Ten to one in the morning used to be a good time for falling asleep. Radio 4 had Sailing By followed by the Shipping Forecast. I’d normally be asleep by the time the Shipping Forecast was relevant for me, not that it really made much sense. It just has a soporific sort of rhythm to… Continue reading Stitch By Stitch: Sailing By
Author: C
Life and crafting adventures: mostly cross-stitch, crochet and papercrafting.
Notes From My Office: July 2021
My office is full of boxes and my craft supplies beginning to be packed away. Or set in the trolley as a Capsule Craft Room. To be honest, the thought of all the packing is rather exhausting. It has begun though only in a desultory sort of way. Doesn’t help that temperatures over the last… Continue reading Notes From My Office: July 2021
Card(s) of the Week: Eat, Drink and Be Rosemary
I’ve another double act of cards this week, a pair of herby cards. These used the Herb Garden stamp set from Simply Cards & Papercraft 214, plus the cocktail glass stamp from Simply Cards & Papercraft 212. I did have an idea, when I first saw the Herb Garden set (it also has dies) of… Continue reading Card(s) of the Week: Eat, Drink and Be Rosemary
Fat Quarter Sewing: The Orange Tablecloth
The last of the rainbow tablecloths, though probably not the last tablecloth I’ll make. Not when they’re so simple and straightforward and easy. I shall have to expand my fat quarter sewing into other, simple, patterns. The orange tablecloth This one used several quarters left over from the first yellow set I got back in… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Orange Tablecloth
Remembering Reads: The One Hundred and One Dalmations
One of the more dangerous side-effects of having to organise or pack away books is rediscovering books you’d forgotten you had or which you’d misplaced and hadn’t been able to find, and starting a reread. I can’t remember why now, but a little while ago I was trying to find Dodie Smith’s The One Hundred… Continue reading Remembering Reads: The One Hundred and One Dalmations
Card(s) of the Week: The Owl and the Elephant
There are two cards this week, mainly because they're similar in style. When I made the black and white elephant card last month, I liked it so much I used one of the other stamps from the same Mindful Moments set from Creative Stamping 93 to make another such card. Well, two, because then I… Continue reading Card(s) of the Week: The Owl and the Elephant
The Simplest of Simple Cheese Puffs
This follows in the grand tradition of Delia Smith’s How to Cheat at Cooking. It’s one of my favourite recipe-books, partly because there’s no shame in being lazy and using ready-made ingredients like pastry. This recipe does not, specifically, come from it, but I doubt I'm the first to have made cheese puffs in this… Continue reading The Simplest of Simple Cheese Puffs
The Last Week of (This) Lockdown
Unless something drastic changes over the next seven days, my Return to the Office begins in earnest next week. As such, I’ve been trying to get back into the habit of at least drafting as many posts as possible well in advance. Like this one, which I drafted at the beginning of June, and which… Continue reading The Last Week of (This) Lockdown
Card of the Week: The Crafter’s Card
My card of this week is a more recent make, though with a stamp set I’ve had since Christmas and which I rushed out on Christmas Eve to find the magazine. It was also my first attempt at masking in general, and with a post-it in particular. The stamp set (Crafter’s Companion’s Crafting with Friends… Continue reading Card of the Week: The Crafter’s Card
A Stitch in Time: The Peacock Cushion
With an imminent move coming up, I had thought to write about what I am calling my Capsule Craft Room. But that isn’t ready yet, so will have to keep for a later date. Instead, and like the Remembering Reads I’ve recently started, I thought it’d be good to share some previous crafty makes. I… Continue reading A Stitch in Time: The Peacock Cushion
