Apples, apples everywhere ….. favourite free patterns …

Phew … I have been so busy just lately.  I seem to have so many projects on the go at present, and simply not enough hours in the day.  Added to which I have a definite apple problem.  My garden is knee deep in apples!  This year has been a bumper crop, and so I must collect them all up to send for juicing. Indeed some of the trees are so heavily laden I am worried that their branches will break if I don’t do something very soon. 

 And in honour of the harvest I have re-uploaded (is there such a word?) one of my favourite vintage patterns – the little girls collecting their own apple harvest.  You can download the pattern from Bustle & Sew – it’s here – in the free patterns section.

Ben loves to play with the fallen apples, but I don’t think eating too many is very good for his doggy insides … and the blackbirds are feasting happily as well.  Sadly so too are the wasps, so urgent action is called for .  I will have to send Townie Husband up a ladder to start picking at the weekend!!

One of the projects I am late in finishing is of course the “Top Tips for Stitchers” book that so many people generously contributed to a few weeks ago.  It’s nearly ready now and I’ll be circulating it via my free newsletter next month.  If you’d like a copy sent direct to your in-box, then please sign up to my newsletter using the form in the right-hand sidebar.

 

Now it’s back to finishing off the September issue of the magazine .. it’s raining very heavily here … so fallen apple collection – and Ben’s walk – will have to wait a while!!