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I Want To Be A Turtle

A creative lifestyle blog which mainly focuses on my personal sewing, drawing and thread painting projects.

Claire

Self taught sewist, fabric hoarder and handmade wardrobe builder. Say hello:

iwanttobeaturtle@gmail.com

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Dramatic sky over south Oxford this evening

Quiet moment to finish the week: hand stitching, earl grey tea and bird song outside

My sofa is slowly being lost to hexies. I’ve loved adding a few more each evening this week.

The summer fruit fest continues this year with strawberries. Our inherited plants are doing spectacularly well compared to previous summers but I’m partially losing the battle with the slugs. Still, at least we will have collected one bowl.

Something has shifted in the past few weeks. I’ve been gradually making long needed changes whether lifestyle, work or emotionally. They seem to be working. One indicator of progress is being able to sew more. All but one item in this pile of makes to be photographed have been made over the past four weeks. It feels so good to be back making.

Anyone else get that so close yet so far from the finish feeling when adding bias binding to finish the sleeves and neckline?

Sneak peak of my next projects for @thefabricfox creatives. I finally managed to get a picture of it’s true to life colour which was more tricky than drafting the pattern...