Today We Are...

Reidentification

joleo — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:30:33 +0000

You might have noticed that I had a little blogging break, over Christmas & darkest winter. It wasn’t planned but now that it’s over I see why it happened, and also see that it was entirely necessary. Since I haven’t had what you might call a proper job for years I haven’t defined myself by my [...]

Blanket Work

joleo — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:21:38 +0000

The thing about being tired in the evenings is that I often don’t have the energy to sit up at the machine, and yet this is usually the only time I get to do crafty things during the week. I had planned on having the child that takes two hour naps, but my friend got [...]

A Make A Month – January

joleo — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:03:31 +0000

I’ve decided to join Helen’s challenge for the year to make something every month using the stash. Oh the stash. Back when I first started sewing seriously I used to see people talking about their fabric stash, but at that point I was still buying for specific projects and had no idea how you could amass [...]

We Made it

joleo — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:39:18 +0000

In the week leading up to the big weekend I spent a good deal of it worrying. Would I have enough to put on the table? Would there be enough for Fitz to eat in my absence? Would he manage ok with just his dad for company? Would I be be ok without him? Of [...]

Sew! Getting to the fun part faster…

joleo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:50 +0000

It must be ten years ago that I decided I wanted a sewing machine for Christmas. It was at the time another one of my whims, though as it happened it was a whim that stuck, one that now requires dedicated cupboards and drawers, and one little room of our house. I imagine that this [...]

Evidence

joleo — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:54:06 +0000

In between balancing the baby on one arm and hanging up laundry with the other (I’d leave the laundry but we must have pants) I have managed to sneak myself into the sewing room for the odd half hour. Here be proof. I began the make-up bags at the tail end of my pregnancy, and since [...]

The kindness of the internets

joleo — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:15:27 +0000

Is it time to confess that I owe Tim Berners-Lee an awful lot? More than that – pretty much everything, if I’m honest. If he hadn’t invented the internet, then I would never have been building a website for my boss in ‘97, and I would never have got chatting with Mr J, who lived [...]

Fourth Trimester Clothing

joleo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:23:35 +0000

In the middle of my pregnancy I had a mini wardrobe sort out and moved the things I could still wear to one end. This meant I could only open one door of the wardrobe and not be taunted by some favourite things that simply would not fit. Hilariously even though I knew it would [...]

deeply excited

joleo — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:20:36 +0000

Anthropologie are opening a shop on Regent Street. That’s all I’m saying…

One Month

joleo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:21:21 +0000

Funny how some months are longer than others. Funny how some months make it hard to remember what all the other months were like. The beautiful play mat was made by my lovely friend Jo, and we’ve been enjoying it a lot. One of the squares asks ‘How many animals?’ and I can see us having [...]