Wowzer! Awesome week in the Almond Rock household. There’s so much to fit into this post but I’ll try and keep it brief. Dinner at Salvos in Headingley was lipsmackingly delicious. I had a vegetarian calzone with spinach and aubergine and gorgonzola stuffed inside. Amazing. And then for pudding I ordered lemon cheesecake and it came …
Something unthinkable has happened… I’m not digging my fishy dress anymore. I still LOVE the fabric to death but I feel like I’m letting it down with how I’m using it. Is this a crisis of faith? I was too smug wasn’t I. Not posting pictures and dancing with glee about it. And now I …
This post starts and ends with Burda. First I want to shout “I bought a Burda Magazine”!! I finally got the courage up to buy one. I know it’s only £4.75 but I’ve never seen more than one pattern in there to make it worth buying and the lack of seam allowance/crap instructions scared me …
This weekend has been a busy one. Friday night out for dinner. Saturday a day at York Races with dinner out. And today was car booting, sewing and cooking a feast. So yeah, mostly revolving around food! The Races was excellent. It was York’s annual racing + music weekend. I went with the family plus …
Oooh yeah feeling fruity again… I’m obviously referring to my berry sewing fest from last week. I was making New Look 6962 view D without the tie. I used my raspberry chiffon and am extremely happy with how it turned out. Sadly I didn’t get to wear it anywhere but my hallway as Sewing Sarah, my sewing class buddy, …
It’s nice to be surrounded by your hobby with good happy little reminders that make you smile and your eyes widen as you get a bit giddy. It’s kind of how I feel reading lovely people’s sewing blogs but other things trigger this too. Why the focus on this (probably obvious to everyone) obsession? Well …