swallows return

alice starmore.

Alice Starmore's fair isle patterns.

salvador dalí & walt disney

  

In 1946, Salvador Dalí and John Hench, a Disney studio artist storyboarded "Destino". A seventeen second animation test was all that came to be as the studio's financial constraints prevented the production from completion. Back to the vault it went until Walt Disney's nephew Roy, decided to revive it in 1999. The Parisian production department and 25 animators (!) deciphered the storyboards and completed the film.

dotted swiss jackets.

After over three years' hiatus, I've added a couple items to my Etsy shop. These quilted jackets were thought of when Aris was little more than the size of a kiwi fruit but then life (and the second baby) happened and, well, they just never came to be. I am happy to have finished them. Perhaps a sign of more to come...

liberty tana lawn bias tape

I have put one of my bias tape makers to use and ended up with two and a half yards of the stuff. The fabric is Liberty of London's tana lawn in "Betsy". This fabric is heaven! It presses so crisply - so nice to work with.

 

daisy.

Daisy is a harbour porpoise living at our Aquarium and she is just the sweetest thing. I'm pretty sure she makes every single visitor's day as she hovers in front of the viewing window "smiling" at everyone who stands with gleeful wonder in front of her.

bias tape maker

Going through and organizing my fabric and sewing supplies and apparently, I own four bias tape makers!

ginger cookies

Today, I made ginger cookies with my three year old. The perfect way to spend an afternoon for which I feel so lucky and grateful.

warm wool

This cold, wet, west coast weather makes me want some wool undergarments. These are from Ramblers Way.

colour work dilemma.

Colour scheme 1.

Colour scheme 2.

For a colour-work cardigan with cars and trucks (for the three year old).

marble race.

Our current favourite toy.