Morning all Well just a quickie today, I’m very pleased with the way the corset is turning out, the velvet is being a darling and not wrinkling up at all during sewing, and I thought I would just share a tip I use for transferring marking onto corsets. For the non-sewers, sewing patterns come with… Continue reading cheating at tailors tacks and more
Over the weekend, my sort of ex-father in law passed away, after being ill for awhile, although it still seemed very fast at the end. He was a lovely man and after the separation between myself and the children’s dad (his son) many, many years ago, he did his best to make sure I stayed… Continue reading Dedicated to Des x
Hello lovely internet people. just a quickie today, as we have some rather sad things going on with an extremely ill relative. I have not made the progress I would like on certain items, but when other things are more important then you re-prioritise. But I did have a last half of pumpkin in the… Continue reading the last of the pumpkin
morning all it’s a bit grey and drizzly here in lovely Birmingham today and has been for a few days actually, which is a bit of a shame as it was fireworks night last night (5th November), and Saturday when the main displays were being held it rained really heavily and was quite windy, a… Continue reading getting going on the corset
a big hello to everyone so I have been mulling over my outfit for Candy Box and spent an hour or so wandering around the material store, putting together a great selection of winter white materials. I didn’t want proper white as this can be a bit stark and cold looking, so I went for… Continue reading marks, set, making candy box outfit is go….
Good Morning everyone, well I’m afraid I’m a little too excited to bother much with food friday, I’m doing a ‘rich sticky ginger cake’ from the next section called Cakes and Gateaux. To be honest I wasn’t all that enthralled with this section, although a cake called forgotten gateau that gets put in the oven,… Continue reading white queen, here’s my chance
