Thursday 20 October 2011

It's been that time of year again...

..when I've had my sewing machine whizzing away at making dance costumes for my friend Alison's youngster.  So to celebrate finishing them I allowed myself a little spare time to do a few more bottle bags in the rustic burlap-style fabric.  Each of these have the string tie detail...

...and if you look very carefully at the first photo you can see a little bit of the top of the stripped dresser I've been working on this Summer.
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Tuesday 18 October 2011

Busy Needles

I had this pattern for hand warmers and wanted to try it out so found a half ball of cotton-style wool and gave them a go...

 
...and I was so pleased with them that I tried a pair in pale mint green in a moss stitch...

...but these are asking for flowers to be added... 
...and then a yummy woolly brown pair with fluffy ribbing and crocheted flowers... 


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Monday 17 October 2011

Summer project update...

Do you remember when I shared my Summer project idea a while ago (July)?  Well I thought I'd finally show you some photos of the base of the dresser:
The 'shelves' shown are where the drawers go

and the door slides across the drawer fronts to open the cupboard side 
and my man has fixed the back, which was buckled and wavy but now lies nice and flat. 
The base has since been stripped back to bare wood and sanded and is looking very rugged and rustic now.  
The shelves are still untouched and will have to wait for better weather and more energy.
Watch this space for the updated photos...
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