My quilts chart a slow progress. The purple and orange one started with pencils in February 2010, fabrics in March and was pieced in May. There was a long slow pause, while I found the boarder and finally quilted it last weekend. It's taken almost a year.Intially it had no purpose other to satisfy a craving for a certain colour combination. I merrily...

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I often become infatuated with colours, in a school girl crush way. This crush started simply enough with my daughter's drawing box.The orange and purple just seemed to be resonating. The combination had struck a chord with me and suddenly I was seeing it every where. If I wasn't seeing it, I was making it happen. It was months into this infatuation that...

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Now that I have jumped into the deep end that is sewing for me, I've decided I might as well keep swimming. This skirt came together over the New Year's break. The pattern is burda style 7346 and I just love it. The details call it a balloon skirt - imagine a puffball, but without the 80's.I have made some adjustments to it....

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Sewing Green had me hooked at the cover. I am a big fan of Betz White’s Warm Fuzzies so I was delighted to see more of her felted jersey project in this book. Sewing green steps beyond the basic up-cycle and includes remaking with table cloths and shirts, repurposing with place mats and using some unconventional materials like tyvek (builder’s wrap) and juice...

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While long weekends don't mean an extra day off for everybody, in our house they mean and extra day with us all together. I've put my mind to some simple things to do with a long weekend in a small town, like Greytown.1 - Have a Picnic at the RiverOur town is surrounded by meandering rivers that make for great picnics. Ask around...

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Sew La Tea Do is the sewing book that makes you want to down tools and go Op Shopping. The pages a crammed with beautiful photos of objects and ephemera amassed by the talent Pip Lincolne. The styling is beautiful and layout inspirational.I picked up Sew La Tea Do because I was head over heels in love with Pip Lincolne’s last book “Meet...

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Pizza has become a Saturday night tradition in our house. It's a day when we are around to watch the yeast rise, have time to just nip out and get short lived items like mushrooms and when we can take hours over a meal.The kids are fully conversant with the wonders of making pizza. I love to watch that moment when the yeast...

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Sometimes it feels as if nothing ever gets done around here. But if I take the time to think about it, we've been up to a lot over the last year.There have been quilts, quilting bees, plastic beasts and I have even dabbled in embroidery. I've been supprised at how much I liked embroidery. It was nice to try something new and hence,...

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