So we're nearly there to Christmas and I'm at the stage where I'm giving up on all the stuff not done - didn't get all my sewing projects finished, scaled back of presents needing to be bought, may not get any baking done, but we'll get there. My big accomplishment of the week (besides freelance …
Category: sewing
A Lego mat
We are increasingly getting into Lego in this household. A few months ago I bought a mix of "Classic" bricks to go with our few other sets and since then there's been a lot of building happening. Sorting through the box to find one particular part is becoming harder as more pieces are added, so …

Super hero line up
After seeing the Super Hero Felt Masks pattern from Willow + Stitch I decided that they'd make the perfect Christmas present for my super hero loving four year old. I went to Daiso and bought felt and elastic, and printed the pattern out at the library, and got to work. I made one IronMan first …
Making hats
Uni is over for me, the last assessment handed in, classes over. I've had my eye on a pattern for making bucket hats for a while now but had no time to get experimenting. So while under pressure to get all my assessment and readings done, I ordered the patterns. The first hat is seriously …
Reading the manual
I was raised in a household that didn't read manuals or instructions. You figured stuff out by having intuitive engineering capabilities, pushing a lot of buttons, with screw drivers, by asking everyone else in the family for help, or if you ready to admit failure and that you couldn't problem solve, then read the instructions. …