The Red Wren

Handmade Help – done!

Long time no post! I’m so far behind on blogging thanks to a few computer issues and having other things to do. Last weekend a group of friends came over and we made some softies for handmade help. Most of the girls don’t usually sew, so we had a bit of a production line with tracers, cutters, stuffers etc. The end results really reflect the joint effort! A big thank you to Lolly from Lollychops who very enthusiastically allowed us to use her Wendy the Bird pattern. The bunny ...

Sewing and Craft

Handmade Help

This coming Sunday in lieu of our usual craft day, my friends and I are going to whip up some soft toys for Handmade Help. If anyone knows of some relatively simple, free patterns out there please point me in the right direction! Thanks :)

Sewing and Craft

Yarn stash?

If you’d asked me a couple of days ago to show you my yarn stash I would have pulled out a couple of balls of yarn, some half done knitting and a pair of needles. Over the weekend it has grown….. Not a large stash, but enough to get me going. I’ve been adding patterns left ...

Sewing and Craft

Laziest project ever to solve a lazy habit..

While sorting through drawers on the weekend in an attempt to become more organised I noticed I suffer from sock abyss syndrome* (sas). My solution to help combat sas was to make a pre-washing machine sock bag. To make a lazy sock bag: 1 x 30cm piece of fabric, the width of the bolt.1 x piece ...

Gardening

Remember Veg About?

To tell the truth, I lost interest in Veg About when we had all that hot weather, plants were stunted, most of mine already gone to seed and overall our veggies just weren’t very successful. But in the last few weeks interesting things have happened: 1. The veggie garden is revived! Look ...

Our Home

Organisation

About a year ago I tried to become one of those super organised, no clutter in sight, type people. I even did an online course! A year later I still suffer from hoardism and I’m definitely not super organised. Last year as part of ‘Autumn Cleaning’ I put all my summer clothes ...

Food & Recipes

Tumeric Chicken #2

You may recall this post a few weeks back about Turmeric Chicken Casserole and how wonderful we thought it was. Since then, we’ve bought ‘personal casserole dishes’ so we can now personalise our casserole’s to our own liking! Yummy!

Sewing and Craft

Washing and Ironing

The only time I would usually wash and iron fabric is for an item for someone else. An apron for example.The weather was so lovely this weekend though, that I decided to wash all the ‘special’ fabrics I have that just sit there unused because I’m scared to cut them. Washing ...

Life and Outings

Farmer’s Market

This SUNDAY why not support the local community and head over to the Revival Farmers Market for Steels Creek? Steels Creek was badly burnt in the bushfires with very few properties remaining untouched. The revival market is to get people back into the area and help support these local ...