Monthly Archives: February 2016

Sunday Sevens #15

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Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own.   A surprinsgly productive week considering I didn’t even leave the house until weds evening. Next week would like to make more tops, look at getting a decent pattern for a layering… Read more »

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Sunday Sevens #14

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Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own.   Only 6 photos this week as I haven’t really been doing much. My Aims for next week are to finally beat this cold, and organise. There is only a month till… Read more »

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Broccoli on toast.

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So having been wiped out by this wretched cold all week I don’t have much food in my house but I decided I needed to up my veg intake. I also had the joy of telling my mother that I was having broccoli on toast for dinner. Having had this post come up on my news feed just the day… Read more »

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Blue Brioche Cowl

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I decided to make a cowl to match my headband. I have been wanting to make one in brioche stitch with a variegated yarn and see what happened, or even possibly two variegated yarns… I used King Cole, Merino Blend DK in Petrol (926), and James C Brett Marble Chunky MC52 I cast on 90 stitches in the plain blue… Read more »

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Sunday Sevens

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Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own. So I am currently sat on the sofa in Southampton even though I should be back in Poole, curled up under a blanket feeling very sorry for myself… I have had quite… Read more »

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2015 Sewing

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Last week I didn’t have a very productive week, at least it didn’t feel like that, thank you to everyone who told me that they thought I had been productive. It made me think about what aims we set for ourself. Within the sewing/blogging community it can be very easy to see other people churning out garments one after another… Read more »

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Sunday Sevens #12

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Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own. This week I am also going to continue to post my goals for the coming week to see if that helps me get them achieved. *Second attempt as everything disappeared from my… Read more »

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How to: Embellishing shoes

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So in a few weeks (far too soon in fact) I will be performing in our annual Strictly show where I will be dancing the waltz with my ‘celebrity’, who up until Nov/Dec time had never danced before… my partner is shorter than me and so I am most likely going to end up wearing flats instead of heels for… Read more »

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Project Preview: Latin Dresses x 2

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So this year and last I have been dancing latin in a girl-girl partnership, and because of this it looks much better to wear matching dresses. Last year Pippa and I whipped together this two-piece in a week for the first competition to match my partner’s existing dress and it has worked quite well so far. However I decided I… Read more »

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Sunday Sevens 11

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Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own. This week I am also going to continue to post my goals for the coming week to see if that helps me get them achieved,              … Read more »

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