Hello! I hope you are having a nice weekend so far.  I don't have much to share here, really. Just some daisies in a jar. And ferns to accompany them.  I'm working on a big-ish project that involves lots of embroidery, and above you can see a little bit of it. Some white sprigs stitched…

I found some forget-me-nots while pulling out weeds in the vegetable garden, so they became my latest all-over embroidered pattern. Hope you've had a lovely long weekend, if you're in NZ and had Labour day off work. This is a new favourite song of mine. + + + + + + + + + +…

I finished a project this week that has been waiting a long time for some attention. Searching through my blog archives, I see it was actually begun in 2012. (The niece for whom it was intended received something else for her birthday!) I guess I was pretty confident about my running stitch enthusiasm, because in…

We have two rhubarb plants in the garden at the moment, and they've really taken off in the last month or so. That's how i knew it was time to make some dessert, using this recipe: rhubarb and strawberry shortcake. It's been a favourite of ours for a few years now. Something about the tart…

Here are the treasures I brought home from this fabulous little fair on the weekend. I hadn't really planned on buying anything but then I couldn't resist. What a surprise.. The fabrics include soft grey wool – I was thinking it would be lovely to embroider on, or maybe make a coat for K next…

I made some time yesterday to finish some projects, including a set of needlebooks (I love making them) and I even had a chance to put a few things in my etsy shop. That poor old shop – it's so often neglected, despite my best intentions. My friend Nikki and I did some shopping at…

These photos were taken by the lovely Meg at Tea Pea – a beautiful wee shop here in Wellington. She asked if I would teach a class at the start of November and of course I said yes. At the class we'll be knitting a family of little creatures just like these.  Everything will be…

The kids and I went on an outing to Petone (an old part of the Wellington region situated on the northern shore of the harbour) to walk on the beach and mooch around the shops and cafes.  It's a beautiful bit of Wellington, and I always forget about how good it is until I get…