Author: Thimberlina

#SundaySevens 51

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Yup, I’m late again, but I’m only just catching up with Tuesday and really don’t know what day it is!  Those nights shifts again playing havoc with my world! Sunday  Sevens is the brain child of the lovely Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins.  I think there’s quite a few of us now going in, I wonder if he thought it would take off like it has when she first thought it up?? 1     A late entry from the week before. I was looking for a pic of me at my BIL wedding and this was the best I could find!  My dress was a bargain at House of Frazer – £10.50!  More than what a pattern would cost!  think my niece’s dress on the right might have costed a bit more! 2   Rory our cheeky cat – I didn’t know she drank out of glasses! 3  The first pop of colour in the garden. 4    A trip to Harrogate meant I could go to one of my favourite real life fabric …

Home

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It’s 20 years this year’s since I ‘left home’ properly. Properly, as in I had a narrow escape and came back after the first attempt! It’s still home when I’m there, and I get roped into stuff just the same and i love it! Thanks mum & dad! Linking in with the weekly photo challenge from: Wild Dafodil  Rainbow Junkie  Nanacathdotcom The Aran Artisan

The Brooklyn Hoodie by SBCC

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In January I took park in a Giveaway on Instagram hosted by Skinny Bitch Curvy Chick to win their latest pattern – The Brooklyn Hoodie. I’m a big fan of their patterns so was over the moon when I discovered I’d won.   It did take a few days for me to notice the PM in Instagram as I’d never had one before! Their patterns are drafted for petites. At 5’4″ I always feels I’m somewhere in between – not quite a petite but not tall either. Previously I’m made their Lemoncello Cardigan (unblogged for some crazy unknown reason) so here it is at a Presentation Night when I was Lady Captain (the second time!): I’ve also made the Manhattan Pants and the Cabernet Cardigan.  Oh, and I’ve made a few of their free tonic t shirts too!   All the other patterns I’ve bought (except the free one of course!!).  The paper patterns come printed on proper paper in a plastic A4 folder which is really neat. As soon as I won the hoodie pattern …

Competition Results & #SundaySevens 50

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Sunday Sevens is late as we were at a wedding yesterday, so I thought instead of writing 2 posts, which seemed I bit daft, I’d announce the winner of the competition with this week’s Sunday Sevens. If there’s anyone who’s not heard of Sunday Sevens – it’s 7 ish photos of your week showing a bit more about what goes when you’re not sewing. Generally for me I’m either eating or working!  Invented by the lovely Natalie from Threads & Bobbins if you want to read more. Without further ado…………. The total mileage travelled by all the ladies from their Home to Fabworks Dewsbury was 671 miles!   The evening of the meet up I totted up the mileage and sent my mum a text of how far all the ladies had travelled.  I was quite amazed at the final total, and so was mum!  And even more amazed that some of you got quite close the the figure. The winner of the £25 voucher plus free P&P donated by Fabworks is Sam who guessed 666 miles.  Sam …

Don’t Forget To Enter The Comp’!

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Seventeen Yorkshire Spoolettes gathered last Saturday in Dewsbury.  Did you manage to come up with a guesstimate of how far we all travelled? If you’ve not why not have a complete random guess or have a look around the blogs for some clues.  There are 2 prizes up for grabs. The person with the closest answer in the UK will will receive a £25 voucher to spend at Fabworks, with free P&P.  Thankyou Fabworks! The person with the closest answer outside the UK will receive a surprise parcel from me. Leave your answer (in miles) below in comments – the total we all travelled to Dewsbury.   Please state if your are inside or outside the UK. Closing date is midnight GMT 14th February 2016 I’m sure you’ve all read lots of posts about our meet-up, but in case you didn’t here are links to my follow spoolettes blog posts about the day. Amanda from Sew Deputy Karen from Wakey Makes  – Karen’s First Ever Blog Post!! Hila from Saturday Night Stitch Margaret from The Crafty …

