Tomatoes

31 Jan

I planted a ‘tomatoberry’ tomato this year, named for the small strawberry shaped tomatoes.

It’s been a real success, every morning I’m bringing in a handful of tomatoes and there’s many more to come!

Granny Squares

A few weeks back I enthusiastically signed up for Pip of Meet me at Mike’s Granny a Day 2010. It’s taken me a little while to get started and there’s been a lot of pulling apart failed first attempts, but today it finally clicked and I made my first ever square! It’s wonky and my [...]
Forest Friends Quilt- Finished!

I spent some of this afternoon sitting in a sunny spot in the lounge room finishing the last of this quilt;

I really enjoyed working on this and it will be sad (in a good way) to see it head off to it’s new owner – a sweet little 18 month old by the name of [...]
Doily Garland

Today we’re going to make a doily garland. It’s essentially a string of doily’s and paper circles sewn together.

You need:
1 packet of paper doilys. My garland used 32 (plus one extra for your circle template)
Christmas themed paper
circle template – cut the centre circle from your spare doily.
scissors
sewing machine, thread
1. Using your circle template (the centre [...]