Recovering my Couch

I bought this wonderful couch many years ago, and I still love it so I am trying to make a new slip cover (again- this will be round 4 I think)

To begin you make 30 metres of piping....

Then you start cutting up the cover fabric.  Every time I see that old sheet I used as a pattern I am taken back to the just married days.

Mittens for me

I finally got around to making something for me.  These are made with Royal Alpaca yarn from Gina Brown's.  The yarn was pricey but the mitts are really great.  So soft.  I use them as liners for my leather mitts.  Great for driving. (I still don't see why cars don't come with heated steering wheels as well as heated seats....)

A new row...10 I think

I have been following Bee in my Bonnet's Row Along and I am really liking it.  So this row is houses as you can see.

the instructions are very easy to follow and these little pieces soon turn into this:

or these...

so check it all out at Lori's blog or on flickr

My Journal

I had a great visit with my cousin and she insisted honestly, she did! ) that we clean up my old sewing room (which was in the basement )  It was a time of enlightenment for me.  I discovered that I have a habit of drawing in books.  There were sure a lot of them.  Some full some not but still quite a few.  So I thought I might share some of what I've done here.

It seems I'm quite addicted to this sort of thing.

Flowers for being

My Mister brought home flowers for me on the weekend.

Ahhh...

Christmas Presents 2012

I just had to brag.  My DD did an amazing thing for me for Christmas.  She gave me some beautiful hand made spoons.  Her uncle-in-law turns and carves them each individually and they are wonderful.  Everytime I am at her house I admire them.  Sooo on a recent visit to her uncle she procured some for me...Yeah, yeah, yeah, I am blessed.

Then my son found this cool egg timer.  It is so cute.

The Christmas Stockings fini

Wow, Caroline worked hard,
Look at these...

the one on the right is the one we/she was working on at my house.  Now they are done.  Too cute.