Oh wow!
Our new book is totally OUT! It started popping up in stores yesterday… and it should be in a store near you extremely very soon! How exciting. Here it is at Readings Carlton. It is also in at Readings in St Kilda. And the Brunswick St Bookstore has it today too.
I want to say thank you to you guys, for your (mostly!) constant support… and for checking in on me. Thank you. It really does mean a huge great lot to me to know that you are egging me on in the craftiest of ways. Thanks. For real.
And I want to thank heaps of other people too… you can read the acknowledgements at the back of the book, to see who helped.
A lot of things happened while I was trying to make this book. The very worst of it was when Cam’s really superb-atron Dad died after a pretty gruelling battle with cancer (aren’t they all, I guess). The very best things were when my Sister and Cam’s Sister got married (in October and January!)
On the down side, our very gorgeous puppy Snoopy got squished by a truck. BUT on the up side I moved into a studio with Vic and Bec. Bugger, I also had pneumonia. But how ACE, I got to see my Nan on her 89th birthday. Wowee. Troughs and peaks. It really is quite amazing that this book actually got made and in fact hit the stores slightly ahead of time. Phew. When I look at it, I feel really proud. There were lots of dramas betwixt it’s making. I am so glad I made it to the finish line! Not only did it make it, but it made it in the form of a really ace book that will get a lot of people sewing.
I really hope you like it. I really do like it a lot. It is like our family album, full of things we love and people we know. The handwriting that appears throughout the book is from Cam’s Nan’s and Cam’s Mum’s recipe files. There are lovely images by John Laurie.. and a page of snaps from my own album too. The kids are all friends of Michelle (our lovely designer and beloved of Mr Wide) or our own cute friends.
Lots of people came to the shoot to help, including Angela and Anita and Victoria and Cindy and Kirsty…. Invaluable and fun help, I might add. I worked with Jane and John and Chris and Michelle on the way the book reads and looks, as well as editor Janine Flew. Mel helped me to make the patterns. The team at Hardie Grant were marvellous.
Cindy’s guinea-pig and a shy rabbit and Nimbus (Maggie’s dog) all starred in ‘Sew La’, as well as our magpie Rochester.
Thanks to Cameron (my bf) and Gemma (my df) and Rin (my d) and Ari (my s) and Max (also my s) for their constant cheer leading.
Thanks thanks thanks.
Phew.
xx Pip
NB :: My book is called Sew La Tea Do :: you can buy it online from Readings and very soon at Borders…. or you can check Booko. You will find it in all good bookstores. It will come out next year throughout the UK and Europe