Season’s Greetings

Hope you all have a great festive season. See you in the New Year.

A visit to Morris and Sons in Melbourne and the end result.

When I go to Melbourne a visit to the wool store Morris and Sons is always on my agenda and on my last visit with my daughter we both popped into the shop.  I was going to buy some replacement pins for my Knit Pro needles that had broken.  The shop assistant informed my that…

A puzzling piece of sewing.

When we were in York on our visit to the UK I went to the York Quilt Museum to see a Kaffe Fassett exhibition.  Unfortunately the day I went to see the exhibition the museum was closed to change over the exhibition to a new one.  I was really disappointed and decided that I would…

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick.

You may remember I made a dolly for my granddaughter one Christmas.  The doll was made from felt whereas I usually make dolls in calico.  While I was down in Melbourne I noticed that dolly was in the mending basket as she had suffered a bit of wear and tear.  I told my granddaughter that…

A repair job

Our next door neighbour asked me to do a favour for him.  He wanted me to repair two pictures he had. The pictures were very old and had been dropped at some stage.  The glass was broken and the backing was damaged.  I didn’t want to do anything to the actual pictures or frames as…

York Railway Museum . . . Tuesday travels

On a previous visit to York we visited the National Railway Museum but didn’t spend much time there, this time we spent most of the day in the museum and found there was still plenty to see although my husband was disappointed that Stephenson’s Rocket was not in operation this time. When we are on…