I finished a fun project for jemimah last night! I like how it turned out and I managed to finish it without want to throw my sewing machine across the room.

  ... and I'm so glad your sewing machine wasn't a casualty ...

Hi everyone! I've been in crazy-thesis-writing land for a while, and I miss you all! Hope to be able to play again soon

Lovely work, it's fabulous!

Hello lovelies!! This is such an awesome swap, one of my great faves

I'm so excited to be crafting with jemimah (and a little nervous because she's AMAZING)!!

I think you said that the wrong way round, because I'm super excited and a teeny bit nervous, and YOU are AMAZING!

Proof of my silliness:-
I was going through some patterns on the weekend, and spotted a cool looking Japanese pattern I must have printed out a while back. It's one of those ones all in Japanese with diagrams and a drawing, and measurements. It's easy enough to follow, I think.

So I look at the drawing and think, oh a __________, what a nifty pattern, Lime light like one of those! Let's give it a try. Cut, cut, cut ... sew, sew, sew .... fold, tuck, fiddle ... sew, sew, sew ... think smugly to self, Oh, Lime is going to think I'm so clever .... get to last step ... hang on a minute, that's not a ___________ at all! It's a __________!  ....

... thinking face ....

So I added in an extra piece of fabric and made it into something else entirely!    (... anyone here read Japanese ?)

texscrapper has been a bit busy, so I offered to post a pic of the earth-tones knitted scarf I sent her.

Mervyn Peake is definitely ... um ... unique, and can be quite hard work ... his book Mr Pye is much easier going, and a charmingly odd story.

I did enjoy the TV series of Gormenghast, but I'm not sure how involving I would have found it if I didn't already know the characters from the books, it had to skim over a lot. But it's probably worth a try, it does have Jonathan Rhys Meyers in it, after all.

I LURVE this!! Amazing

Just sent in my sign up - yay!!

Hi everyone! I might be out of OWS for the next round or two, just with life being how it is right now. But I'm still checking in to see how you all are, and admire all the crafty goodness.

Hope everyone's doing OK   We will be moving to an apartment in Wellington later this year, so I have some serious destashing/organising/downsizing to do!!

What lovely things everyone! Cool knitted necklace and felt food, and I love the obi belt