… avocados and fire service… is there a link I hear you asking yourselves.. read on, my friends, read on. For the past couple of days I’ve been experimenting with dyeing fabric and wool with avocado skins and pits. I put aside a couple of items, a linen top, a skein of dk wool, a …
Back in 2013, Mr M and I visited Nashville. For me it was a dream come true, I love country music and was in music heaven… for Mr M it was a work trip and days of endurance… his feet are firmly grounded in 80s British music so that wasn’t really his thang. Bourbon helped. …
It’s half term around here and yesterday was one of those days that found us, unusually, all at home at the same time, all busy in our own way but together under one roof and it felt really nice. As the boys grew and we’re beginning to think about university or gap years and when …
The lampshade is finally done and I couldn’t be happier. Here it is in its place in the conservatory: and look how warm it looks when it’s lit! It glows. good night. Sweet dreams. SaveSave
During my middle school years Cecilia was one of my best friends. She lived near town and cycled everywhere and I was very jealous of that because we lived miles away and couldn’t. In fact every time I visited her we used to both get on her bike and just roam… me siting way back …
… my obsession with macrame continues… I’ve ordered lots of coloured rope but in the meantime I need to make do with what I have… it’s quite incredible how much rope/cord it takes to do anything… metres and metres of the stuff. Sunday afternoon, after a stupidly early morning hockey tournament and a consequently unavoidable …
I’m still knotting. There’s something meditative in the repetition of the movements, in the soft feel of the rope through the fingers that is quite addictive, in seeing the pattern develop slowly in front of you. I’ve bought a cheap adjustable clothes rail and some very scary butchers’ hooks and the whole set up is …
… and just like that, one knot at a time, it’s finished. Well done me. I love it. I need more knotting in my life. But first the knitty gritty (I sooooo wanted to say the knotty grotty….)… the pattern and instructions are from this book: Absolutely brilliant. Easy diagrams and clear photos… I had …
“the art of knotting string in patterns” I’ve been admiring all the gorgeous macrame wallhanging for a while now trying to decide if they are cool or too bohemian or too vintage looking.. and I decided on cool. When Mr M and I had some time in Palm Springs, a year or so ago, …
It’s amazing what you can do with a bag of scraps! I’d ordered a couple of bags of scraps from the Denyse Schmidt’s website a few months back and the other week when the sewing itch needed to be scratched I cracked open one of them and just started sewing pieces together. Like a puzzle. …
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