Category Archives: Sewing

My Christmas present!

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Liz Plummer

This was my Christmas present to myself – an extension table for my Janome sewing machine.  I wish I’d got one years ago – it is wonderful!  I’ve already sewn some curtains together which was made much easier (as well … Continue reading →

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More dyed fabric … and a jacket!

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Liz Plummer

I have been slowly washing out more of the fabric.  In between buying some gorgeous teal coloured boiled wool/viscose fabric and making it into a jacket!  More later on that… I printed this piece of silk with corrugated cardboard (the … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year – and Bloggers Meet!

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Liz Plummer

Happy New Year to you all!  I don’t know where the last week went, I seem to have been sleeping a lot; we went up to Stoke to see my parents and on Monday,  I had a lovely day because … Continue reading →

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Stitching a Labyrinth

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Liz Plummer

This is some stitching I did a few weeks ago.  For a while now, I’ve been thinking of making something in a labyrinth design, and I pulled some hand dyed fabrics out of my shelves which seemed to work well … Continue reading →

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Subscribing to my blog and a new laptop bag!

Posted on July 19, 2008 by Liz Plummer

Thank you to Julie for letting me know that the rss button on the right of the header wasn’t working for some reason.  2 hours later, and by dint of deleting my Feedburner feed and creating another, it does!  I … Continue reading →

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Altering a silk wholecloth wallhanging….

Posted on April 13, 2008 by Liz Plummer

I think my design process goes in fits and spurts and sometimes emerges over several months and years I made this hanging from a piece of hand dyed silk… I started quilting it a year or two ago without much … Continue reading →

Posted in Dyeing, quilting, Sewing | 17 Comments