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 I finished this a couple weeks ago, a Petite Knits pattern with a round yoke. I used a hand dyed fingering weight yarn and a strand of moha...

  Blissful sewing……..this is the first piecing I have done since last year! It felt good and sounded good after oiling the machine.  The hum...

 I have been doing more reading and knitting than sewing of late, after reading Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly by Marie Bostwick got me bac...

 My ‘just one thing today’ was to finish these baby towels for great niece’s first baby. Terry cloth on the bolt is no longer available, the...

No Strangers Here by Carlene O’Conner murder mystery takes place on the Dingle peninsula in Ireland a lot of twists and 27 year old secrets ...

 As I was drinking my coffee and gazing out the window making my mental to do list for today (if it’s a mental list and I don’t follow throu...

 I’ve only been working on this since Christmas it’s just a flannel nightgown.  Make the bodice pretty with fancy stitches and twin needle p...