I bought these beautiful earrings from a local designer, Jess, who runs Aida Maeby. I'd been admiring her work for ages and was so thrilled to nab a pair of these, which are made from hand-painted ceramic discs with a little touch of gold metal. They jingle a little when worn, too, which is an added…

Hello! I hope you've had a good week. The big news around here is that Keira turns 13 today… 13! It feels a bit strange… mostly good, of course. It's lovely watching her grow older and adventure out into the world more and more with each passing year. But I found myself going through her baby…

Hello lovely readers! I hope you've had a good week.  Tom and I attended a beautiful wedding on the weekend and I managed to snap a quick picture of the inside of the marquee where the reception was held. The ceiling was draped in fabric bunting, which was made from strips of fabric torn and…

It feels like the days are turning ever so slightly – the afternoon light is more golden than it was last week and the mornings are cooler.  Perhaps inspired by that, I've started a new project to use up all the fabric scraps I can find. I have one of those big plastic storage containers…

I think I write about tansy this time every year – we have a plant growing beside the washing line and it's something nice to contemplate when hanging out the laundry in the morning. I also try to embroider a portrait of the flowers every summer, and you can see this year's effort in the…

I knitted some colourful rainbow-striped socks over the new year – much of the work was done while camping, in fact. Even though I don't usually choose bright colours for the things I make, I really enjoyed making these, especially the way the stripes look a bit like they've been coloured in with a crayon.…

Hello! Somehow it's now February, and so the year really has properly begun. In this post I wanted to show you a few things completed recently, and one just begun.  = = (from top) = = + + I found a patchwork panel piece in a secondhand shop, and had to rescue it. It's been…

Hello from a balmy summer's evening in Wellington. It's unseasonably warm here these days, and not at all windy, which means we can have all the doors and windows open and listen to the cicadas at full volume. Today's post features a project I finished last year. I made a bag for my Mum and…

I recently had fun piecing together the leftover bits of fabric from other projects (the corners cut out from project bags, mostly) and making some free-form patchwork pieces. At the end of last year, I must have been on a grey-peach-green colour vibe!  I didn't have enough scraps for a whole quilt, so instead used…

Happy new year!  We've just returned home after our annual trip to visit family and friends, eat berries, swim in the sea, sleep in tents and get sunburned. It feels like we really had a proper break from normal life and are grateful for it. I hope you've had a good summer too, or winter,…