by 6 feet. I’m [...]

I’ve had my eye on things on the web made with honeycomb stitch for a while now…it looks a little tricky and I wasn’t 100% sure how to do it. There’s a pattern for it in this book…(that I’ve been wanting to use for ages)… It’s called VJunkie and apparently was inspired by vampire blood [...]

I hereby present the sum total of my creative efforts this week… …the toe of one sock… (But at least I got that far without running out of yarn!). To be fair, these are great socks. The yarn is perfect,it’s Kells Sport Merino courtesy of the Three Irish Girls and is unforgettably named ‘If it [...]