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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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• Inspirational Crafter: Lisa of Lilfishstudios

  Posted on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 18:23 in buttons, crafting, felt, Flickr, inspiration, lilfishstudios, Packaging, vintage

  One of my very favourite Flickr contacts is Lisa of Lilfishstudios - I click on her new photos almost every time they show up in "recent photos from your contacts" and am impressed without fail every ...

• 365 / 201 - Trying New Things

  Posted on Saturday March 8th, 2008 at 07:18 in 365, crafting, felt, new, Projects, squares, supplies

  2008 is my year of trying new things. Thinking "oh, maybe I could try that" and actually doing it instead of just thinking about it... I'm starting up new shops on Dawanda and Pink Doodle, and back in...

• 365 / 186 & 187 - Pincushions, Sweet Treats and Thrifted Lovelies

  Posted on Saturday February 23rd, 2008 at 06:38 in 365, brooches, Candy, craft zine, crafting, design challenge, felt, handmade, owl, sweets, thrifting, UK

  On Thursday I wasn't fantastically awake, so I sleepily stitched together the last of the flower pincushions - here they are with the two leftover green ones finished last year:I do love those bright ...

• Distractions and General Laziness

  Posted on Friday February 22nd, 2008 at 15:35 in 365, crafting, Distractions, laziness

  I have been both lazy and distracted by other things today, and not taken any photos. I shall be back tomorrow with crafting 365 pics and some snaps of today's distractions, including some newly-thrif...

• 365 / 185 - Odds and Ends and more Flickr Love

  Posted on Thursday February 21st, 2008 at 16:21 in 365, birds, crafting, Flickr, pincushions, recycling, tea

  Day 185 was a day for odd chores and finishing little bits and pieces of crafty projects. I re-worked the packaging for my remaining music notecards & envelopes (minus my branding) ready to be sto...

• 365 / 183 - French Fancies and Finishing Things

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 05:05 in 365, cake, crafting, felt, Flickr, french fancies, pincushions, sewing, wips

  I am determined at the moment to do two things. Firstly I need to properly restock my designs (many sold out in November and have not been made since! dreadful!) instead of getting distracted by shiny...

• 365 / 171 & 172 & lots of catching up...

  Posted on Thursday February 7th, 2008 at 13:13 in 365, askey, craft zine, crafting, haberdashery, john lewis, sewing, shoes, teacups

  I have lots of blogging to catch up on, so this post is going to be rather a long one! Brace yourselves...First up, my Crafting 365 antics from way back on day 164...Day 164 I packed up a shoebox full...

• 365/164-170: Things Conspire Against Me!

  Posted on Wednesday February 6th, 2008 at 04:48 in 365, accessories, brooches, crafting, felt, handmade, new

  I am back with a working internet connection (wonderful, magical, marvellous) but now I am ill! Rubbish! I am itching to write about this week's crafty goings on, but my witterings will have to wait. ...

• 365 / 163 - From Sketches to Patterns to Prototypes

  Posted on Tuesday January 29th, 2008 at 10:42 in 365, Applique, birds, bluetit, british, brooches, butterflies, crafting, designs, felt, handmade, handstitched

  We had a super-slow day at work yesterday and I spent rather a lot of time sneakily sketching British butterflies:Of course, I was then so excited at how well some of the sketches had turned out that ...

• 365 / 160 - Violets and Camera Settings

  Posted on Saturday January 26th, 2008 at 06:56 in brooches, crafting, felt, flowers, handmade, violets, white balance

  We went to see some friends last night, so I took a few works-in-progress along with me in a little box and stitched away during all the chitchat. I was supposed to be finishing a batch of red teapots...

• 365 / 159 - Building up my Collection, plus: Tea Things

  Posted on Friday January 25th, 2008 at 10:57 in brooches, crafting, felt, handmade, keep calm, mugs, posters, sewing, tea

  I continue to be working on little batches of my designs - yesterday I finished a batch of pansies, and started sewing together a batch of red teapots. As well as helping me build up a stock of items ...

• 365 / 150 - lines and circles

  Posted on Wednesday January 16th, 2008 at 10:13 in 365, crafting, embroidery, felt, Mobile, oak leaves, sewing, to do lists, works in progress

  Last night my crafty task was to finish sewing all the pastel circles together for the mobile strands I'm working on. I thought I'd managed this but as I was packing up I found a sneaky little set of ...

• Stop Press: Crafting 365 Article published, yay!

  Posted on Monday January 14th, 2008 at 19:04 in 365, crafting, new year, resolutions, storque

  Just a quick (late night for me!) post to say hurrah hurrah the article I wrote about the Crafting 365 project has appeared on Etsy. Please do go check it out, and follow the links at the end to some ...

• 365 / 147 - oak leaves and featured crafter Ladyfort

  Posted on Sunday January 13th, 2008 at 08:30 in 365, crafting, fabric, moustaches, oak leaves, sallyent, sewing

  Here's my workbox from last night...... I finished the batch of large green oak leaves and made a start on some brown ones, including finally using the sketches I made in the autumn to make patterns f...

