It's raining a lot here today so I'm catching up with jobs at home. Thanks for your kind comments re. the Echino fabric and the concert in my last post. If you're looking to buy Echino in NZ, there are helpful links in the comment section here. The concert was amazing! It was…

    My Mum went to Wellington recently, and brought me back some gorgeous new linen by Japanese design company Echino. I love these new prints, (and their previous styles, too) and couldn't resist making a winter bag with some of it. This will be useful for carrying around all my daily stuff, and is…

    This is a new design I've been working on lately- the long-eared rabbit. It's one of those things I was thinking about for a long time before he materialised. Maybe from back when I did this embroidery last year. In any case, I knew I wanted to make an old-fashioned bunny with extra-long…

I made this new top over the weekend, with the idea of having a loose, drapey garment to wear over plain dresses and long-sleeve merino tops in winter. At least, that's my excuse, but really I wanted to see if I could make something to wear from something very new (the black drapey chiffon-ish fabric)…

    When I was staying out at my parents' place last week, I found Mum's copy of this book- Simple Knits for Cherished Babies by Erika Knight. I remembered those golden months when I was pregnant for the first time, and knitted every single pattern in that book for Arlo, in cream merino, I…

I found these pictures in a second-hand shop in town, intending to use the chunky glass frame for a print I bought on Etsy. But when I'd cleaned the glass at home, I realised how cool the original photos inside were. They're individual photographs of alpine plants, carefully positioned on a piece of black paper…

      Some pink anemones I picked on the weekend are nearly ready for the compost heap, but first I captured them with my camera and then my needle and thread. The linen version was made up into a make-up case. Or a case for anything really- I have one that I keep my…

  I've made a few avian-inspired things this week: brooches with embroidered birds and a feather locket. The brooches/pins were made by working tiny applique stitches onto layers of wool felt. The embroidered linen was kindly sent to me by Beryl, and was originally used as table linen, but the fabric was very worn and…

  Feeling light today. The cafe work has finished for me and I'm feeling grateful to have time and motivation for my creative work. The school holidays have also finished, and the children were happy to go back to school. Got lots of washing, shopping and small jobs done in preparation. And there's a windy…

  This is a new winter cardigan I sewed for Keira from an adult-size fairisle sweater which was beautifully made but had completely worn-out elbows. I found it at a flea market and saw that it was made from pure Shetland wool, so of course I had to get it to recycle. To make the…