Recycled cardi hottie
Finally got around to recycling a fave cardi (has beautiful glitterly bits in it – never found yarn like it…). It had felted a little too much, moths had got at it, and the arms had gone too long. And yet I couldn’t sling it. The British summer was forgotten this weekend, so whilst it ...
Felt bird workshop
Amy asked if I could run a felt bird making workshop at the launch of The Crafter Culture Handbook in Notting Hill; I assumed there would be a bunch of us who’d contributed projects to the book doing them, but no only me! I felt honoured (or maybe I was the only one to say ...
Sheep & Snails…
The long awaited ‘deviant view of cinema’ has arrived. V’s new monthly film magazine, Electric Sheep, is launched and a cinema club is planned… Have a go at the Film Roulette – you might win! Other animals: If you remember the felt snails I made last year, you might be interested to know I’ve done ...
Snowflake sewing cards
There’s something very soothing about threading coloured wool through punched holes… It reminds me how much I love the ‘stringing beads’, ‘drawing with crayons’ and ‘cutting pictures from a magazine for your scrapbook’ pictures in Richard Scarry‘s Great Big Schoolhouse:)
busy like a bee….
You know that feeling that your day is already full and you couldn’t possible squeeze in another minute to do anything? and yet somehow there *is* time to do everything… Other days you have ages to get one tiny thing done – and don’t… time is a mysterious thing…. So anyway… I was up at ...
Getting ready for September…
Had to make up a bunch of these iron on transfers for our shirts… they are part of the costumes we’ll be wearing on September the 9th – the night of the Actionettes present… Bad Girls! night… :)
a list
new dress found without even trying in Pop Boutique – lovely and fits perfectly! sewed new cushion cover for downstairs – been on my list a while stuck up and grouted new tiles to replace fallen off ones in kitchen – been looking at manky plaster for about 3 weeks… Put up photos from Hula ...
