Here’s where it began. I started doing some sewing because a few clothes didn’t work any more. And I found I liked the results. My normal sewing levels are around attaching name tapes to clothes. Occasionally badges to judo outfits. Not much more. I did learn to do backstitch (making a nice strong seam) in …
Category archives: Eco
Making
Over the time I’ve been reading blogs, I’ve discovered that whatever your passion, you’ll find plenty of others eager to share their ideas – successes, failures, tips and so on. It doesn’t seem to matter what the interest is – science experiments you can do at home, knitting patterns for tiny babies – there’s plenty …
Sweeping clean
Remember all that spring cleaning earlier in the year? It kind of ground to a halt. But we’re trying to get going again – or at least, a bit more clean and tidy. A new broom sweeps clean, we’re told – and when you’re sweeping the same mess (or variants on it), sometimes you just …
Down in the fibres
This week’s spring cleaning activity: carpet cleaning. Hire a machine that swooshes foamy stuff on your carpet and hoovers at the same time. Having never done this before, I was a bit unsure about how it would go. Having done one and a bit rooms yesterday, and the same today, my arms are reminding me …
Rethinking souvenirs
I am looking at the last few boxes to tackle, up in the attic. These are the difficult ones. The clear out has been going well. Lots of paring down to what we need – and for those things where it’s harder to let go of them, at least some thinning of what we hold …