Oil and Thread

This is a dress I made around the end of 2014 in readiness for Christmas of that year.  I never got around to blogging about at the time....

I think it is nice, sometimes, to not really know where I am going until I get there.  That is how it was with this piece of work.  I canno...

I can't claim this as my own.  It's a vintage item that The Much Belov éd's mother sent from the US.  I think it is such fun I w...

Alright I promise that, during my sabbatical from blogging, I did sew something other than aprons but for the time being that is what I a b...

This ruffled apron is separated from the first by about eighteen months of time.  The first was such a hit with the ladies of the family th...

Dear readers and follows I am sorry not to have written sooner.  I really don't know where the time has gone.  More responsibility at wo...

I moved house twice in 2013.  I have been lucky in that both of the dwellings allow for a designated sewing room.  Some of you will remember...