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Moyo Directory and Diverse Manners 16 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
I’m looking forward to next Monday – Module 2 of the pattern course, The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, is starting! I really enjoyed Module 1 and it got me designing again, drawing litt...
Patterns and blogging experiments 21 Jul 2013 | 01:34 am
I’m just experimenting with using the WordPress app on my android tablet and if it is successful it will hopefully encourage me to get blogging again! The ease of adding photos will be the crunch poi...
Follow me on Feedly 23 Jun 2013 | 05:40 pm
Just after I wrote yesterday’s blog post, I read an update from Feedly about how they had altered their service to provide a seamless transition from Google Reader. They now have a button for bloggers...
Pattern crazy 23 Jun 2013 | 02:14 am
Apologies for the lack of blog posts. I’ve been busy with the pattern course I talked about last month. Module 1 has finished but I’m still enthused by it and busy creating patterns and coming to gr...
Pattern course and a bit of colour! 14 May 2013 | 04:27 pm
For the last few weeks I’ve been doing an online course called The Art and Business of Pattern Design. I decided to embark on this because I noticed that a lot of my artwork consists of lots of overal...
Can you use an old Singer sewing machine? 13 Apr 2013 | 03:22 pm
Okay, this is a different sort of post than usual, but still textile related!! My husband is involved with a local charity called Health Help International which sends various supplies/support to Zam...
Great British Sewing Bee and some upcycling fun! 12 Apr 2013 | 03:30 pm
I hinted in earlier posts that I’d been doing more dressmaking and upcycling than quilting and dyeing recently, so I thought I’d tell you what I have been up to. I bought a secondhand Harris Tweed men...
What I’ve been reading online 17 Mar 2013 | 02:08 am
I started this post a while ago but yesterday the news came that Google is killing Google Reader in July. If you read this blog via Google Reader, there are a number of articles about the alternativ...
A couple of book reviews 18 Feb 2013 | 07:13 pm
Just before Christmas, Bloomsbury Publishing asked me if I would like to review a couple of their books. As soon as I saw the titles, I jumped at the chance. What the publishers say: The Vintage Pat...
January activities 28 Jan 2013 | 06:43 pm
This is what the garden looked like last week. The white stuff stayed there for a whole week (quite unusual for this area), but last weekend a warm front came in and we had torrential rain, thunder, ...
