Author: Thimberlina

Dewsbury Makes Linky Party!

Published by

On the 6th February the Yorkshire Spoolette’s gathered in Dewsbury for their 2nd meet up.  We had a great day and came away with bags full to brimming with scrumptious fabric. Once the shops closed we hit Weatherspoon and it was then that I set a challenge for everyone to make something in the next month with something bought on the day.   So here we are!  A linky party of all the gorgeous garments made, and Amanda’s dishcloth! If you didn’t join us but have made something with fabric bought from Dewsbury please add your link.   Links can be from blog posts, instagram or just photos.   It’s easy to do, so link away!! The link will be open until 7th April – another month to get sewing and share with us your fab makes! If anyone knows why you can’t view the pictures without clicking the link please let me know as it’s driving me crazy trying to fix it!!

I Made A Vlog

Published by

About a month ago I’d not even heard of vlogging, and now egged on by some of my lovely readers I made one today! I’ve uploaded it to You Tube, so if you want to see what I’ve been up to today click HERE .  Hope you can understand the Yorkshire accent! An honest opinion would be appreciated, but I’ve realised already that I won’t be giving up my day job!  

#SundaySevens 53

Published by

Hello! Hope you’ve all had a lovely week!  I have!  It’s writing my Sunday Sevens and reflecting on my week that make me realise how lucky I am having an extra 2 hours in the day to everyone else – I must do cos I don’t see how else I could fit everything in! Natalie from Threads and Bobbins thought up the Sunday Sevens over 18 months ago as a way of posting snippets of your week that maybe wouldn’t warrant a blog post all on their own.  You don’t have to sign your life away to join in – just jump in and out as you please – or go for the long haul like me.  It’s my Sunday Sevens Anniversary this weekend and I’ve not missed a week! 1   I started my week with good intentions of running 3 time.  Monday went well but then I started with the sorest throat you can imagine and it’s lingered all week.  Hopefully I’ll be able to get out more next week. 2   Took …

Time For Teal

Published by

Kate who blogs at Tall Tales from Chiconia is co-ordinating the making of a quilt to raise money for Ovarian Cancer Australia.  There’s information on her blog if you’d like to read more and maybe contribute a block too – she needs 36 blocks altogether!  The theme for the block is “Time for Teal”  – so we’re making teal coloured blocks around the afternoon tea theme.  Kate also making a Teal Ribbon block which is the symbol to raise awareness of ovarian cancer. Kate organises a F2F block swap where basically each of the 12 members make 3 12″ blocks per month for a person who’s month it is.  I’m really not explaining this very well, but Pat was one of the ladies, and she sadly lost the fight with ovarian cancer which has lead to the Time For Teal quilt being created.   You really need to head to Kate’s blog who explains it all much better than me. Initially for me the first thing I had to do was go shopping.  Being a very …

Extra

Published by

I think if I didn’t offer an explanation for this one, only my mum would guess the connection for this week’s photo challenge. On Wednesday I worked a 12/12 shift, so should have finished at midnight.  Unfortunately due to the nature of my work  we don’t alway finish on time and last night was one of those times.  I left work 1 1/2 hours after my planned finish time.  So a very tired Thimbers climbed into her car after working an “extra” 90 minutes on top of her 12 hours.  On a positive note the extra dosh earnt will be spent on an extra glass of Mateus Rosé in Portugal! Linking in again with the 52 Week Photo Challenge from: Nanacathydotcom Rainbow Junkie The Aran Artisan Wild Daffodil

A quick way to make a thread looper

Published by

I’ve made thread loopers in the traditional way by hand.  But usually when I get to the stage of making the looper it means I’ve nearly finished whatever I’m making and I want a quicker way to do it.  That’s when the machine stitched looper comes in.  I also find it stronger than the more conventional way. Here’s a hand stitched one I made when I attended the GBSB Sewing With Silk class.  This was the first hand stitched one I’d ever done and wasn’t too neat and also a bit too big. My next attempt was much neater, but just as time consuming: When I made my recent colour blocked dress I went back to my favourite lazy way and used the machine and had it done in about 2 minutes! Here’s how….. Take a long length of matching (or contrasting!) thread and fold it in half, then twice more so you will have 8 strands of thread: Set your machine to the widest zig zag stitch.  The stitch length doesn’t matter as you’ll be pulling …

Vogue 8805

Published by

“Why oh why did I leave it so long!!??” We’ve all said it. More than once. But we never learn. It’s not that often is it that we unearth a UFO, finish it and aren’t please.  I mean, if it was that bad in the first place it would’ve ended up in the bin not chucked in the corner. So a while ago I borrowed V8805 of my real life sewing buddy Jeanie. Jeanie’s the one who got me going again, so to speak.  She’s made umpteen versions of these. For my first I used up some left over denim.  The dark blue was from my GBSB capri pants and the raspberry was from my Mexican dress and also a peg bag.   You might even recognise pinky red denim from other blogs – I’ve seen Jeans on The Prolific Project Starters blog and also a cute little dress only a couple of weeks ago on Making and Markings blog.  (I’ve just looked and Minerva still have it in stock).  In fact it was Camilla’s recent post that reminded …

#SundaySevens 52

Published by

A little late but we won’t dwell on that!  After all, there’s no rules in Natalie’s Sunday Sevens!  Head over to Threads & Bobbins if you want to read more about it, and join in too! As usual I didn’t think I’d done much stuff this week.  I’d worked an extra 2 shifts (to pay towards my girlie golfing trip!) so there wasn’t much time left for fun and craftiness.  But I still couldn’t narrow it down to 7 photos! 1   One of the ladies from the golf club has given me a selection of hand crocheted doilies. How gorgeous are they.  There’s 9 altogether in different sizes. 2  We had sunshine on the golf course! 3   And pizza at Pizza hut!  I just love their stuffed crust.  We don’t go very often as I think it’s a bit over priced, but soooo nice. 4   I’ve cracked on with my UFO.  Just this neckline to finish, which will hopefully happen today. 5    Learning to embroider at the roadside thanks to Craftsy! …

Tension

Published by

Today I joined in a fun team comp at the golf club.  It might be a fun comp but we still wanted to win!!  There was quite a few tense moments wondering if the putts would drop. Did it…………… No! Then in the clubhouse the tension mounted as we waited for Lady Captain to announce the winning team.  We came joint first, but ended up 2nd  on a count back (golf speak.  If the putt would have dropped we’d have won!!   Linking in again with the 52 Week Photo Challenge from: Nanacathydotcom Rainbow Junkie The Aran Artisan Wild Daffodil    

The Splendid Sampler

Published by

I first heard about The Splendid Sampler on Poppy in Stitches blog earlier in the month.   One of the big things I want to do in 2016 is make a quilt so I headed straight over to find out more. Then Margaret from Crafty Creek made a block too, and they started popping up all over Instagram. Basically, two 6 inch blocks are released each week and eventually you’ll end up with 100 squares all ready to be sewn into a quilt!  Seemed simple enough. I needed to go shopping.  I’m not a quilter and although I have a moderate stash it’s nearly all dressmaking fabric. For my initial shopping spree just to get me going I bought 4 half metre pieces. Armed with 3 of the fabric pieces, the instructions and my new big quilting ruler I was all set. I soon discovered the pale spotty fabric was a bit flimsy. So changed the spotty fabric for the 4th fabric I’d bought… Yup, much better.  It was soon sewn up in no time…. And I’m in …