I’ve been being kept really busy for the last couple of weeks working on some doll commissions for one of our neighbours. She approached me about using this book that she had as a start point and creating some wedding themed dolls for some younger cousins who were coming to her daughters wedding (incidentally her Read more about Wedding dolls[…]
This is the beginning of one of the dolls I’ve been asked to make by our friend Claire, it is one of a pair although it’s mate is a brown bunny (cut out, the pattern said fake fur but I thought that would be a nightmare so brown suede it is). This is my second Read more about Doll making – The contruction[…]
With Easter and the long weekend (yes!) coming up I thought I’d whip up a tin of Easter biscuits for my colleagues at work. The plan was to do them in Easter shapes, my favourite being the hare below. However there was loads of dough left so the Easter man was born! To make your Read more about The rise of the Easter men![…]
The first step to making a felt hat for me was to make my felt hat base. We got to choose a pre-made felt cloche in the colour of our choice (I went for a deep blue) depending on the shape of hat we wanted to end up with we got given a hat block. Read more about Hat making part 2[…]
(The finished windows at the end of day two). This was the week of my first stained glass lesson at Ardington School of crafts. Ardington is lovely & going back to the old school house really felt like going home. You’ll remember that before I went I did some research into the type of window Read more about My first stained glass class[…]
This Tuesday saw my first class at the AMAZING (caps because it is) Ardington School of Arts and Crafts. I was there to learn about marbling on fabric (I took cotton & silk but the cotton didn’t come out that well (I think it was too thick) so in this post it will be just Read more about Marbling on silk[…]
For as long as I can remeber I’ve been interested/freaked out by masks. Mostly people in masks like the scary street corner people who are usually painted gold or silver or indeed this lot (Dr who geek alert) As I’ve said on a basic level masks frighten me, but they also intrigue me in that Read more about Masquerade[…]
I have FINALLY finished the blanket that I started ages ago for my friend John’s little girl Emmaline. You may remeber when I started it I was giving the wave pattern a try. Well some waves seemed to be working while others not so much & what I ended up with seemed to want to Read more about Emmaline’s blanket[…]
The final wedding was my friends Nick & Beth. I first met Beth in the loos at work crying her eyes out over her missing cat. Although the cat didn’t come back (alas) and although there were many more tears (mostly from my side as I was dating some very unsuitable boys at this Read more about Beth’s wedding[…]
So yesterday was my day of underwear making with Emma Kidd from Emiliana Underwear. Jam and I had a nice lie in during the morning and then I hopped on a train to visit the Old School Club in Clapham Junction. Due to some silliness with the trains I arrived just in time, but Read more about Making underwear with Emma[…]