Christmas and New Year Projects

 

I bought this lovely jersey fabric in a forest with deer print to make pyjama trousers, which is my current project.

My big project for early 2021 is a Dr Who scarf (Tom Baker era) knitted using the authentic BBC instructions. We are currently watching all the Tom Baker Dr Who series and they are brilliant.

https://www.openculture.com/2015/12/instructions-for-knitting-the-iconic-dr-who-scarf.html

Also I plan to finally crack making a pair of proper jeans and sew a waistcoat for Alistair, who seems to be getting lots of use out of the one I made him years ago. (Working from home in the winter makes you realise how cold it is with the heating off).

2020 Essentials

 Starting to look forward to the end of 2020. I hardly need to say what a nightmare this year has been for everyone.

Here’s a list of supplies I found essential in 2020...

Masks

Sanitiser

Soap

Hand cream

Jigsaws

Craft supplies

Gin (or any other alcoholic drink)

Gardening tools

Laptop (Alistair’s)

Office chair (liberated from my work)

Slippers

Dungeons and Dragons books for our gaming

Cake (preferably home made)

Corduroy Success

 

I finally made a pair of trousers that really fits, on the fifth attempt! Super chuffed with these cords, in dark red, one of my favourite winter colours. This is a new sewing pattern and really works with three different body shape options.

Next up, christmas pyjama trousers, classic jeans and a red jersey dress.

Boring Views: by Denburn Car Park

 

A messy, semi abstract acrylic of the old hospital by the car park. I liked the red chimney.

Autumn plant

 

Even my indoor plants, like this begonia, are taking on autumn colours.

Favourite Sewing

 

My favourite sewing and sewing patterns reflect things I wear and like to make. The easiest is the pyjama trousers, top middle, with a tricky trouser project I am working on top right. My favourite comfy jersey dresses appear at the bottom with a useful drapey cardi. I have made all these several times in different fabrics and they always work.

Pop Art Hope

 

An experimental stencil/paint of hopeful hearts while I was anxiously awaiting the US election result.