Stitching, Baking, Making

In January I bought some fabrics I'd had my eye on for a while.

They were superbly reduced which made the temptation to buy impossible to ignore.

Some while later I found the perfect pattern in a library book for the grey print.

The Back to School Dress by Christine Haynes started life with me as a dress.

Then it was ignored for quite a time while I lost my making mojo.

Yesterday I took it in hand again and the dress became a snappy little top.

Although I really should unpick the neckline and sort out the slight pull to the right, I wore it today and felt grand in it.

One word of warning though. Wearing cardi's over puffed sleeves can give you bruiser upper arms.

Not the kind of look I'm generally after.

Bruiser arms fed by an addiction to these little beasts is another problem altogether.

My other attempts at finding my creative joy again has been to start hat knitting.

Red Artesano merino at first has been overtaken by a green All Seasons Cotton.

Hopefully soon I'll have my hat ready for next winter!

Sometimes I try and solve losing my making by fiddling with fabrics.

I think these want to become a quilt. They just need the hands to start chopping them all up now.

Before all of that though there's so many other demands on my free time.

Getting the house ready for selling, wading through finances and making future plans.

All weekend we worked on the outside of the house for that instant fall in love moment.

Miss Millie treated us by baking her first suprise cake for Sunday afternoon tea.

Here's half the front of the cottage all spic and span.

By early summer it'll be a riot of colour with pale lemon Scabius, pink roses, purple thingies and hollyhocks.

It'll be hard to leave our home, but the thought of new adventures beckons us on.

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