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The daily crafting journal of a felt-obsessed crafter! My new work, works in progress, experiments and ideas, and some random witterings along the way.
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Being On Trend
I have spent most of today staring at the computer and cursing at obscure printer error messages whilst printing out lots of things for a "press and features" scrapbook I'm putting together. So, to sa...
Finished!
The final day of Crafting 365. Wow. I know it's taken me about 5 or 6 weeks more than 365 days to complete it (breaks taken for illness, broken boilers, and other domestic disasters) and I've not post...
Show and Tell (C365/361)
Lots of lovely pictures to show you today! First up, here's the product of last night's sewing session:Sprigs of mistletoe! It's lovely to be making these again this year, and it's always interesting ...
Odds and Ends (C365/357)
I'm still working my way though my work-in-progress box, digging out lots of things that need finishing...Last night I finished the batch of pirate eyepatches and my first Christmas ornament of the ye...
Best in Show (day 345)
Yesterday was exactly the sort of day when - in the olden days, before my Crafting 365 project - I would've thought myself too busy to do any sewing and a day would have passed without creativity or t...
I Heart Tea (Crafting 365 day 343)
I drink a lot of tea. Many many mugs of the lovely stuff. I am totally addicted and totally obsessed with all the paraphernalia that goes along with it: teacups, teapots, teacosies, even nice teaspoon...
Aaachoo!
Yup, you've guessed it: I've got a cold. It's not even autumn yet (though the weather's behaving like early October) and I've got an autumnal sniffle. It's making me feel all "ugh" and I've been putti...
Tiny Trees and Crafty Cakes
Last night was one of those evenings when I was hugely tempted to stay up past my bedtime to finish my sewing because almost finishing things is just not the same as actually having a row of finished ...
Remembering Things
I am very forgetful. Take pictures, edit them, Flickr them, blog them - it is less of a surprise when I forget these, much more surprising when I actually remember! Yesterday is a good example: I reme...
Sunshine on a Rainy Day
Yesterday it was so dark and so wet and so miserable. I did my best to fight it with sunny yellow felt (preparing to make sunflowers) but it continued to rain...Today though there has been at least a ...
An English Summer
It is absolutely chucking it down with rain outside (as it has been all weekend) and it's making me very glad to be stuck indoors with lots of sewing to do! Not great weather to take photos in, but lu...
Sneak Peeks
Hello again!I've been very busy doing lots and lots of sewing - some restocking, some finishing off of odds and ends from my wip pile, but also some new designs, hurrah!Tomorrow my new camera and I wi...
Taking Stock
Where does the time go? The whole of yesterday got swallowed up by an assortment of tasks and a variety of entertainments, leaving no time for blogging whatsoever. So it's time for another mini catch-...
Flowers (days 265 & 266)
No chance to blog yesterday as I was visiting my mother-in-law. In the meantime I've managed to finish my orange poppies...... and make a couple of wild rose brooches (white musk rose and pink briar r...
Orange Orange Orange (365 / 264)
I have orange on the brain!I was trying to think of something orange I could make as a gift for a friend who loves bright colours, and I thought maybe an orange version of my poppies? So I dug out som...
Catching up: batches of flowers
My month without the internet has clearly made me forget how technology works: I forgot to charge my camera batteries before trying to take loads of photos today. What an idiot!I did at least get some...
365 / 235 - Orchids
The lovely x-stitcher suggested making orchids as part of my design-a-day challenge and after much pouring over photos, and sketching feverishly I eventually worked out how to make them:I couldn't dec...
365 / 234 - Catching Up (aka Cheating!)
I was supposed to be tidying the house yesterday but instead I spent the entire evening making stuff out of felt. Much more fun!Abstract poppies, a daffodil (or technically a narcissus), a tudor rose,...
365 / 226 - A House and some Mushrooms
A good start to my "design a day" challenge - two designs in one evening! Hurrah!You can see my original sketches for them in this post if you're interested in such things. I also cut out lots of pret...
365 / 223 & 224 - Lots of Labels to choose from
A quick catch up on the past couple of days craftiness: lots of different label badges to choose from!I've got a whole series of these planned, embroidering them is so much fun... The "coffee addict" ...
365 / 211 - Neat little rows
I have a horrible headache this evening and looking at the computer screen is making me go all squinty, so just a quick post for today. I (almost) finished my brooch batches last night - the acorns, t...
365 / 210 - Still in progress
I'm still working on those brooch batches - acorns, umbrellas and tree stumps. I was thinking about how I'm gradually creating a little felt universe, and this somehow led to the taking of this pictur...
365 / 208 - Colour Therapy
Ugh, the weather is so horrible at the moment... I have been cheering myself up by indulging in some colour therapy courtesy of my ribbon stash and making stripey brooches. Here's the first one finish...
365 / 207 - Rainclouds...
It was a horrible day yesterday. Cold, wet, windy, and generally rather miserable. Appropriately, my crafty task for the evening was sewing lots of rainclouds!A batch of Cloudy Skies brooches (one of ...
365 / 203 & 204 - Getting Better, plus: Buttons Galore!
Thanks to much rest, and many a cup of soothing tea I am starting to feel better. It is most marvellous. While I've been feeling under the weather, my crafty pace slowed rather a lot... all I've manag...
365 / 202 - Sleepy Teacups
I've been feeling a bit under the weather for the past few days, and am wandering about the place in a bit of a daze. When I'm worn out I have to be very careful when cooking (or I'm likely to wander ...
365 / 200 - Distracted by Teacups
Oh, it feels so good to have reached day 200!Unfortunately I wasn't feeling too well yesterday. Luckily I had plenty of cherry blossom brooches to finish (nice simple task for the sleepy-brained), and...
365 / 196 - A Gigantic Cherry Blossom
After a bit of a crazy-busy week, I finally got a chance to curl up on the sofa yesterday and have a lovely relaxing few hours dedicated to my sewing. Mostly this week's craftiness has been done "just...
365 / 194 & 195 - Buttons and Brooch Backs
With my camera batteries now charged, here are some photos...On day 194, I finished some more butterfly brooches:Taking photos of them today I took a shot of all the finished butterflies (so far), I t...
365 / 189 & 190 - Buttons and Photography
My mother has left now, so it's straight on the computer to update my blog. How sad is that? Oh well...On Sunday night (day 189) I finished the buttony brooches I was working on:Then last night (day 1...