Category: Making
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A good reason to start knitting again
I know I’m always saying I can’t knit. Well, I can actually. I can knit little squares. No, they’re not for testing the gauge – that’s my real knitting. This little blanket was started way way way back in time (here to be precise) and I only got half way before Astrid was born. But…
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‘Normal’
This year I decided to actually lose the baby-weight I oh so efficiently gained (on medical instruction I might add) in the last two months of pregnancy. I had been so incredibly annoyed with myself every single day last year, that on New Years day I thought fuck it, I’m buying some scales and going…
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Nani Iro sewing patterns + Paris
Thanks to Jen for the link to the nani iro site, I happened upon a heap of patterns for download. Follow this link and navigate by clicking the pictures or the dates on the top nav (as long as you stay within the sewing section). I want to make the baby bloomers! And a few…
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Out with the old…
This weekend I have at long last had the time to sit down quietly and sew to my heart’s content. And because I’ve been having such a big clearout on TradeMe (our eBay equivalent) I’ve been able to return to Linnet again (just in case I’d forgotten anything) – although really I need to be…
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Making. Making.
As well as shopping, sometimes I make things too. Like bags. With echino and re:form and trefle linens and cottons. All mixed up like. With heavy lilac dkny linen handles that fit just nicely over the shoulder. And then I might make other bags from vintage swedish linen, a dash of japanese fabric, a piece…
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Two books
I ordered these early October. They’ve just arrived. The first ones got lost in the post somewhere along the way but book orders are never a rush – there are always plenty to read right here. The first book; one piece + smock blouse is the only clothing book I’ll be needing, at least for…
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Oh it’s all a big mess really
I tidied my desk yesterday. It was all getting just too much. We still haven’t painted the walls white. The garden is getting totally out of hand and I have a very steep and urgent web programming learning curve right now. And all I want to do is sew. And watch re-runs of Spooks. The…
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Shop update
At Little Orchard shop. Cath Kidston print baby / weekend bags. Vintage japanese yukata fabric bags. Snuggly bunny. Versatile halter neck dress / skirt / tops for ages 1-5 in vintage Japanese fabrics. Liberty print halter neck tops. All new pure and natural organic skincare for mums and babies, hands and feet including a fabulous…
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To market, to market
Activity levels have been upped a bit in the past week to ‘as high as possible’ due to the upcoming ‘my first ever craft market’ at Coatesville on the 2nd of December – and again on the 16th for a twilight market. There’s also a bit of a do up at The Cream of Matakana…
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Baby steps
I am not sure whether or not I have mentioned here that my burning ambition for many years was (and still is) to be a shoe designer. Just now I want to be lots of other things too. Whenever I bump into someone I’ve not seen for years they first thing they will without fail…
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Kawaii print fabrics from Sweden
I’ve been quietly collecting some rather lovely pieces of linen from Sweden over the past few months. So this long weekend I sat down and made a few of them into zip purses of many shapes, sizes and colours. I am so in love with these fabrics – and so when Bernadette blogged about this…
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Baby clothes dans la Shoppe
Ach well – it’s the end of another week – and time for some more productivity photos. My Bernette sewing machine is on the blink again – so I am now permanently back to my trusty old 1970s Janome which I do so love (now I know how to use it properly). I have made…