Here I am, aged about 23 or 24, sitting on top of a mountain in the Lake District in England. Im nonchalantly crunching my way through an apple, looking for all the world like I walk up m...
Yeah, yeah... music (a very weirdly eclectic mix).This week, its been all about the iPod camera, which Im still trying to get to grips with (but keep finding myself without any other camera ...
If youre looking for me today, Ill be at Treehouse Textiles, teaching in a gorgeous Australian bush setting, eating gourmet food and feeling a bit fancy. For the rest of the forseeable week, Ill...
My felted-jumper (sweater) stash has been getting a little out of control lately. Ive been gathering them to play with a few bag/teaching-related ideas in mind, but havent got as far as p...
When the lovely Ms CurlyPops announced that she was having a skirt sew-along in May, I immediately signed up, with great hopes for sewing up a skirty storm in preparation for winter. Since I fo...
Ah... Sewjourn.... Each time we go to Sewjourn, it feels more like home. Its a haven where time and routine dont exist. Or... at least not until about 2pm on Sunday, when the buzz ...
...on the sewing machine, at least. In real life, its all butter-menthols and early nights (and a few hot whiskeys). While Im not quite running on all eight cylinders, Im using my limite...
Ive blogged this recipe before, but its particularly seasonal, so I think its worth running again (this time with my own Instagram pic). Its the Irish cure-all, and right now I godda gold........
Yesterdays Customised Bag class was all about the fiddly bits that can be used to polish up a wide variety of bag designs.There were hard bases and purse feet, super-duper straps and zippered c...
Firstly, many thanks to the many wonderful people who left comments here or on Facebook or who sent lovely emails after my last post. Ive been quite fragile lately but youve made me feel s...
This morning, when I woke up extra-early to work on ROUND THREE of feedback/edits from the final testing on the Best Dress pattern, I also woke to a reply - a single line - from a mailing ...
The smallest quilter in the house had a very proud moment today. A finish..... And all done without help from a pesky sewing-teacher mother. The pesky sewing-teacher mother was bustin out ...
We were off at a gallop this morning. There was laundry and vacuuming and general tidying before prospective buyers came to look through our house (auction looming). There was a hairdress...
Two events showcasing local arts and crafts - The wee girl and I are going to have a busy day!www.nicolemdesign.blogspot .com
For those of you who have been waiting patiently (or hounding and begging me on a regular basis), Ive AT LAST scheduled some new dates for classes at my studio in Northcote. Im not s...
Today, as I drove in to the city to teach my Trapese Line Top at Kimono House, I realised I didnt have my camera.... and then remembered that my newfangled gizmo (iPod) has a camera on it. Unli...
I may have mentioned before, that Im a bit of a multi-tasker. Actually, Im a LOT of a multi-tasker. At any given time, Im running about ten express-trains of thought in a comp...
These photos are borrrowed from Bargain Box Fabrics in Mornington. I swanned about the place a few weeks ago, bossing people about and stopping for autographs, and the gorgeous Ally snapped pho...
Ive no idea where time is flying to lately, but its certainly going fast. Already, another week is gone and Ive failed - once more - to document the goings on. A quick recap is in o...
A recent sorting of the yarn stash has inspired a bit of a knit-a-thon in these parts. It was decided that several birdies could be knocked senseless by the same stone, so to speak. ...
The Easter weekend was a welcome oasis of family togetherness... mostly because the smallest member of the family had a tummy bug and we were confined to the house, but Im embracing positives here.&n...
To quote my 82-year-old no-nonsense-ex-farmer Dad, my mother "was a bloody genius". Today, Mum was definitely with me in spirit.The man of this house, who grew up in a Greek-Ortho...
Ive stopped flitting about the countryside long enough to get back into some serious instruction-writing. Yesterday, it was all about the minutae of how to do all the fiddly bits and I came aw...
My old Evening Bag pattern has been given a bit of a facelift lately. Were nearly finished a re-working of the instructions and trying to decide on a new cover design. And its being...
Its occurred to me more than once, that this scene is my comfort zone. No matter what kind of chaos, minor ailments, grief or stress is going on in daily life, I step into this scene and ...
...fabric stores. If youve heard rumours suggesting I get around anywhere else, please be assured that they are greatly exaggerated entirely fictitious. I dont even go out. My patterns, h...
If you happen to have this months Australian Homespun Magazine, youll see what all that secret squirrel work I was doing last year was about. Its a big "project of the month" bag-making...
Apparently the class is booked out (theyre now taking bookings for when I return in May). You can still come to the trunk show, win prizes, take advantage of some great in-store specials, play ...
It appears that Ive had better things to do than keep up a blog about the things Ive been doing.... This hasnt been the case. Ive just done a bit more driving about the countryside (and c...
Today, being a public holiday here, I snatched a few hours for myself and went into the studio to sew. I had a lot of finishing-off to do. Between things that Id started and not finished, ...
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