The Red Wren

Selvedge Saturday

Well, I’ve been unusually productive on the sewing front this week and it was hard to choose which project to put up for Selvedge Saturday (of course you can see all of my latest projects over at my sewing blog if you feel so inclined to have a look-see, but give me a day to put them all up!) but in the end I chose the bag I made today. I created this pattern back in July (you can see the original bag here), but due to the Summery nature of the bag I hadn’t given it a real test ...

Sewing and Craft

Bag fun!

Today I made this bag. The pattern is my own design and I suspect it’s going to become my signature bag as it’s easy to make and comfy to use! I’ve just posted on Hollyhock Hollow about it, you can read a little more about it there, but more importantly- there’s more pictures!

Food & Recipes

Foodies Friday

When I was a little girl, Dad grew very interested in Chinese cooking, one could even say he became obsessed. His mission was always to make the perfect fried rice. His fried rice never tastes like the rice you get in the Chinese restaurants, it tastes better! Over the years I watched dad ...

Sewing and Craft

Coin Purse

So it’s 2009 and I seem to have hit the ground running in a sewing sense. I’ve sewed three days this week which is more sewing than I’d done for the entire December! Tonight I decided I was up for the challenge to make a coin purse using a purse frame. Eep! I found this great ...

Update

A new year and the 100th post!

I did it! This is post #100! I was beginning to think I wouldn’t scrape the last few in by the end of the year, especially since we’ve over downloaded and it’s a tad slow on here presently, but I have! The last thing I’m writing for this blog this year is a list to ...

Sewing and Craft

It’s all about the apron

Today I finally found some time to whip up an apron for a gift using the pattern Jona kindly gave everyone for Christmas via her blog Stop Staring and Start Sewing (good advice!) It was so easy to sew (although I will admit to a minor mishap with the waistband caused by me reading the pattern ...

Sewing and Craft

New Years Craft-o-lutions

With 2008 rapidly dwindling and the promise of a new year almost at the horizon, I thought I’d make some New Years resolutions revolving around creativity. They are: General Do not spend hours and hours looking at other people’s craft – get working! Participate in swaps. ...

Gardening

Glorious Gladioli – part two

A few weeks back I posted about my lovely gladioli. We enjoyed the gladioli for exactly five more days after the post until it broke under it own weight on the the windy rainy Saturday of the 13th! It still had lots of unopened flowers, so I bought it inside to see how it would fare. Three ...

Gardening

Veg About

Well, Veg About isn’t going so well at Rose Cottage. As you will have seen in a previous post, vegetables rebelled and went to seed. We have tomatoes, although something has munched on a few, we still have and abundance of peas, the potatoes look good, zucchinis are struggling, spring ...