I want to show you all the Bo Top I made a bit ago! This is my first foray into woven tops and it was one of the things I made during my Covid-19 lockdown sewing burst. I’ve been meaning to make a woven top […]
Another Use for Double Gauze
Waking up With Bird Songs
Hey all. Summer has arrived in the year that is already a decade long. It’s the season of waking up with bird song through open windows. I thought I would come here and write a bit about what’s going on my end of the screen […]
A Springtime Balcony
Hey all, how are you holding up? One of the things that has given me great joy during this shittest of times is seeing the plants on my balcony growing in the new season. Spring season means it is basically changing every other day and […]
Dinosaurus Drex
Hey all, got a fun make to show you today. It’s denim, it has mega-deep pockets, and it’s got a dangerous bite – Intrigued? Read on. The pattern is Marilla Walker’s Isca dress. A pattern I was smitten with instantly when it was released and […]
Colourblocked Skiff: Blackberries and Cherries
Hey makers, How are you all doing in your individual lockdown / social distancing circumstances? To be honest, on my end I’ve been struggling, and been feeling perpetually tired. I’m trying not to be hard on myself about it, since things as they are are […]
Flannel Hinterland
Hello readers. Coming at you with some warm sewn comfort this time. I know, I know, two finished makes on the blog in as many weeks…what is this, 2012? Well, not exactly but I thought since I’m spending more time at home now (as are […]
Harvest Moon
Hey all, I thought I’d show you my blue colourwork allover cardigan. This was my primary knitting project for the winter, a long lost time where it seemed perfectly normal to want night sky echoing colourwork cardigans. A time when going out for groceries wasn’t […]
Checking in
Hey all, I wanted to see how you all are and tell you how I am and how I’ve been coping in these strange, strange times. (And I also wanted to give those of you who follow my blog via a blog reader the chance […]
New Website
Hey everyone, a blog housekeeping post from me this time. Depending on what platform you’re reading from, you may have noticed some changes: After years and years I decided to move my blog from it’s humble blogspot roots to it’s very own space. It was […]
Sister Winter
Greetings from a storm battered Treehouse! Like much of Northern Europe we’ve been visited by rushing gales and battering winds. I took a few things from my balcony as a precaution but other than comforting spooked cats from the whistling sound of the winds and […]