Anknel and Burblets

dreams come out my ears and go round my head and i read them.

  • We’re home

    Wow – thank you all so so much for all your messages! We’ve loved reading them – Kevin brought them all in to hospital for me to read on his phone. It’ wonderful to have such an amazing support network 🙂 It’s so good to be home again. We went pretty much straight back to…

  • Edith Rose

    (kevin here) After weeks and months of waiting, and us mistakenly thinking she’d be early, Edith arrived on her due date of 16th January, at 10.53pm, with a hiss and a roar. A seemingly straightforward labour started at about 1pm and things progressed normally during the afternoon. After taking advice from a friend (whose husband…

  • Due date

    …and I appear to be having half decent contractions. We’ve been for a walk and now it’s bed and a hottie. Hopefully we’ll have a baby by the end of tomorrow today. I’ve also created two Blurb books – the family albums for 2007 and 2008 – a job that’s been languishing for some time…

  • Come on baby come on come on

    39 weeks, 5 days Might bake that cake today. And we’ll walk to England’s Lane later on for toulouse sausages. Last night I put together the blurb family album for 2008 – it’s brilliant – can’t stop looking at it.

  • Time for a cup of tea

    … and a sit down (and a scone). I’ve finished the sewing binge. Babychops ii clothes are all freshly washed and re-packed. I made scones. I’m thinking about a cake. Maybe. Nah. Now all I feel like doing is sitting down and doing nothing. And possibly knitting. But before I do, a few notes on…

  • happiness*

    pyjama pants : top liberty dante in green, bottom linnet cotton floral. pattern from robe rouge This morning I woke up and all these amazing things came flooding into my mind. How everything I’d ever dreamed of for myself had all actually come true after all. And while I’d always thought I’d never achieved so…

  • Another winter outfit

    Seeing as we’ll be having two winters in a row – albeit one more like the corresponding summer – and because if Astrid’s trousers are both in the wash we have no trousers I thought it only prudent to make another winter outfit. Now of course. Because it’s so jolly cold. Astrid’s duvet cover froze…

  • babychops ii blanket

    pale grey cotton flannel and purple rosebud print both from linnet cotton batting from quiltdirect Well, it’s a quilt isn’t it. But it’s not a patchwork quilt. Wasn’t ready for that. The next one however I am ready for. And it will be patchwork. And it will be linen. And I will not use bloody…

  • Nesting and the new sewing machine

    using up scraps + nature baby ribbon God it‘s good. My new Elna 5100. Really good. I can sew while Astrid is asleep even. And in the next room even. My sketchbook is full of ideas, full of projects being ticked off. More batting has been ordered. Blankets are being made. It’s cold outside. And…

  • Notes from a small island

    Thirty eight weeks yesterday. And we’re on the mend. Today I redeemed my New Sewing Machine For Christmas voucher at John Lewis. Today I didn’t spend twenty quid on a cab. Today the bus driver let me on free when my card failed. Today I sat next to a lovely lady on the bus who…

  • the Astrid Dimension

    Sunday was Astrid’s second birthday. Monday mummy and daddy noticed Astrid has got even cuter. Again. Sunday morning mummy couldn’t pull herself together to stop crying. She cried and cried and cried and just wanted to stop all this sickness and make everyone better again and to go home and never be so silly as…

  • The happy hum

    My sewing machine came to a very noisy grinding halt the other day. It was only a few hours later Polly’s vintage Husqvarna was humming along happily, finishing the quilt for my niece, and the Christmas presents that had been cut and overlocked – all waiting for finishing. Little double gauze and cotton jersey trousers…