I had a wonderful time, it's a bit hard being back at work now.
Wednesday, 20 November 2024
Holidaying in Brisabne
Saturday, 12 October 2024
Things Here Lately
From the travel files
- The Scout and I had a weekend away in Coromandel town. We booked into a lovely Airbnb, that had chooks (fresh eggs), friendly dogs, a goat and cat. Lovely little garden nooks and garden art too. We ventured into the morning market, ate out and just relaxed, read and walked.
From around my neighbourhood
- Spring is upon, I love it when the flowering crabapple and acacia trees are in bloom
From the sewing room
- This is the Kingfisher top from The Sewing Revival. Perfect for those smaller pieces of fabric.
From the garden
- Slim pickings this time of year, the jasmine gets foraged from the coastal banks of my neighbourhood walkways, as does the pink Queen Anne's lace. I'm currently topping up the flower beds with fresh soil, and have lots of zinnias and new to me summer flowers sprouting away from seeds.
Happy weekending to you all.
Tuesday, 17 September 2024
A New Coat - Simplicity 8554
The pattern is Simplicity 8554, which is an unlined coat in varying lengths.
I had hoped to make view A, the long duster style version, but unfortunately, I didn't have enough fabric. I settled for View B, mid length , with the front flaps. Size 14, based on my measurements.
Because it was unlined, and the fabric frayed easily, I bound all the seams with bias binding . The underside of the collar and flaps is a scrap of printed voile from the stash. In a rather risqué move, I omitted the pockets , I felt they would just flop and not sit nicely, and I'm pretty much just going to wear it with jeans anyway. I also sewed up the side slit . Belt instructions in the pattern are wrong, but it's easy enough to work out what you need to do. I'm probably not going to wear it done up too often, I'm worried it'll give off dressing gown vibes😂 looking forward to wearing this as a transeasonal layering piece. Not looking forward to the ironing it seems to require.
Fabric is a deep raspberry linen eucalyptus blend(impossible to photograph accurately)gifted to me by a friend.
Monday, 29 July 2024
Hawkes Bay Holiday
View from Te Mata Peak |
Sunrise Hut |
Heading up to Armstrongs Saddle |
Looking through the Beech forest |
We spent a couple of days wandering around Napier and Hastings, taking in the beautiful art deco buildings that were built after the terrible Napier earthquake of 1931. We went up Te Mata Peak, but unfortunately fog hindered the stunning views we should have seen.
It was to good an opportunity not to hike somewhere new while visiting the Hawkes Bay, so we decided to go to the Ruahine Ranges and walk the Sunrise Hut track.
We didn't have a lot of visibility of the surrounding valleys due to low clouds. However about an hour after our arrival at the hut, the cloud lifted and we were able to venture along the ridge to Armstrong Saddle, sight of a plane crash back in 1935.
As usual lots of mosses, lichens and fungi captured my attention.
After a rather rough nights sleep, we were up early to see the sunrise. Not quite as impressive, as we'd hoped, and rather cold but with everyone from the hut up and watching and chatting, it was quite a cheerful start to the day.
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