15 Nov
Today was my friend Esther’s birthday so to celebrate she had a high tea at the Ivanhoe Collectibles Corner Tea Room. I hadn’t been before and was not disappointed!
The food (taken with my phone, excuse the quality)
My purchases!
Four gorgeous bowls:
Two embroidered doily’s.
Don’t you just love the swallows!
A redheaded lass called Ren, located in Melbourne, Australia. Likes to make, cook and grow things.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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