Sorry, I haven’t had much to say lately. I’ve been relearning/remembering how to manage the pain of CFS. It is best to just keep really warm – that keeps the pain at bay. When I am warm, the pain is just a small undercurrent. When I am not warm enough, it becomes an interrupter. Most […]
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It was lovely to have another weekend at home with my family. On Saturday morning, I began making a new leotard for Rainbow Girl. It must seem to regular readers that I am always making new leotards for her. Well, yes, it does happen quite regularly! Because she trains 4 days a week, and keeps […] I was home again this weekend, after having been away on holidays and/or away teaching for the past three weekends. It was lovely to be home with my family again! However, that didn’t make it any less busy. On Saturday, The Reader and I went off to our pattern drafting course again, this week finishing […] I posted this on my personal Facebook page and the Vetty Creations Facebook page yesterday, and it got such a great response that I thought I would share it here too. At the doctors yesterday morning with one of my children, there was a new “waiting time” initiative. There was a box with wool and […] To pre-wash or not to pre-wash, that is the question. Thanks to you, my lovely readers, over the last few days I have had some quite challenging questions. The main ones run along the lines of “do you pre-wash your linen before you count?” and “why don’t you pre-wash your linen before you count?” Excellent […] On day 1 of this series we looked at the definition of evenweave. Yesterday, on day 2, we looked at the four 38 count linens with which I am familiar, and whether they are really evenweave. Today we’re going to look at what to do if you have the linen for your Portuguese Whitework project […] I saw a Venn diagram on Facebook yesterday that had three circles along the lines of “stuff you like doing”, “stuff you are good at”, and “stuff people will pay you to do”. The intersection of those three circles was your dream job. It again made me realise how wonderful it is that I do […] I’m sorry for my silence lately. I have been very busy whipping up a couple of projects for… (drum roll) The Berrima Patchwork “Quilting in the Highlands” Retreat for 2013! About two weeks ago, late one evening, I received an email from Tamsin and Sue at Berrima Patchwork, inviting me to teach at their quilting […] I had a lovely day working with fabric and threads yesterday. So many gorgeous colours. I took my fabrics to a local shop to buy threads to go with them. I have a little app in my phone where I have all the embroidery threads that I own listed. It means that I can […] Yesterday I spent a few very enjoyable hours choosing colour schemes and patchwork fabrics for a class project. The first colour scheme wasn’t too hard, as I had already planned it out. It was simply a matter of finding fabrics with those colours. The second colour scheme was much harder, as I had not properly […] |
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