Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘sewing’

Has it really been 2 months already…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »

So, yeah – bad blogger, no cookie.
The knitting has been suffering from neglect (as has the spinning) but the sewing machine has had a strenuous workout.
I’ve made:
* 2 dresses for me, same style (1812, scoop neck, empire waist) but one is pink with white sleeves while the other is dark blue in front with green/blue [...]

Read Full Post »

In the Navy

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , on July 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »

So this past weekend was School of the Sailor, an event relating to historical navy sponsored by our navy as lead up to their centenary in 2010. It appears to have been an annual event for the last few years at least and will continue at least until 2010.  This year was at Discovery Habour.
The [...]

Read Full Post »

Call Me Kate the Great

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »

With mom away I get to run the house. This morning by 10AM, I had planned the menu for the week, sorted all the laundry, tidied up the freezer, and was at the grocery store (note to self – it opens at 8AM could have saved time if I’d known that).
By 1ish… I had:
*done the [...]

Read Full Post »

Day 1

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

All of my sewing for the weekend is now done, today I made up my pockets (no embroidery on these as I didn’t get it finished, I’ll keep working on that and make a second pair) and that was the last of it.  Last night I tried the whole get up on… I think I [...]

Read Full Post »

Massive Post of Too Long Since My Last Update

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on May 6, 2008 | 2 Comments »

So how’ve you been?  Me… busy, school, work, flu… you know… the usual.
I have knit almost nothing at all, instead I’ve been sewing (more below).  I did go and ply the ingeo, and if spinning it was a bitch, plying was x400 worse.  After major vain attempts to ply it on the wheel (together with [...]

Read Full Post »

For my next trick, I will make fire.

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on April 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Since I’ve actually made yarn… and made it into something… that fits and has a pattern and everything!!

Today the internet (and phone) were down all day (thank you Rogers), so I couldn’t get any work done – or very little, as I needed access to the university library.  So I knit the Spirogyra out of [...]

Read Full Post »