Brooklyn Preparation and a BIG ‘Thankyou’

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Remember my photo challenge ‘stitch‘ last week? I happened to mention how I’ve struggled to master the twin needle, to the point that I was planning smuggling a coverstitch machine into the house.  You guys gave me so much advice! Tonight I’ve been experimenting with stitch selection for my next project – The Brooklyn Hoodie from SBCC. I was looking for a stitch to flatten down the seams and give more of a rtw  feel to it. I preferred the left had stitch. Here’s the wrong side – I’d trimmed back the SA back as far as possible. Just as I was pressing a few buttons, I saw IT!!!! You could’ve knocked me down with a feather!!! Where did that come from???? Had it just appeared, or had it been hidden amongst this little lot all the time?? Well that was it. I pressed the button, found a twin needle and another spool and in no time at all I produced this little lot!! How pretty!! And neat!! And easy!! Everything ran smoothly, I just …

Zero

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The Definition of a Duck in Cricket – when a batsman is out without scoring a run. .  We had to share out breakfast with the residents!  A Golden Duck – The term used for the score of zero when a batsman is out on his first ball without scoring a run. It’s usually a very long walk back to the changing room after scoring any sort of duck! (scoreboard at the top – When Yorkshire Under 13B thrashed beat Lancashire last summer and batsman number 6 scored a duck). Head over to Wild Daffodil’s blog where she’s joined forces with 3 other lovely bloggers who’ve created this weekly photo challenge.

#Sunday Sevens 49

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And sleep…….! What a week it’s been!  Last night I had the best night’s sleep I’ve had in ages.   I don’t know about you, but whenever I’ve something on my mind, or when I’m planning something, my mind plays tricks on me and I have the weirdest of dreams.  When I was at training school (almost 20 years ago) studying to be a paramedic they fed us well.  I dreamt I got so fat my (small) tattoo grew so big is spread and covered the whole of my body!! So you can imagine what I’ve been like this week with the Spoolettes meet up going round my head!  I wouldn’t mind if I was a worrier.  I’m not when I’m awake.  But it’s crazy what our subconscious minds gets up to behind our backs! Anyway, apart from having an amazing Saturday!  The best ever!! I did have a few other moments this week worthy of a photograph, so here we are, my Sunday Sevens as thought up by the lovely Natalie over at Threads and Bobbins….. …

The Yorkshire Spoolette’s 2nd Meet-Up

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Well, I needn’t have worried! All those restless nights were worth it! I even dreamt one night that I couldn’t even blog about today because I forgot to go! It wasn’t just me who was a bit nervous.  I mean, we hear it all the time on the news.  The dangers of meeting strangers online that might not be who you think they are!!  Gosh, if our kids had known what we’d  been up to today!! So at 10:30am I met with a lovely bunch of ladies, who did not feel like strangers at all, and we didn’t stop talking or shopping until 4pm tonight! We gathered together at Kenny’s Bistro – a newly opened cafe that’s done out lovely and very reasonable – 85p for a toasted currant tea cake!!  More money to be spent on fabric!! The staff were lovely and didn’t mind us rearranging the table and chairs so we could all gather round. We had a little fabric and pattern swap whilst I worked out some of the milages how far those on …

Stitch

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One of the things I’ve yet to master…… The twin needle!  I’ve had success on scraps of fabric when practising, but it’s the threading of the needles that I struggle with.  I’d rather re-thread my overlocker!  Every time I give it a go I can’t make the 2 spools behave nicely and generally the  in the seconds one jerks and snaps the thread. I have read the instruction manual 17 times and made several on observations on You Tube, but no no avail.  If you would like to add a link below, or any words of wisdom they would be greatly appreciated.     Feature photo (because as usual I am unable to just share one photo):  Does anyone else keep all their sample stitches when trying something new? Head over to Wild Daffodil’s blog where she’s joined forces with  3 other lovely bloggers who’ve created this weekly challenge.