Please don’t think of me as terrible birthday brat but I wanted to share details of day 3 from my long weekend of celebrations. I still have one more day to go before I head back to reality and another press day on Tuesday. My family weren’t free to catch up until the Saturday after …
Sometimes an idea for a dress sticks with you. I have a wonderful and annoying job where I constantly search for fabric for the magazine. Mostly the thrill of featuring the prettiest fabric in the magazine is enough but a lot of the time I become obsessed with getting some for myself. Like the cover …
“So what did you do this weekend?” “Oh I went shopping in London with 50 strangers off the Internet and we took over a Lebenese restaurant. What did you do?” I want to say that this weekend’s meetup in London was so tremendous that I’m finding it hard to describe. I tried to summarise proceedings …
First up my giveaway! Let’s announce this bad boy. Random number generator has chosen….. Congratulations!! Send your postal address to me at almondrock.wordpress@gmail.com and I’ll arrange delivery. Moving on. My love affair with New Look 6808 continues. I cooked up the idea of adapting it to use buttons at the back quite a while ago …
Well you can all guess where I’ve been today! Thanks to a facebook competition from Fabrications I won a free ticket to the Knitting and Stitching Show. It was recently in London and Dublin and now in lovely Harrogate for the weekend. For those who don’t know the show covers knitting and stitching but way way more; felt-making, toy-making, shibori dyeing, jewellery-making, card-making, …