The Red Wren

Sewing and Craft

Forest Friends Stitchery

Have you seen Doodle Stitching – the Motif Collection? I bought myself a copy a few months back thinking it would be really useful for children’s embroidery. The best part of the book is that all of the motifs come on a CD which you can load into photoshop, resize and rearrange to your hearts content. My first piece is for the bub’s bedroom. I wanted to keep it simple and am really pleased with how it turned out. I’ve just purchased this pattern from her Etsy store to make some little felt  ...

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My Creative Space

I stocked up on some yarn in colours I like but wouldn’t usually pick for the house. Usually I’d go with teals, blues and purples, not add the yellows and corals into the mix. I’m planning to make a basic, straightforward throw out of these. I’m already working on a hexagon throw so basic is  ...

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Sewing and Craft

Circle Scarves

Yesterday I actually sewed something! Three scarves in fact!   I got this knit fabric a while ago from spotlight knowing that it would become a scarf at some stage. There was enough for two in this colourway so I gave the second to my sister. The second colourway. A bit more colourful, but  ...

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Sewing and Craft

eek!

Bub’s due in a week or so and it’s suddenly dawned on me that I have lots of piles of fabric and wool but not a lot of actual baby things to show for them! Time to get cracking. This is just a very small selection of fabric waiting to be something!

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Sewing and Craft

Needle felting

Needle felting wasn’t something I’d given much thought to trying until Two Cheese Please released her gorgeous toadstool terrarium kits last year. I snapped one up at the Stitches and Craft Show, but then, like everything else I snap up with good intentions it sat on my desk for months. And  ...

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Our Home

Baby room – in progress

I’ve been very slack updating since Easter. There’s a lot going on here at present: I have three weeks to go with my pregnancy, have finished up work and are now anxious to get the house in order and some things made. Over Easter we painted the baby’s room. It took more coats of paint than we  ...

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Life and Outings

Easter break

image courtesy of jules:stonesoup Have a lovely Easter break no matter how you celebrate. I hope to blog about some happenings here before the long weekend is out. We’ll be painting the nursery and moving in furniture and I hope to make a start on some quilts I’ve planned. Stay tuned!

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Life and Outings, Our Home

Unintentional Hiatus

I’m now 31 weeks pregnant which means in two months time there’s going to be a little bub in the house. Suddenly there’s a million and one things to do; painting, purchasing baby items, moving furniture around including relocating my husband’s study to the lounge room.. the list goes on. Fairly  ...

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Sewing and Craft

Baby Lamp

A few weeks ago Ink and Spindle posted about their new fabrics and suggested how great they’d be for a lamp in a kids room. I was completely taken with Pirates and Sea Creatures in Sage and had to agree. Within two days of the fabric arriving the lamp was complete: I’ve never done a lamp before  ...

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