Project Roundup

Tea at Yaz’s is coming along – slower than I’d like, but slow progress is still progress. I’ve added an extension to the back of one of the bench seats, because I want to add some kind of divider between the booths.

Petra sits on one of the bench seats from Tea at Yaz's, which is in front of a white brick background. The back of the bench seat has been extended, so there is a small shelf behind it. Petra has one arm up on this shelf, smiling at the camera and wearing a blue and orange floral skirt with a stripy cream shirt and brown boots.

I want to try making a lattice with a vine growing up it to put on top of the extension/divider thing.

I’ve also started quite a large sewing project – the drawings from my sketchbook give some idea of what it entails!

The author's sketchbook is open to a page with "Patchwork Pants" as the title, on a wooden surface. To the left is a pair of scissors, a pencil, a ruler, and the bottom edges of some pattern pieces, arranged in a flatlay.

Patchwork anything takes time, and pants are a big project!

A pant pattern piece is laid flat on a terracotta tiled surface. It is mostly covered by small-ish squares of blue striped fabric, with a stack of the same squares on top.

I’m using second-hand mens’ button-down shirts for the patchworking, because there are so many out there in op-shops and wardrobes, and because they’re often blue. Above, I am estimating how many patches, and therefore how many shirts, I’ll need to make the pants.

Anyways, see ya!

Yves

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