Matching Pegs

There is really only one thing that I get slightly obsessive about – colour.

When I was young, I think I spent more time arranging my derwent pencils into interesting colour combinations, than actually using them to draw (although I did draw a lot).

The strangest way this obsession manifests itself, in my life now, is that I always hang up clothes on the washing line with matching pegs.  Not only do the pegs have to match each other, but also coordinate in a pleasing way with the garment I am hanging.  I hang a lot of washing, because I have three young children and I don’t use a dryer.

In fact, washing is the only domestic chore that I am any good at, as I would always prefer sewing/creating to cooking or cleaning.  Anyway, the peg thing is a pretty harmless habit to have, and not really that quirky – but it does amuse my friends.

I love choosing fabrics for projects almost as much as I like designing or sewing with them.  I have too many favourite colours to count, but most of them are warm.  If I really had to choose, Dusty Apple Green would probably be at the top of the list (notice how obsessively specific I can be about colour).

This year I have a goal to write up some of my patterns for sale.  I have had my quilt “Spacewalk” (see above) featured in Australian Homespun magazine (Homespun Number 67, Volume 9 Number 12), and have another project being published in Homespun in October this year.

I live in a leafy North Eastern suburb of Melbourne, Australia.  I met my husband at University, where we were both studying design. We have 2 daughters (youngest and oldest) and 1 son.  Life is good.

You can email me at… claire(at)matchingpegs(dot)com