Sewing Update

The bridesmaids dress photo I promised last time I posted. Really pleased with my first commission.

On 1st & 2nd June I went on a course at the School of Sewing at Ashby de la Zouch to learn about Corset making, it was a great two days.  Really pleased with the finished garment.

I used silk for the base of the corset with lace and net overlaid in panels.  Now I need to make a skirt to match, I'm  thinking of using lace panels with georgette godets over a net petticoat, have been experimenting with the design on the dressmakers dummy.

On the allotment

We have been planting out all the cabbage, cauliflower, sprouts and broccoli. It's beginning to look good.

I've used plumbing pipe to hold the net up over the plants, this will hopefully keep the pigeons off and stop butterflied laying their eggs on the plants.

These broad beans in the foreground are lovely have been eating them already, the smaller plants on the right are beetroot, and there are parsnips and carrot in the bed behind the broad beans, not ready yet.  The pumpkins and squash have been planted in the bed with the large purple flower at the end.  Our paths have bark chips along them, but still the weeds keep popping up!

Have been picking raspberries, red and black currants, there are so many black currants, will have to make some jam this week. The peas at the top of the allotment are not ready yet, but those I have in the garden are and they taste great. Those tiny cucumbers in a previous picture are big enough to eat and they taste really good too, more photos to follow in a few days.