Linking up with Nat from Threads & Bobbins for this week’s Sunday Sevens – sevenish photos of your week showing what your life looks like outside of the blog.
1. The Mollie Makes Comic Relief magazine arrived in the post earlier in the week. I plan on hosting another fundraising ‘Crafternoon’ again this year, as the last one was a huge success (and great fun). Everyone is welcome – it will be 11-3pm on Friday 24th March at my home in North Cheriton, Somerset.
2. One of my students forgot to buy fabric for her next project so I had to improvise with some felt scraps I had to hand. She made this cute little flower brooch in her hour long class.
3. Mr H-L and I went out for lunch to The Grosvenor Arms hotel in Shaftesbury, because sometimes a pub lunch just doesn’t cut it.
4. I just love this little shaker-style egg collecting basket that No.2 Daughter gave to Mr H-L for Christmas. Far too aesthetically pleasing to be hidden away in a cupboard, it sits proudly on display on the dresser.
5. A corner of our house that has never been shown on the blog as yet, for obvious reasons – a neglected shell of a cupboard which is soon to be transformed into a downstairs cloakroom. The builders plan to start in a couple of weeks and hopefully it won’t take too long. I know it’s just a loo, but I want to give it a distinctive look. I just haven’t decided what, yet.
6. The ‘Yoga Jumper’ has been completely finished, ends woven in and everything. It is currently being reshaped .whilst damp. How exactly DO you block a hood, anyway?
7. No.3 Son picked up his abandoned knitting and enthusiastically worked on a few rows before noticing he’d gone wrong. I frogged it back to the mistake and then he lost interest again. I don’t mind – it’s all about encouraging them when they’re in the mood, isn’t it?
8. A gift for a little girl in the family in the making. It’s going to be a fold up, portable doll’s house – a ‘travel doll’s house’, if you like.
That’s it for this week folks!
February 13, 2017 at 3:13 pm
Aww, the doll house looks so cute! Love the yoga jumper. 🙂
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February 13, 2017 at 3:42 pm
It’s such a good idea to have a portable doll’s house, isn’t it? As soon as I saw it in a magazine, I knew I was going to have to make one!
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February 13, 2017 at 3:30 pm
That dolls house! I want to be little again!
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February 13, 2017 at 3:42 pm
Isn’t it fab? Beats a colouring book and crayons for travel fun, too!
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February 13, 2017 at 3:58 pm
Hmm blocking a hood. How about a balloon…
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February 13, 2017 at 4:03 pm
I had thought of that, but will have to see how it looks when it dries first. Hopefully I won’t need to bother.
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February 13, 2017 at 4:22 pm
Fingers crossed
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February 13, 2017 at 4:20 pm
Love the dolls house, great idea! You’ve got eggs! Our chickens haven’t laid a single egg since they got quarantined by Defra
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February 13, 2017 at 4:26 pm
Thank you – still a long way to go with the doll’s house, but it’s a nice project to do. Why were your hens quarantined by Defra?!
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February 13, 2017 at 4:25 pm
That little doll’s house is going to be gorgeous. Will you be able to part with it? I’m not sure I would 😉
Good luck with the hoodie blocking – there doesn’t seem to be much info on the internet about it and I’m sure somebody somewhere must have had to block a hood before now.
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February 13, 2017 at 4:28 pm
I’m not too bothered about having a perfect hood as this is only ever going to be a ‘Sunday’ jumper for pyjama days at home. The doll’s house thingy is such a cool idea for kids on the go, isn’t it?
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February 13, 2017 at 5:10 pm
I love how that dolls house looks! Please do take more photos for us 🙂 (I’m sure you will anyway!) Your yoga hoody looks lovely, and the colour is gorgeous. And well done to number 3 son for having another go!
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February 13, 2017 at 5:43 pm
I’ll be waiting to see how the new construction comes along, and I think every loo deserves to be distinctive! 😉 Love your little student’s flower brooch, son’s knitting, and oh my goodness, that traveling dollhouse is the best!
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February 13, 2017 at 7:02 pm
Another wonderful week at Chez Sewchet! Love it all – especially your take on No 3 son’s knitting progress. Absolutely agree!
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February 13, 2017 at 9:33 pm
Will you being going country or funky with your loo?
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February 13, 2017 at 9:40 pm
I really don’t know yet – I’ve got some research to do before they start the work.
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February 14, 2017 at 7:27 am
Think we’re all loving that portable doll house – what a great idea! Love your student’s brooch too – and not just a sewing lesson, but a good lesson in being creative and thinking on your feet when things don’t go as planned.
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February 14, 2017 at 11:22 am
I guess we’re all little girls at heart and we can imagine playing with it in the car on a long journey, for example!
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February 14, 2017 at 11:41 am
Absolutely 🙂
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February 14, 2017 at 7:58 am
I love the doll house idea, so cute.
Great week all round, and yes, sometimes we just have to spoil ourselves with a lovely lunch. Looked very grand.
Have a great week.
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February 14, 2017 at 11:20 am
Thanks Joey, I’m not really sure whether I’m making this because I think the little girl will like it, or for me because it’s fun to make!
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February 15, 2017 at 7:32 am
I would make it either way, it is so pretty and does look like fun to make. And you can add things as they come to mind to grow the house and goodies. Even better. 🙂
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February 14, 2017 at 8:57 am
Love your egg basket and dolls house
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February 14, 2017 at 11:22 am
Thank you:)
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February 15, 2017 at 1:30 pm
A lovely week – and I love the dolls house. Such a great idea that I’m sure will be a firm favourite 🙂
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February 20, 2017 at 6:16 pm
Thank you, I hope it’s the kind of thing she’ll love – I know I would have at that age:)
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February 15, 2017 at 8:55 pm
I’m sure whatever your plans become…it will be a lovely little room 😉 What a fab little flower brooch! Your mobile doll’s house is super cute there… are so many possibilities to make rooms over and again and always different…it’s the kind of gift you could add to each birthday or Christmas 😀
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February 20, 2017 at 6:18 pm
Thanks Caren, I’m thinking of adding to the original design already – perhaps a dog and a basket to put him in. It’s all about trying to think like a child and what they’d find fun to play with, isn’t it?
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February 22, 2017 at 11:24 pm
Sounds exciting! Getting back into child mode is always fun…I know it will be a winner 😉
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February 16, 2017 at 3:21 pm
I love that doll’s house! What a lovely idea!
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February 20, 2017 at 6:19 pm
Thank you – nearly finished, so it’ll be on the blog soon!
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