There's nothing like...

•  Eating juicy ripe raspberries straight from the canes.

•  Spending time with good friends.

•  Sewing clothes for those you love.

Fabric was shibori dyed by me many years ago.
Pattern was drafted by me.

Doilies purchased from the op-shop

Crochet butterflies off an ebay buy many years ago.

I hope your day was filled with as much joy as mine.

The Oops Skirt

 It's an Oops skirt because I was making this for Fern.

I drafted out a quarter circle skirt pattern piece.

Then started cutting.

Oops only could cut 3 quarters!

 The fabric was from the opshop and wasn't a full width.

I did manage to piece together a waistband.

 Lilly is very happy with her new skirt.

Lilly has lost her first two teeth, just in time for Christmas.

I'm singing "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"

Fern is less than impressed that Lilly got the skirt.

 The lace and doilies were also op-shop finds.

We have some great op-shops around here.

I couldn't resist!

Uninvited and unwanted visitors

 I thought we had rain hitting the roof of the shed.

No, just grasshoppers! 

The locust bands have hit us.

They are all over town.

 Covering the front of my car and windscreen.

A couple hit me in the face, they hurt!

Pete and James couldn't go for their bike ride yesterday.

They kept getting hit by the hoppers.

Devouring everything green.

At least they shouldn't trouble anything left of the crops, after the flooding rains we had last week.

They prefer to eat nice green plants, like our grass and veggies.

Years of drought and finally it looked like a good year.

Only to be hit with mice, masses of rain and locust.

Give Away!!! Make It Perfect - Australian Only

Make It Perfect

21 Easy Patterns for sewing

Women's and Children's clothes

By Toni Coward.

I have the above book to give away.

To enter leave a comment on this blog post and be a follower of this blog.

Draw date: 30th December.

To get an extra chance to win this book,

 post about the give away on your blog.

Send me the link and I'll enter you twice in the draw.

The sizing in this book is, for children 5 and under.

The women's sizing is to Bust 106.5cm (42 inches)

 The patterns are all designed for quilter's cotton.

This is a heavy book to send in the mail.

So the give away is only open to Australian readers.

It's my 4 year Blog Birthday.
Four Years ago I started this blog!
With this BLOG post.
Wow How Lilly has grown.
I've had over 153,771 visitors.

And this is the 902nd post!
I didn't know I could write that much.