Make do, Mend and Minimise in 2015

nursemaggie

oh he is gorgeous cheerfulness4! I hope you took a paper pattern of the bits because someone you know is bound to want one for a birthday or Christmas.

My DD used to have a dog like that, probably does still, My SIL made it. It was always a favourite. He was made of a check pattern so she called him Check, like Patch is always called after a dog only having one patch.
My SIL made the ears with felt and he always got picked up with the ears. I must have sewed them back on thousands of times. Of course they got shorter and shorter.

jk0

Ha ha. Don't let any small children see that sausage dog. They'll steal him for a toy.

(I remember I did the same with my mother's pin cushion bunny that she made, & I wouldn't let her stick pins in him any more.)

Grandmaibb

cheerfulness4 that is so lovely, I might have to try and make something like that for my we craft room.

Xx

maryb

I had a Le Creuset oven glove (given as a present - I wouldn't spend that much!) and it was lovely and thick. You could pick anything up and not burn yourself. But the binding on the outside was made of very thin fabric and as it wore, the towelling bit started to fray. Eventually a hole developed through which the heat could catch a finger tip - ask me how I found that out!!

Bought some extra wide twill tape from the haberdashery stall and applied it all round the edge like bias binding. It was so thick that when I was tacking it, the needle almost disappeared in the layers. I had doubts my sewing machine would cope. But it did and I am so pleased with it now - it should last another few years and is much sturdier than the original

Prinzessilein

I have just put on the breadmaker...I am baking a loaf of walnut bread -which will have a honey glaze when baked ....and will be served with my home-made soft cheese.....delicious!


I have arranged to 'trade' a couple of slices of the bread for a portion of Mum's leek and potato soup...so that's lunch tomorrow sorted!


I really must cost a loaf of home-baked bread....Obviously a Supermarket cheap-white would come out less expensive, but I reckon I'm saving a few pennies on the 'quality' bread. (The cheese is definitely a money saver!)


Off now to get in an hour of DPNs practice!

cheerfulness4

nursemaggie wrote: »

oh he is gorgeous cheerfulness4! I hope you took a paper pattern of the bits .

I didn't, such as was my hurry to get started. I'm going to regret that because he truly is a gorgeous little chappie. Worth every stitch and stabbed finger.

I'd also considered the magnetic attraction the little fellow might have with the grandkiddies, 1 and 2 years old. I shall have to find him a little hidey-hole safe from their beady little eyes!

All this making and mending is giving me immense pleasure. Not just my own but reading everyone elses.

I've repaired my glasses. So simple, too. The lens kept dropping out because the screw was loosening daily. I cannibalised an old pair and tried a new screw. Perfect! :T
I'd been tightening those glasses daily or twice daily for almost a year.

Still searching for my next make or mend project to begin.

GreyQueen

Well done, cheerfulness, and I love your sausage doggie.

Once glasses screws are tightened, you could try putting a dab of nail varnish on them (clear is best) to stop them coming off. I've also repaired a fellow traveller's glasses as an emergency (screw lost, middle of nowhere) by taking a twisty-tie, stripping off the paper bit, and threading the thin wire through the screw hole and twisting it up on itself.

Twisty-ties are very useful things to have around, I find.

savingqueen

GreyQueen wrote: »

Well done, cheerfulness, and I love your sausage doggie.

Once glasses screws are tightened, you could try putting a dab of nail varnish on them (clear is best) to stop them coming off. I've also repaired a fellow traveller's glasses as an emergency (screw lost, middle of nowhere) by taking a twisty-tie, stripping off the paper bit, and threading the thin wire through the screw hole and twisting it up on itself.

Twisty-ties are very useful things to have around, I find.

GQ that is simply brilliant! Thank you. I don't wear glasses to see/read but have kept a pair of sunglasses that has a missing screw, I can fix them now! (when I find them that is) Think I will go around looking for family glasses and painting clear varnish on them all. I LOVE tips like these.

HOWMUCH

Good evening everyone, nice to see we are all doing our thing for the cause. I brought a load of items that need the odd stitch in them from my daughter's and why do trouser hem's seem to fall down these days? Love the pin cushion dog cheerfulness.

cheerfulness4

I agree with savingqueen, those tips are brilliant. Now if you know how to get eyeliner out of a sandy colour carpet I'd be really impressed.
It appeared from nowhere but a check of feet revealed mine with black smudges.
Both my eyeliners have their leads (or whatever they're called). The steam mop has coped pretty well but DH will have another go tomorrow as its not perfect.

Great excitement in the Cheerful Household. Seeds are up! :j
Well that's it then, 2015 season is well and truly started. :T
I shall search through my seeds for antirrhinums and pansies as they're classics I love. I know I should be sowing those now.

Look at this pretty way to grow basil. Wouldn't they look lovely on your windowsill.

I'm good at growing basil but DH says it smells like cats wee. I have to say on a sunny windowsill it does rather.