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monica
England
Interests: knitting, reading, sewing, crochet, quilting, embroidery, cinema. travelling
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67*2018 - scrap quilt -
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66**2013 - Lecien cushions -
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65**2013
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I think it's a lovely fabric. Non da uomini though. My husband would have said the same thing..
(But you totally could have got away with a top for the summer, I like flowery tops if you go plain underneath!)
Commented 7 days ago on green flowers at FuoriBorgo
green flowers
Despite my best intentions, I've been hesitant to actually sew something for myself. It isn't the sewing, rather the step before that scares me a fair bit: to cut up all that adult-sized yardage from beautiful fabrics always seems so momentous. If the garment turns out not to fit properly, in ...
yes, I like the hair in the profile pic too. YOu don't look like a mushroom; anyway mushrooms are nice... some are even 'magic'!!
(And I bet that after a few days you're happier with it?)
Commented 7 days ago on Haircut Day at the scent of water
Haircut Day
I told the hairdresser I wasn't sure if I liked it, which is Megan-code for dear god, I look hideous. Mushroom, bowl, take your metaphorical pick. We're not watching tele because there is nothing on. Iona and Nathan are discussing best Avenger attack strategies. Eilidh's taking pictures of h...
you do find the best poems. Have you ever thought of compiling an anthology? I'd buy it....
Commented 7 days ago on Happy Mother's Day at the scent of water
Happy Mother's Day
The Peace of Wild Things When despair grows in me and I wake in the middle of the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace o...
yup. My thursdays are like that. Urgh.
They don't tell you these things at anti-natal class.
Commented 7 days ago on The drive takes longer than the game. at the scent of water
The drive takes longer than the game.
Tuesdays are drive-a-lot days. An hour's trip in rush-hour to get Iona to her netball game then home again to take Eilidh up to dance. Warren picks Iona up on his way home, and I race back to light the fire and get dinner on and back again to pick Eilidh up. Or Warren does, if he and Iona hav...
64**2013
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excellent. the old ways are often the best.
Commented May 10, 2013 on hydraulics at FuoriBorgo
hydraulics
(Little Splashes rain jacket with the belt loops I added in action: I'd say they were a much needed adjustment!) Twice a year Tom with one, or two or all three kids, hikes up the hill following the old pipe that connects our water for the garden to the collection tank in the w...
and that is why you have brothers, right? Although I like your answer much better... but I'm a mum, I"m 40 something and I know exactly what you meant.
English Pear. Lovely. One day she'll look back and she'll appreciate it.
And wabi sabi? beautiful.
Commented May 9, 2013 on wabi sabi at the scent of water
wabi sabi
Wabi sabi, a Japanese concept of beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. When I rush in the rain and fall on my slippery, rotting, deck, beauty is not a word that comes to mind. When I take out my camera, I get their point. Eilidh's assistant Japanese teacher, on excha...
63**2013 - Nani Iro / Tova dress -
Posted May 9, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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I had a similar salad when I was in Italy at Easter and it was delicious!
Commented May 9, 2013 on an aromatic salad of spring blossoms at FuoriBorgo
an aromatic salad of spring blossoms
Although I spend 676 hours in the kitchen a year, my favorite culinary time is when I'm out the house, in the garden. Looking at what grows there in all the particulars - the texture, the colors, the aromas, the beauty of the plants at different stages of growth - always fills me with a spec...
62**2013
Posted May 8, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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my mum almost died of scarlet fever when she was a child... so it's something that scares me so much too...
I'm so glad she's better. So so glad.
Commented May 6, 2013 on scarlet fever at FuoriBorgo
scarlet fever
The other week, Rebecca got scarlet fever: she woke up not feeling her best, and by evening her ears and throat were aching so much that she wouldn't take a sip of water even though she was running a high fever. The following afternoon she broke out in a rash. By then, I'd already heard the...
61**2013
Posted May 6, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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and did you?
(when there's a will there's a way!)
Commented May 5, 2013 on taking a better look at it at FuoriBorgo
taking a better look at it
I dragged my salvaged dresser out into broad daylight, and discovered that "dresser" is actually a pretty fancy word for this little table with one small drawer. Still, if I saw off the legs to make it a touch shorter, if I clean it and sand it, if paint it (white?) or polish it, if I get t...
60**2013 - mending -
Posted May 2, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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59**2013
Posted May 1, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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oh Julie, I can foresee a huge increase in the knitted rabbits population world wide... but I'm also very glad you'll still be knitting them too. They'll always be the special ones!
(make sure you charge their real worth though!!)
Commented May 1, 2013 on A little knitting news at Little Cotton Rabbits
A little knitting news
Thanks so much for the nice welcome back. Getting so out of touch does feel strange to me when blogging has been such a part of my life for nearly seven years. The list writing is definitely helping me order my thoughts but lists are not the only thing I have been writing over the last week, I h...
gorgeous.
She sounds great.
Commented May 1, 2013 on Eleven years old! at Uncommon Grace
Eleven years old!
Today my firstborn is eleven. Wow, that went fast. One year and she'll have all the candles in the birthday ring lit! Two years and it will be teen. I can't even say how I love this shining-eyed, poised, mature, funny girl. Although every year in childhood is one of transformation and chan...
wow.
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Commented Apr 30, 2013 on The Meaning of Life as I Know it Right Now: A Letter to Helen at the scent of water
The Meaning of Life as I Know it Right Now: A Letter to Helen
Helen Lehndorf is a New Zealand poet, yoga instructor, craftswoman, gardener and all round über-creative. Among other things. She is the current visiting artist at Massey University in Palmerston North and likes to take pictures of mattresses in op-shops. She blogs here. When I wrote this post...
58**2013
Posted Apr 30, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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how gorgeous! Ma che bel momento insieme.
And hair envy... yes I understand that. (from a straight/dark haired to another... sigh)
Commented Apr 29, 2013 on while at the sewing machine together at FuoriBorgo
while at the sewing machine together
"We should really also give her something store-bought," said Rebecca, breaking a long concentration spell during which only the irregular stitch-stiiitch-stitch sound of the sewing machine, which she was learning to operate at a slow speed, could be heard. "But why?" I replied. "Nothing we ...
57**2013
Posted Apr 29, 2013 at {quilt} while you're ahead
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they're pretty fabaroony!
(and how productive have you been... been ill is not so bad if so much knitting can be achieved! not that I wish you NOT to get better...)
Commented Apr 27, 2013 on Done and done-er at the scent of water
Done and done-er
I promised my girls I would make them knitted slippers eons ago. Eons later we chose yarn and buttons, and eons after that I finally got them done. I used Susan's pattern because it's easy and looks good, my favourite combination. Anyone who knows my girls will be able to tell at a glance wh...
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