ADAM AT HOME UK

If you'd like the spoken version, clickety-poo   HERE So good people, it's back to the banyan we will go... The banyan project got rather side-tracked last year, partly by the desire to make a mannequin of myself first: Then, I don't know... 'life'... intervened, not to say the making of the 'Good Yule' cards! So, a quick re-cap is in order I think.  If you have followed my blog for a while you may remember I toned-down my lovely, hand-printed Indian cotton with some strong tea, just to knock it back a bit: Then I decided to interline said cotton with some well-washed curtain lining, to give it a bit of substance. This was a rather long and tedious process, familiar to quilters, no doubt, but involved essentially tacking the one to the other with a fine blue cotton thread that hardly shows on the cotton chintz: Next up was a sort of short inner jacket of the chintz padded with cotton domette, as an extra layer in winter. A very, VERY tedious process, of whic

If you would like to listen to this episode rather than read it, please click HERE LONG STITCH BINDINGS... Yes, it's been a while since I have posted anything on here - there is always a rather exhausted lull once the marmalade season is done and dusted - and this year I made over 90lbs... If I'm honest, I think this will be the last year I do it 'commercially': with general inflation at 10% (that's in real, day-to-day terms, not massaged government figures) and the actual oranges going up a good 17% , it's just not viable any more. We'll see how much I have left at the end of the year... Anyway, it's bookbinding we're talking about today, not marmalade! I'd like to describe a particular style of long stitch binding that uses tabs (and sometimes slots). It can be made quite decorative by, forinstance, using different-coloured materials for the front and back covers. The easiest thing there is to cut out two in two different colours, then swap out