Playing catchup with Kid’s clothes week yesterday, after my slow start. I gave myself a bit of a challenge. I fell in love with poppy fabric intended for a quilt. Something about it shouted out tunic rather than patchwork. From the middle, the fabric starts with a poppy field in […]
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KCW – the …. slightly delayed….start
As most experienced mothers know, the time to worry is when you cannot hear your children and you should be able to. That’s when they’re up to something that they really shouldn’t be doing and it’s time to intervene. There’s a happy window with a sound range that starts at […]
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The beginning of the thread
This is the start of the sewing story, which should have preceded the middle and, well I guess, this middle, too. The story really starts on a cold night when I realised that I needed, to put it bluntly, to upgrade my nightwear. As I looked through my motley […]
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And now for Eldest’s Dressmaking
Ta-Da! Another FIRST dressmaking project complete! Following on from last week’s dressmaking, AJ’s nightie is now finished. Being 10, she did more of the sewing than her younger sister. I made a mistake with the sleeves, so I had to take over at that point, but apart from them and […]
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Maker of pretty things, living a country life in a 275 year old cottage, UK
