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I feel so sad to say goodbye to Pugsley tonight but he was over fifteen years old, had heart problems and lately, fluid on the lungs which m...

I arrived home from work today to find a yummy looking big parcel on the kitchen bench. I bought a lot of mixed fibres on eBay from Teresa ...

This photo is a close-up of the broderie anglaise embroidery on the bodice. It is a creamy colour and not stained yellow as in the photo, I...

Today was one of those quiet Sundays when everbody was busy doing their own thing around the place. Eddie spent most of the morning taping ...

I have FINALLY finished my thirteenth block - the one for myself. I have used all the colours that were in all of the other blocks, pink, g...

I have been promising my grand-daughter Taylia that I would teach her to sew on my sewing machine and we decided that if she had a sleep-ove...

This is the outer shell of the library bag before the lining went inside and before the strap handles were sewn. At this point it was a ver...

This was the tricky part, sewing the handles in long, straight lines then sewing across the bottom of each strip. At this point I decided t...

Success! Taylia is so proud of her finished Library Bag. The only sewing that I did was the line around the top of the actual bag to (a) c...

I had the most wonderful morning shopping in our local Good Samaritans Op-Shop today. I scanned the best bits because I can't believe th...

    I have finally finished the last two Easter Gathering blocks. The pastel Apricotty one is for Andrea and the blue and yellow one is for...

Okay, here's the photo that did it!!! Sandie took it while I was waiting for permission to dive into the pile of Chicken Scratch fabr...

This is the third time I have tried to publish these two blocks which belong to Norma (top) and Brenda (bottom) who both live in the US. N...

This is the little bit of variegated green tatting which I did on the plane coming home from the Easter Gathering. I chose a plastic shuttl...

These two photos show Catherine concentrating while I was teaching her to Shuttle-tat. She managed to pick it up quickly and it wasn't ...

At the Easter Gathering we all took turns at being (a) the teacher and (b) a student. Consequently all of us learnt new skills and techniqu...

These two blocks are very similar in colour even though the only common fabric is the rose pink satin. The one at the top was for Sandie w...

The block at the top of these two was for my friend Mary Lewis. Mary always loves cream on cream so that is what I gave her. The picture i...

Here are two more of the Easter Gathering blocks. The top one was for Belinda (Bear) who specifically asked for purples. I tried to add as...

These are the first two of the block I made for other people at the Easter Gathering. The top one was for Maureen who requested Creams and...