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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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• Neglecting the Washing Up

  Posted on Saturday June 14th, 2008 at 13:37 in etsy, gardening, handmade, shopping, tea, teatowels

  I did make stuff yesterday, but as my camera is well and truly busted I'm going to leave off the crafty updates for today and instead present a few Etsy finds...It has been so sunny today! Just gorgeo...

• 365 / 234 - Catching Up (aka Cheating!)

  Posted on Thursday April 10th, 2008 at 17:33 in Applique, bluebells, brooches, crafting 365, design challenge, felt, flowers, handmade, new

  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

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 in brooches, crafting 365, design challenge, felt, handmade, house, houses, 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 / 219 - Wips, Beards and a New Challenge

  Posted on Wednesday March 26th, 2008 at 13:34 in beards, crafting 365, disguise, felt, handmade, lupin, new, Projects, works in progress

  I'm still working on an assortment of odd projects, here are a few of them from yesterday:I started a pair of felt glasses (soon to be a nerdy glasses disguise), embroidered some labels for my lavende...

• 365 / 216 - Stuffing Pincushions

  Posted on Sunday March 23rd, 2008 at 10:34 in Applique, circles, crafting 365, etsy, felt, handmade, lupin, pincushions, scraps, textile art, works in progress

  Ah, stuffing pincushions is such an enjoyable task! Look how chunky they are:I finished four pincushions yesterday (whilst rather gorging myself on Poirot dvds) ...... and have four waiting to be stuf...

• 365 / 208 - Colour Therapy

  Posted on Saturday March 15th, 2008 at 10:54 in brooches, colour, crafting 365, felt, handmade, lupin, ribbon, squares, stripes

  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...

  Posted on Friday March 14th, 2008 at 10:46 in brooches, clouds, crafting 365, felt, handmade, lupin, needlebooks, rain, weather

  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 / 202 - Sleepy Teacups

  Posted on Sunday March 9th, 2008 at 09:40 in brooches, crafting 365, felt, handmade, mobiles, nation, 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 / 196 - A Gigantic Cherry Blossom

  Posted on Monday March 3rd, 2008 at 12:33 in brooches, cherry blossom, crafting 365, custom work, felt, handmade, supplies

  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

  Posted on Sunday March 2nd, 2008 at 07:13 in brooches, butterflies, buttons, crafting 365, crafting 365 sewing, felt, handmade, poppies

  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

  Posted on Tuesday February 26th, 2008 at 08:51 in brooches, butterflies, buttons, crafting 365, felt, haberdashery, handmade

  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...

• Mothers and Poppies

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 19:01 in brooches, handmade, poppies

  My mother is visiting, so not much time for computery things today - I did log in to Etsy to reply to some convos though and found one of my poppy brooches on the front page!My mother was particularly...

• 365 / 188 - Lions and Penguins and Buttons, Oh My!

  Posted on Sunday February 24th, 2008 at 08:35 in brooches, butterflies, buttons, crafting 365 sewing, felt, handmade, lions, Penguins, works in progress

  Just a short post today as I am busy cleaning the house (sooo dull) ... but here's my workbox from yesterday:More lions, lots of penguins and making a start on lots of new button brooches - trying to ...

• 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 ...

• 365 / 180 - Works in Progress and a New Workspace

  Posted on Saturday February 16th, 2008 at 13:28 in Applique, brooches, butterflies, butterfly, crafting 365, felt, handmade, sewing, tidying

  Tidying is still the thing. What a mess we are making in the process! I have a new "office" space now though, which is rather nice. It's basically just some shelves under our breakfast bar - which div...

• 365 / 179 - Researching Butterflies

  Posted on Friday February 15th, 2008 at 12:01 in butterflies, crafting 365, felt, handmade, patterns, sewing, tidying

  I continue to be reorganising things - also cleaning things, moving things, clearing things out and generally making a huge mess of the house and hoping that in the end it will all look nice and be re...

• 365 / 176 - An Explosion of Pink

  Posted on Monday February 11th, 2008 at 05:03 in badges, brooches, cake, crafting 365, felt, handmade, pins, sewing, tea

  I had great plans yesterday, but by the time I sat down with my paper and pencil and big pile of felt I was too tired to make any of them work properly... so I made a start on restocking my "I love te...

• 365 / 173 - Teacups and the Internet

  Posted on Friday February 8th, 2008 at 06:15 in birds, brooches, felt, handmade, moustache, mustache, sewing, tea, teacups

  Last night we watched "Spy Game" (rubbish!) and I finished my batch of pink teacup pins. Here they all are, in a pink teacup (I'm really thinking outside the box today! haha) ...Naturally, I had to go...

• 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 / 161 & 162 - Badgers and Other Bits and Pieces

  Posted on Monday January 28th, 2008 at 09:27 in badgers, brooches, cake, crafting 365, felt, handmade, oak leaves, tea, violets, woodland

  I managed to forget to write a blog post yesterday - oops! So there's two days worth of sewing antics to catch up on... Saturday I was determined to finish the oak leaves begun on day 148, and did fin...

• 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 / 157 - Pastels for Spring

  Posted on Wednesday January 23rd, 2008 at 09:27 in brooches, crafting 365, felt, flowers, forget-me-nots, handmade, primroses, sewing, spring

  I continue to be springtime-obsessed, eagerly awaiting the flowering of my spring bulbs and doodling all kinds of floral patterns. My work pile for yesterday evening was suitably spring-like, as I had...

• 365 / 156 - Finished Florals and some Teapots

  Posted on Tuesday January 22nd, 2008 at 05:18 in brooches, crafting 365, embroidery, felt, flowers, handmade, sewing, tea, teapot

  Ah, sunshine, how wonderful. And with sunshine comes the ability to take product photos so (most marvellously) the assorted brooches I finished last night can now be listed in the shop! I am rather it...

• 365 / 155 - Spring has Sprung...

  Posted on Monday January 21st, 2008 at 11:32 in brooches, felt, floral, flowers, forget-me-nots, handmade, pansies, primroses, spring, tea

  ... well, it has inside my head, anyway. Outside it is cold and grey and living up to today's reputation as the most depressing day of the year but inside my brain I am obsessed with spring! I've been...

• 365 / 154 - Tea, Glorious Tea

  Posted on Sunday January 20th, 2008 at 08:53 in brooches, felt, handmade, handstitched, pins, polka dot, sewing, tea, teacups

  I do like a nice cup of tea. I drank a lot of tea yesterday, and finished the batches of teacup brooches. Here they are, all finished, in a very satisfying heap:The red teacups will be in the shop thi...

• 365 / 153 - Teacups and Featured Crafter Knithappens

  Posted on Saturday January 19th, 2008 at 10:44 in brooches, crafting 365, felt, handmade, knithappens, knitting, outcast, tea, teacups

  I'm rather sleepy today (up a bit too late with our guests last night!), which gives me an excellent excuse to curl up with my sewing instead of doing any actual work. I've been cutting out lots of fe...

• 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...