Blog entries - October 2006

Dressing Up

Shelley — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:23:21 +0100

I made myself a new Hallowe’en costume this year. Twelfth century instead of my usual nineteenth.

The costume has two parts - an underdress (chemise) and an overdress. The underdress is plain muslin with a high neckline and close-fitting, extra long sleeves that cover my wrists. The overdress is dark green cotton with lighter green cotton lining in the sleeves which are close...

A Jane Austen Fancy Dress Tea Party

Shelley — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 03:18:48 +0100

... Or two.

I’ve added some new pictures to my photos page. All the pictures are from a couple of tea parties we had over the summer. We made all the dresses and I did my best to make sure each one would be a little different. It was a lot of fun to see everyone all dressed up at the parties. A few people even did up their hair in Recency-ish styles. After tea we walked dow...

Beginning

Shelley — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:15:07 +0100

Here is my progress so far on the Easy Lace Mesh Triangle. I’m not really sure how long I’ve been working on this now. There were about two inches last night and I spent a couple of hours on it today. Right now it grows pretty quickly but I imagine that it will slow down considerably as it gets wider. The pattern is pretty easy to memorize as long as I start the row correctly. The m...

Adventures in Fusing

Shelley — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 03:10:31 +0100

Last weekend I took the “Tulip Party” class with Melody Johnson. She was a great teacher - fun and full of smiles and funny stories. Her hand-dyed fabrics were so neat and meant that everyone’s quilt top would develop differently. {reamore}Working from the pattern we traced out all the shapes for the background and tulips then carefully cut out the shapes fro...

So ... I'm Exploring with a Mac

Shelley — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:02:21 +0100

Today after work we cleared off my desk and set up the mini. Rob created a special widget for me - a recipe finder. You wouldn’t believe how many recipes there are for hot cross buns.

Now I have signed up for .mac and I’m starting my own little website. Pretty cool. My next challenge is to pick a picture to replace the default on this template.
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