Was that a dinosaur? 2.0

Category: sewing

  • Where did January go?

    It started with doing some quilting over the first 10 days. Then a couple of weeks of reorganising and decluttering my living room/ sewing room. Finally summing up the courage to trim the quilt. https://youtu.be/v03IFyYmWsI?si=b1BLd6UGoXI-7JP6 Then I pressed the binding in half winding it onto an empty ribbon spool ready to sew it onto the…

  • Two thirds of my life

    September has been Hell Month since my dad died two thirds of my life ago. Since then September has become a car crash of sad anniversaries and I usually end up spiralling into a grief funk. This year I’ve called it Sewvember and the photo collage below shows what I’ve achieved so far this month.…

  • A month of Reading and Sewing

    In January I started reading the Daisy Dalrymple series of books by Carola Dunn set in the 1920s.They are currently available in the Plus Catalogue on Audible here in the UK. Today (3rd February 2024) I finished the 20th title in the series (Gone West-photo on the left of the collage below- just 3 to…

  • Oh My Gosh

    Why the title? It feels like years ago when I applied for access to the beta test for Be My Eyes virtual assistant after seeing this video from Lucy Edwards (it’s actually about 4 or 5 months). https://youtube.com/shorts/EF3lW2lRioY?si=x7hsNY0EkgJ0UBEj Well I got an email yesterday morning (4 September 2023 at 9:12am) that I opened just before…

  • Accomplishment

    What positive emotion do you feel most often? Too often I used to note only where I failed. I’m currently at my daughter’s home and brought some hand sewing for me to do when they are watching tv of an evening. Last night I made a boo-boo on the 4th (and last) hexagon I brought…

  • Don’t wait for the perfect project!

    Describe your life in an alternate universe. This video made me think about my fabric stash. https://www.facebook.com/reel/886507096044277?fs=e&s=TIeQ9V In my alternate universe I would have been brave enough to cut into my precious fabric earlier. I wouldn’t agonise for weeks and months about what project to make. Or about fussy cutting fabric. Of course it was…