Did I Mention I Quite like Yellow?

Oh, and green, I like green! A couple of summer skirts for My Little P. I've been trying to work out the underskirt/band thing shown here in the green, and after unpicking a Pumpkin Patch Skirt that was bought for Miss P, I finally cracked it!

A bit of a breakthrough today regarding sewing, it's raining here in Sydney today, and I usually only sew when P is asleep, it's been a nightmare telling her not to touch, blah blah, today though she understood that I had work to be done, and she watched a DVD. There was still some noisy shout-outs of "Muuuuuuuu-uuuum" but on the whole it wasn't that horrendous. Um, she still won't let me sing though, I get cries of "Stop singing Mum- I don't like it", I'll have to work on this, cause I reckon I sound pretty good, I think it's more the song choice though, perhaps I should switch from P J Harvey to Justine Clarke!

ebay fabric

I'm stalking the postman at the moment, I've bought this fabric on ebay, it's 3 meters, which goes a long way in this house, making kiddies clothes is great in that respect! I'm always anxious with ebay till I actually get the fabric - I bought a pink print once that turned out to be fluro!

WAIT, is that a scooter I hear?

One good reason not to buy Wiggles band aids

Tools, I Need Tools!

From hotch-potch applique to hotch-potch quilting! I can see now why quilters have so many tools of the trade, things that I look at and think - yuech, maths, that's no fun! Armed with one of Little P's Richard Scarry books (template), and a pair of sharp scissors, I set myself the task of making a summer quilt for P's bed.

Here it is so far, in all it's unfinished glory. It's quite big, as I want it to go over her pillow, or not, depending on the day (I'm very fickle - so I need options). Made with oblongs of left over fabric sewn into strips, and as I suspected I've gone wonky in parts, but I quite like the over all look. I just have to put wadding in and back it now - still tossing up what to do as far as binding? It's a bit big, so I guess I'll just sew it straight onto the backing. It's been fun, and I'll be doing this again, but maybe with a few more tools and allot more patience!

Linen finds

Objects of desire (ie. 60's tat!) at the oppy have been a bit thin on the ground these past few weeks, I'm happy with my little linen haul today though - love the orange seersucker table cloth, and the tea towels are Irish Linen and have never been used, we shall rectify that!

Flashback - Dad in his Sunday Best

I love this photo of my Dad and his cousin Lynn, taken in Whitby, in North Yorkshire, on what appears to be a really windy day. Taken around 1949.

It's appropriate that I post this photo, as my Dad has just spent a week in Sydney, after travelling out here from Holland where he lives now. He is in a wheelchair these days and has had major heart surgery, this hasn't curbed his drinking or smoking habits, nor his belligerent attitude! The day after he got off the plane he was taken to RPA Hospital, where he spent the next 3 days. Dad is now up in Nam-bore with my brother, who is threatening not to let him drink or smoke, it's bloody hard telling a dying man 'no' I've got to say, and I let him do whatever he likes, cause he really doesn't have long to go, and there's no telling him! Live and let live I say. I can't say that we have or ever had a close relationship, but you know he's my Dad, and he's lived his life according to his own set of rules - for better or worse.

Flashback Friday - Sunday Best

This photo of my big Sis and I taken around 1979 over at Our Gran's House. Not long after this photo was taken my Mum divorced my Dad and brought the 3 of us out to Australia, that all happened in 1980. I'm not making any excuses for the clothes, I can however blame my Mum for the hair cut - it is shocking - and to this day I look awful with a fringe, I gave up flirting with them years ago, but I always wanted that jagged 'Sydney Theatre Company Fringe'.