Blog entries - September 2011

A Red Skirt

Shelley — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:06:51 +0100

This skirt is made from the same pattern as the brown one I made last summer - the Jersey Garden Skirt from Sew Liberated - but full length so I can wear it even when the weather turns cool. I think it took me about an hour to sew from start to finish (including cutting out the pieces) and I have been wearing it ever since. I can see it being a regular feature of my fall wardrobe: simp...

A New Blanket for Abby

Shelley — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:42:15 +0100

I've been procrastinating on a few sewing projects lately so this morning I spent some time getting my sewing room tidied up and everything sorted out. In the process I came across a piece of denim and a pink cotton heart I'd set aside ages ago for making into a crate blanket for Abby and decided to work on that instead; my other projects will have to wait until tomorrow (Queen of p...

Breakfast

Shelley — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 22:49:33 +0100

Inspired by Jen: rolled oats with brown sugar and raisins, juice, tea

How I Spent My Weekend

Shelley — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:35:27 +0100

Looking back at it I had a busy weekend.

It started off with a class at the gym at a quarter past nine in the morning. Most of the time I'd rather sleep late on Saturdays but I was awake in plenty of time to get to the class and it was really lovely to be out walking around on a cool and sunny fall morning. One great thing about going to the gym first thing is that it gives m...

Lost and Found

Shelley — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:32:35 +0100

The cool weather we've been having lately has me thinking about wool. Not that I ever really stop thinking about wool but I'm thinking about it more. I'm pulling out old projects and thinking of new projects and trying to come up with projects for yarns I really love. I went through a pile of wooly goodness in the corner of my sewing room on the weekend an...

Fall

Shelley — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:46:20 +0100

Where did the weekend go? I know I did stuff (I have photographic evidence) but it seems like there should have been a lot more time in those two days. I know where yesterday went at least. The projected low for last night was zero so I spent most of the evening taking in everything...

Stung

Shelley — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:32:39 +0100

I went to a class at the gym after work today. When I got home after the class Rob and Abby were in the living room sharing a bowl of popcorn. "Abby has an injury," said Rob and I noticed she was picking up one of her paws. Then Rob showed me a dish on the table.

There was a wasp in our house!

We're not sure when it got into the house but at some point Abby must have founde...

Squirrel Portraits

Shelley — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:19:16 +0100

I was looking for something to write about tonight and came across this series of squirrel portraits in my "Blog This" folder. They're from a few weeks ago. The squirrel in question is about two thirds the size of the adult squirrels we see at our feeder and I suspect is still a young guy. He was not as worried about me as the bigger squirrels tend to be and let me get quite c...

Pink Syrup

Shelley — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:47:22 +0100

I'm waiting for my canner to reach boiling. Inside are five jars of my very first jelly. Rhubarb jelly to be exact. I got some rhubarb from Rob's mum on the weekend to make strawberry rhubarb jam and of course I cut too much. I was going to just freeze all of the leftovers when I thought "why not try jelly?"

I made the juice last night and left the stewed fruit sitting...