• 365 / 145 - more moustaches & another featured crafter: Paperbluebird

  Posted on Friday January 11th, 2008 at 11:55 in 365, birds, crafting, felt, Flickr, framing, group, paperbluebird, rain

  Last night I finally finished the batch of moustache disguises and pins I've been working on. Rather slow progress as I was doing my sewing whilst watching many episodes of Doctor Who (the most recent...

• 365 / 144 - moustaches, plus! Featured Crafter: CharlotteNarunsky

  Posted on Thursday January 10th, 2008 at 06:01 in 365, charlotte narunsky, crafting, front page, squirrel, works in progress

  Last night I did a little bit of moustache-embroidering, and then I did a little happy dance as my grey squirrel pin was on the Etsy front page! Hurrah! Thanks to Bombus for the heads up and the scree...

• 365 / 143 - tidying up and getting nice post

  Posted on Wednesday January 9th, 2008 at 05:08 in 365, cards, crafting, felt, tidying, works in progress

  Yesterday I was determined to tidy up the spreading mess I've created over the holidays. When I started yesterday morning my sewing, filing and packaging debris covered the coffee table (and part of t...

• 365 / 142 - essay crisis

  Posted on Tuesday January 8th, 2008 at 09:34 in 365, crafting, moustaches, supplies, tea

  Yesterday I wrote an article about the Crafting 365 project, and nearly broke my brain in the process. It's due in draft form tomorrow and writing it felt like the worst kind of essay crisis, having t...

• 365 / 141 - moustaches and musing on rewards

  Posted on Monday January 7th, 2008 at 13:30 in 365, crafting, fake, handmade, lazerbeanz, modelling, moustache, mustache, UK

  My crafting 365 photo for today is a total cheat, as it wasn't taken today or even by me! It's one of the awesome shots taken by the LazerBeanz team for use in my moustache disguise listings:How great...

• 365 / 140 - not doing much, but still getting things done

  Posted on Sunday January 6th, 2008 at 05:45 in 365, brooches, crafting, felt, handmade, knickers, sewing, squirrels

  Yesterday was one of those days on which - were it not for my Crafting 365 project - I would have done nothing crafty whatsoever. I did some housework, pottered about a bit not really doing anything i...

• 365 / 139 - destashing some supplies

  Posted on Saturday January 5th, 2008 at 06:12 in crafting, destash, supplies, swapping, swaps, tidying

  I am in the mood to tidy up, to rearrange, to clear out, to throw or give away. So last night I emptied the contents of my 2 crafty drawer units (you know, those wooden ones from IKEA) and sorted thro...

• 365 / 137 - an army of squirrels

  Posted on Thursday January 3rd, 2008 at 10:03 in 365, brooches, crafting, crafts, felt, fox, handmade, squirrel

  Cute as they are, I wouldn't want to mess with these little guys...... especially as there are four more of them around here somewhere (I'd temporarily misplaced them when I took that picture this mor...

• 365 / 136 - preparing to take photos

  Posted on Wednesday January 2nd, 2008 at 13:35 in 365, brooches, crafting, handmade, handstitched, pins

  Yesterday I decided to get all the designs I've been working on finished and photo-ready for this morning, adding lots of brooch backs and stitching fronts and backs together and putting all my unlist...

• 365 / 135 - A Quiet New Year, and some Resolutions

  Posted on Tuesday January 1st, 2008 at 05:50 in 365, cards, crafting, cuttings, deer, felt, gardening, new year, resolutions

  Happy New Year! No wild parties for me last night, just a quiet and cosy night in doing some sewing...I was so pleased with the woodland creatures I made on day 134 that I started cutting out pieces t...

• 365 / 133 - sketching new ideas

  Posted on Sunday December 30th, 2007 at 06:10 in 365, crafting, resolutions, schemes, sketches

  As yesterday was my 1 year Etsyversary I spent much of the day musing on the past year, the progress of my business and craft and the plans I have for the year to come. It was my New Year's resolution...

• 365 / 132 - scrapbooks and some crafty gifts

  Posted on Saturday December 29th, 2007 at 07:42 in 365, crafting, feminism, handmade, scrapbooks

  First up, here are the cherry blossoms I failed to photograph yesterday:There were a couple more but one was given to my MIL for Christmas and another is pinned to one of my blouses (the start of a co...

• 365 / 129 & 130 - Crafting over Christmas

  Posted on Thursday December 27th, 2007 at 09:55 in 365, badges, christmas, crafting, Democrats, gifts, Liberal

  Back to work already, but the craftiness of course continued during our brief xmas hols.Late on Christmas day, during the cheese and biscuits, I cut a few more little felt circles from my offcuts - us...

• Happy Christmas! (also 365/128)

  Posted on Tuesday December 25th, 2007 at 05:20 in 365, christmas, crafting, decorations, felt, holly, mother in law, Secrets

  Yesterday I did some secret sewing for my mother-in-law while she was attending a carol service and then while she was around I started cutting my felt scraps into teeny little circles:I'll explain wh...