We're continuing to harvest a large handful of string beans everyday and they really are a lovely addition to our meals. I put them into everything and Nathan quite likes them just cooked up as a side dish too. I'm really hoping the many pumpkins and squash have plenty of warm weather left to grow now that they're taking off. I did harvest our first zucchini yesterday and can see they'll be coming through thick and fast in the next week or so.

I've been much more focused on having seedlings constantly on the go to pop into the garden so hope to have a reasonable autumn/winter garden (mostly brassicas, silverbeet, spinach I think).

Refashioning...

I found a little brown linen tunic dress I'd made Danielle about 18mths ago that was now much to small. I made the original dress from a large women's tunic top I found from the op-shop. I had out my Sew Liberated book last night and realised that the original dress was quite a good match for the wee blossom shirt in there. I figured if I could open up the shoulder seams and chop a bit off the top, that I'd be able to use the tunic as is and just insert some sleeves which would then increase the size of the dress by a few sizes. I didn't have enough scrap left of the linen, so used my leftover brown knit from my skirt and added a wee bird at the bottom. It's perfect again and will do nicely as an autumn top over jeans and a long sleeve merino top.