Makepeace McEvoy - Music Everywhere (Page 7)

The dress has a square neck, elbow-length sleeves, and lace, tulle, and ribbon trim.

Victorian inspiration

At the moment I have a lot of projects that aren't quite where I need them to be in order to post about them. The bead dish in the kitchen is still not quite dry (though we're getting there, and hopefully it will not only be

Circular piece of netting in yellow jute twine, with a thinner, lighter string coming from the middle (the toggle).

Football crazy

I didn't feel very well yesterday, which was most probably due to Sibyl getting herself slightly blocked. (If she gets seriously blocked I really do know about it; it is quite astonishing how ill one feels with a blocked stoma. This, however, was just a minor obstruction and

My ancient mother wearing the hat I recently knitted her (and a brown coat, and a very fuzzy grey scarf).

The knit edition

This seems like the ideal moment to talk about some of the knitting I've been doing recently; it has, after all, been taking up most of my free time. For a start, I've just finished the emerald green jacket I've been on with since

Alice, in bits, with accoutrements. You can't see very much of Alice; the box is pretty full of stuff

A perfect finish

First of all, I'm indebted to a lady on Mastodon called Marie-Louise (who I think is a francophone Canadian), who pointed out that I had the tension knob the wrong way round on Adelaide. It probably wouldn't have made a huge amount of difference in use,

The Inklette is shown lying down, with the shuttle. It is a flag-shaped wooden board with an assortment of pegs.

Adelaide, Adelaide

A rather damp (but cheerful) young postal worker arrived yesterday morning with a mysterious flat parcel, and as soon as I saw the label I realised I had Adelaide. I was quite surprised that she'd go into anything quite so flat, but once I got the box open,

Gisele (tiny box loom) is weaving a narrow trim in two shades of green.

Neat and trim

Well, she took a lot of painting; she and all her accessories got a full coat of Payne's Grey followed by most of a coat of silver (as in I didn't bother silvering the base, nor the inside of the roller, which is barely visible in

The medium regular cake and the small gluten-free cake sitting on baking parchment, having just been iced

Feeding the 150

Every month - well, almost every month; we do take a break in August, and in either December or January (it was December this time) - our church does a bring-and-share lunch after the service. When there were only around 30 of us, this wasn't complicated. There was

A few rows of netting being made with a netting needle, using a short ruler as the gauge (mesh stick).

Net benefits

So... the knitting is going like gangbusters; Gisele is being painted (she and all her accessories have now had their first coat of Payne's Grey, which for those who don't know is very nearly black, and I shall be going over that with silver to give

The Little Loom Kit from Gina-B Silkworks. It comes in quite a small cardboard box.

The making of Gisele

I'm not counting the Milward. I now have my first actual loom. Gisele is one of these. She arrived yesterday along with various other bits and pieces, and when I opened the box I was confronted by an illustrated instruction leaflet and a ziplock bag (quite tightly taped

Handwritten recipe for chocolate and courgette muffins, mostly showing just the ingredients list.

Recipe rescue

My sister gave me an excellent thing for Christmas. It was another vegan air fryer cookery book; but this one is British, which means I don't have to go through converting everything into metric weights. Moreover, looking at it, I think most of the recipes have a fighting

17 x 17 crossword grid. It has fourfold rotational symmetry, in the approved fashion.

Many a cross word

My ancient mother doesn't want anything for Christmas. Well, she has quite a small bungalow and it's full of stuff, so she doesn't have room for a lot more of it; besides, it's not as if she can do so much reading

Small sewing caddy in black and white gingham weave fabric, with a black handle that goes along the length.

Vade mecum

When I used to go to concerts regularly, I had a portable sewing kit. Theoretically, that meant I was able to repair any of the musicians involved. Soprano snapped a suspender? Bass burst a button? No problem. I was there. Except... somehow, it was never like that. The only person