For a while our house was swimming with fishes, dolphins and sharks.  Little E had marvelled at the sharks at Kelly Tarlton's.  We saw stingrays, moray eels and baby carpet sharks.  She was drawing them for weeks afterwards. I snatched aside one of her sketches in January, to turn it into this embroidery.  I kept the sketch close as I copied it, but...

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I've been slowly adding to the collection of printed glasses in our cupboards.  It started with the strange yellow giraffes you can see in the background.  then there was diamonds, bamboo leaves and yachts.  this week the little red glass joined the collection.  If I look carefully I can just make out the word "konini"* for the little red flowers above. My grandmother...

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The wedding quilt is finished.  It was carefully handed to my new Sister in Law earlier this week.  Now I can share it without ruining any surprises. The colors have been been chosen to match their house.  The pattern is an eccentric square in square.  the first few blocks were built around the black and white centres.  I grew attached to the optical...

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This nordic cardigan is one of my favourite opp shop finds.  I love to imagine the story behind such beautiful workmanship and why it looks unworn - perhaps it was too small, too itchy, not pink enough.  Someone must have cared a lot to have knitted this beautiful piece.  It has been carefully knitted in the round with steeked openings for the front...

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It's been awhile since any quilts have been finished around here.  A quick check tells me that I last one I finished was August last year.  I have been working on this one since September last year and trying very hard to improve my project monogamy.  I promise, I haven't been distracted by any other quilts.  Winter jackets, clothes and wooden boxes yes,...

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  Call me optimistic, but sometimes I like to believe that I am just one sorting system away from a tidy house.  In truth, I am one sorting system and a whole life makeover away from a tidy house.  For a brief moment this looks like it will work - a box for each child to carry to their room and one especially...

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