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It’s Saturday

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And a glorious Saturday it is too.

I was the lucky recipient of these gorgeous hand dyed, hand spun yarns in a swap with Nell. Aren’t they beautiful, especially the rainbow one. I feel like I did when I was a girl and received a special soap or something and was too afraid to use it. I’d just admire it for a long time!
Nell kindly included an embroidery book (here’s a girl after my heart!) and even a pack of lollies for the children! I can’t show you what I’ve sent her yet as it may not have arrived.
We’re headed into the city today for the Freedom to be Born March, it should be a great turn out on such a nice day.
All the best for the weekend, God bless you all.

Silk mandala cape

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Remember the mandala I dyed last week? Now it’s a children’s cape! It is really gorgeous, I’d love to make more of these.

I intend to make one for each of the girls but as my silk supplies have been somewhat depleted recently it will have to wait.
I used some of my son’s handpainted fabric for the collar and added snaps for doing up.
This one is in my Etsy shop now, custom orders are available too.

The winner is…

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Congratulations Tonya, you are the winner of my hand dyed fabric giveaway!

A big thanks to all who entered and a huge welcome to new followers, I hope you enjoy this space.

I’m making plans for my Christmas giveaway now, stay tuned.

I’ve listed a couple of dolls in my Etsy shop.

Mandala dress

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I finished this dress/ long top for my 3 year old today, it was quite a process, but well worth it! First came the dyeing then the sewing, as I wanted separately coloured pieces. I used habotai silk and made up the design as I went along.
The back view is a beautiful turquoise. I love turquoise. The dress sits gorgeously on her and is light and flowing.

I’ll be making these in various sizes for my Etsy shop once I do a little more tweaking. I think they would do well at a market too, which I hope to do eventually. If anyone is interested in pre ordering for Christmas you are most welcome to contact me.

My first mandala woohoo!!

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                                                                              That’s it!
I’m officially moving into my laundry and dedicating my life to making beautiful colours on fabric, you may never see me again except when I have some new colours to show off.
But then I guess someone has to cook, clean, care for the children…….

                                                Ah well, one can dream, can one not?

I love breastfeeding, but…

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I guess it’s part and parcel of breastfeeding that you receive the odd nip here and there, I’ve certainly received a few over the years.
This morning’s “nip” however, was perpetrated by a 14 month old with plenty of teeth who didn’t let go until she realised I was screeching because of her! I have the wound to prove it too! Trust me when I say the offended area was throbbing and burning for quite some time.
In her defence, I think she thought she was biting my nightie which I was trying to wrangle out of the way in the wee pre dawn hours. My husband’s instant response was that I will now give up breastfeeding altogether – it not being worth the trouble.
But… but… I don’t want to! I’m not ready! Each of my babes have been the ones to give up, not me.
It’s such a special thing to be able to nourish a child in this way and to have close bonding time (not that chomping does much for the bonding!) Perhaps it’s because I know she may be our last baby because of my medical problems, that I’m more determined to hang in there.
Whatever the case, I have big apprehensions about the impending bedtime feed tonight.
We shall see…..

In much brighter news it’s a glorious sunny day today so I baked some fruit loaves. The girls had their hair washed and put on some pretty summery dresses.

We smothered the bread with jam and pure cream. Marvellous. We ate both loaves!
Our garden picnic. Happy times and treasured memories.
Happy weekend!

Giveaway!

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Yes it’s that time again and I’m very pleased to be giving away some hand dyed fabric for the first time. The winner will receive a hand painted fat quarter and 2 hand dyed co-ordinating pieces measuring 16 x 16 inches from my skyscape series.

To enter:

1. You need to be a follower. New followers are welcome to enter.

2. Please leave a comment telling me why you like hand dyed fabric and what you think you would do with it if you won.

3. If you blog about this giveaway and link back to here you will receive an additional entry, please come back and leave an extra comment to say you’ve blogged.

The winner will be selected by random integer on Tuesday 5th October.

Thanks for entering, all the best!

Phew, it’s finished!

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You know how some projects just drag on and on, you lose your enthusiasm or don’t have the tools you need?
I started this cover for my A4 size art journal yonks ago, I don’t even remember when. I really liked these fabrics from a Crafty Mamas swap with Carolyn so I wanted to use them to make something I would be seeing often.
I started out hand quilting but realised it was going to take me forever (those who hand quilt entire quilts now have my utmost admiration!) so I bought a free motion foot for my sewing machine and made this my guinea pig. It took a while to get used to and I still need practice. Youtube was a big help, except when I saw that 4 year old girl machine quilting like a pro, then I felt really embarassed!

My son has been having a go at fabric painting and has had some fantastic results! Here are a couple of his first swatches.

                                                He’s looking forward to doing lots more.

Ok, that’s all from me for now, I have to get back to baking that lemon curd tart I started. I want to say thank you to those who commented on my last post – all very helpful and constructive advice.

Watch out for a giveaway here in the very near future.