Category: Sewing
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New pen holder
I said in yesterday’s drawing post that I’d been sewing and that it hadn’t gone well. Today I undid yesterday’s work and reworked it. I use a sort of bullet journal system to try and keep track of home stuff, and I needed a new pen holder (I’m honestly not sure I ever blogged the…
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2023 Makes Round-up
I’ve been making things, particularly recently, and just not getting round to blogging them. So I’m going to just do a quick round-up post so I get them on record! First up, the cushions that I bought when I bought my first house back in 2002 (I think?) finally gave up the ghost. They were…
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Inspiration
The Bloganuary Day 6 prompt is ‘Who is someone who inspires you and why?’, which is a pair of questions I find really surprisingly hard to answer. Again, as with yesterday I think there are two categories of people that you could pick from: people you know (parents, family etc) and people you don’t. I…
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Progress report
Having gone through and listed my ‘in progress‘ projects, I thought I’d have a bit of an update on where they got to after I had a week off! Not that I spent the whole week on them, obviously. We had a lovely trip into Oxford on Monday and went to the Museum of Natural…
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In Progress
It’s my birthday, and since we were supposed to be in Florida I’ve taken the next week off. Given that Clarkie wanted to play golf today and I had my flu jab yesterday, we’ve postponed exciting birthday trips until tomorrow – honestly, it seemed like things would be less busy too, so no harm done.…
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Refit
Bit of housekeeping: I have added Akismet to catch spam comments, which is working pretty well. Hopefully it doesn’t make commenting onerous – but I really don’t get all that many comments. I’m kind of loving the spam comments though. I think one of my favourites so far is ‘This blog was… how do I…
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Cuffed
After I finished my PhD I went back to an office job, with a boss who required smart clothes (no jeans) from his developers. After a little trial and error I worked out a ‘uniform’: smart trousers, white shirt, and whatever waistcoat or jumper I liked. Everything went with everything, so it didn’t matter what…
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Modification
Can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it, but we are members of the Women’s Cricket And Associates Golf Society (WC&AGS, for short). It was founded by members of the now-defunct Women’s Cricket Association, and mostly consists of retired cricketers. A couple of years ago, one of the members of the group died of bowel cancer. Her partner…
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Aiding daily practice
I’ve been trying to do some things every day. Nothing strenuous, just to build a few things into my daily routine. Stuff like Duolingo for languages, the tiny number of press ups I can actually do, a spot of meditation with the Headspace app. Pretty small things. Some things fit better than others. My Duolingo…
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Lock bag prototype
Last year I hit a pothole so hard on my 15 year old Trek 1000 that I put a dent in the back wheel. Rather than just replace the wheel (gears have changed in 15 years, hard to find compatible old stuff), I ended up buying a whole new bike. It’s lovely. I like it…
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Quietly clanking
Another post about a thing I’ve finished and hadn’t got to blogging. Both Clarkie and I have accumulated a whole lot of medals from various running races. I used to hang mine on the door to my study back in Brighton, and they clanked like hell when the door got shut but it didn’t matter,…
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Get there eventually
Remember this quilt? I posted about making it back in 2013. Well, I just finished sewing in all of the ends. Yes. Really. Don’t get me wrong, it’s seen a lot of use. The cashmere on the back is just beginning to go bobbly in places, and it’s faded from sitting on my office chair…