Making Life more Beautiful
One of the great benefits of the shoe making course is that I was able to pick up lots of discarded leather pieces. In the photograph below I include my feet, for scale. I think the dark brown is probably … Continued
How we look is such an important aspect of who and what we are. Just as we have a character and personality, so too, we have an appearance – a body, a shape, a way of talking and walking. We … Continued
Regular readers will know that my main mission in life is to learn! After the bootmaking Ceci was asking What next? And so were we! I love travel, exploring nature, meeting new people, eating food especially food I have never … Continued
Love it or hate it, the name we are given at birth usually sticks with us forever. The process of choosing children’s names is taken seriously and is often full of meaning. My kids all got parent or grandparent middle … Continued
Last week we had almost completed our footwear and the final week was spent creating the sock – the little piece of slightly padded leather that goes inside your shoes. Then we took pictures, collected email addresses and went home. … Continued
A recent discussion on Meghan Markle found all of us agreed that the outfits the women wore on Suits bore little resemblance to the workwear you might find in a modern lawyers office in NYC. I guess that is true … Continued
Do you follow the wonderful, funny, talented Nakisha Smith’s blog Dressmaking Debacles? She and I tested a jeans pattern together and I have followed her ever since. The other day she wrote an interesting blog on colour analysis. She concluded that … Continued
(sorry about my management of posts this weekend – post on colour coming on Tuesday) Since I last wrote about a cardigan, I made another EZ yoked sweater. Partly I was waiting for the Knit along knitters to finish their … Continued
(republished on 7 Nov)
The boot making continues. In week four we finished the lasting, and made our heels. We had to work hard to get all the leather to fold over beautifully in the toe area. Again I used my dressmaker’s skills of … Continued
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