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In my previous post I forgot to acknowledge the manufacturer of the pattern I used. Here goes: it is similar to this one , but this is the real pattern. That's it.

Many of you will know that I have been sewing a corset on and off since R&H got married. (That is about 2 years ago - give or take a few days :) ) This is the fabric I used, although the colours are slightly off in the picture, it does show the pattern very nicely. Finally, after a week of some frustrating experiences, I finished it yesterday. The pattern called for normal, plastic boning, and being the geek I am, I had to protect the edges of each piece from poking through the layers of the corset, by sewing a protective piece of fabric either end, trimming off the pieces of fabric and then inserting the boning into the sewn channels. I mixed the plastic boning, which I used for the shorter channels, with steel boning for the long channels - especially the side seam. Then, I ran out of eyelets (grommets) Grrrrrr! The store that could put them in did not want to sell them to me to put in myself, but only if they were the ones putting them it. Double Grrrrr! So, on the back, you ca

If you have run out of ideas for that office party, why not go to design*sponge and imitate this cake . Yummy, yummy, yum!

No pun intended. The chair is done, finished it last night. Here is the seat (top and bottom view). Bottom Top You can see that I'm not a professional upholsterer, but it'll do for my humble abode. It's not greatest work ever done, but it did not cost me anything except four screws and some sanding paper. I even managed to borrow the staple gun from work. When I think about how much chairs are these days in the shop, to pay less than R10 (about $1 for all the non-South Africans), just simply because people did not want to or know how to fix the chair themselves, I struck a really good deal.

After burning my hand twice in the same spot the other day, I decided it was time to finish the quilt I had started about a year ago. Unfortunately I'm not nearly done, because I have to make a second one (I bought too much batting :) - oh the joys of fabric shopping). I also have not found a backing fabric yet and need to do some hinting. So, in the meantime, to pass the evenings of procrastinating on assignments and wedding dress, I did some DIY: I had rescued this chair form the trash quite a while ago and on Saturday took it apart, sanded it down, to look like this: Then re-assembled the chair, like this: You can see that I decided not to sand right down to the wood. I did this intentionally to give the chair some character and also to avoid having to paint it with another colour, since I wanted to give it an "antique" finish with crackling varnish. I also did not feel like buying varnish, so, off I went to the Spencer's house and "borrowed" some odour-f