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A sign of the times
It has occurred to me that one of the reminders of the past two years will be in the number of garments that have masks to go with them. I am planning two dresses for myself, and even though I doubt...
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A sign of the times, 2
The style of the embroidery for the masks is just like on the Jacket itself; felt as the basis, enlivened with wool stitchery. In this case, Mountmellick stitch and grouped blanket stitch on the...
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The Jacket of Many Stitches
I promised pictures of the jacket being worn, so here they are! We had some nice weather, and the Jacket smiles in nice weather. The hat is by Felt by Bridget, bought some years ago at the Harrogate...
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Taking an idea from the past
Years and years ago, I bought a white cotton shirt and a long cotton petticoat at a vide-grenier in the Gers, where we were visiting a friend who was restoring an old farmhouse about a hundred yards...
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Mending, Upcycling, and other adventures
As a family, we have always made and remade, mended and upcycled, garments, furnishing and furniture. There is a tale of five year old me, accompanying my mother to buy fabric for a dress in the now...
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Mending with a Mathstodon
We noticed recently that there was an unexpected hole in a pair of The Australian’s trousers. Unexpected, because above the knee, nowhere near a pocket, and the surrounding fabric was in better...
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More Mending with a Mathstodon
Since I’m not doing the entire design on a single patch, I decided to do the counting frame, not as a separate piece of fabric, but directly onto the fabric of the trousers. So, just to make...
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A scarf called Anthea
Just recently, I have been feeling rather bereft of the sort of simple embroidery that passes the time pleasantly. I’ve been assembling the Amarna pieces, and while they certainly engender a sense of...
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Final Mathstodon Details
Well, now, it turns out there was more to the Mathstodon than I had first intended! The mathstodon didn’t quite cover all the weakened fabric, so I added some trellis couching behind him to support...
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Another Mathematical Patch
We discovered another thin patch on The Australian’s trousers.. This time I found a slightly darker grey marbled fabric, and got The Australian to write one of the equations I remember from maths...
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