Skip to main content

Oh look! There's a sale on ...

A rainy day in Yorkshire, and I sensibly spent most of it indoors.  There were an assortment of small craft-related tasks on my list, so I worked through them.  These two grey pieces were slow-stitched applique from months ago.  I'd had the original idea of making some kind of wall hanging.  That never materialised and these oddments were destined to be chopped up and thrown into the small-scraps-basket (ready to be used for cushion pad filling).  However, I had another idea and decided to paste them on to two rectangles of cardboard.  They're going to be notebook covers instead.  They've been put aside for the fabric glue to fully dry.  
Next on my list, adding iron-on interfacing to these pieces of white material, the remains of an embroidered tablecloth and a traycloth, both bought secondhand ages ago.  The tablecloth in particular was worn thin in places and tea stained.  I managed to cut out three blocks from the remaining material, and the other small strips I strengthened with the interfacing and will use as part of larger improv blocks.  It'd be a shame to waste the pretty embroidery, wouldn't it? 
After putting the iron away, I moved on to cutting out sari and boho style fabric for the bundles I want to sell on Etsy.  I couldn't list anything today as the light wasn't bright enough for taking decent photos, but I was able to decide how many fabric pieces I'd include per pack and what mix of sizes to include.  Don't know what price I'll charge, but it'll depend a lot on postage costs. 

With that done I wandered down to the local high street as I needed a couple of things from the Co-op (milk, batteries and - oops, seems a bag of Lindt mini chocolate eggs has slipped into my shopping basket).  As the charity shop were having a 50% off sale I popped in there too.  It was a good move as someone had cleared out their printing supplies.  Five packs of printing stamps - I had to force myself not to buy more - were mine for a bargain price.  The original price tags were on a few of the packs.  I've got at least £40 worth of stamps for a mere three quid.  
Home again, and I spent time working on ATCs, artist trading cards, for a Facebook group I've signed up to.  We're doing an end of year swap.  26(?) people signed up to it and each supplied a theme.  I picked 'underwater' as mine.  Basically you make a card for each person, using their theme as a starting point.  You can be literal or abstract, use paints or pencils, collage or whatever method you like of assembling your ATC.  I'm on my last card, the theme being 'fairy'.  I'll take a photo of the complete range of cards I've made tomorrow so you can see them.  Some are better than others, and some themes I loathed.  (Clowns!  Who wants to draw a clown?  Urgh!)  
Right, that's all my ramblings for today.  I need to get my fairy looking glittery and magical, rather than lumpy and bad tempered.  Hope you have a good evening.  Bye for now.  
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fabric bowls & electrical cables ...

To add to my seemingly never ending list of works-in-progress, I've started making a fabric bowl.  Or should I call it a fabric basket?  I'm not sure.  Anyway, I've made the odd bowl or two before, like this blue & white one that I keep cotton perle in.   I decided to use upholstery material, which has both advantages & disadvantages.  On the good side, it has a certain stiffness, which helps the bowl stay in shape.  On the irritating side, the kind of material I'm using frays like mad, and I'm forever picking up threads off the carpet.  The bowl's a simple construction, and I've used a circle of cardboard covered with brown felt for the base.   It'll look much better when I've embroidered and stitched into it.  I've made a start on that, and appliqued on a rectangle of plum coloured velvet for extra interest. When not stitching, I've been catching up on my reading.  I finished C J Sansom's 'Dark Fire'.   Real...
Post a Comment
Read more

Threads of Freedom and charity shop bargains

  It's Saturday afternoon, and I haven't done half the things I'd meant to.  Partly because I spent most of this morning messing about with paints, stencils and the gell plate.  Never mind, everything on today's 'To Do' list will join tomorrow's 'To Do' list ... it's hardly life or death if I don't haul the hoover around the room or pull up weeds in the front garden.   I thought I'd show you what I made on Wednesday.  I'd gone to my monthly StitchArt group, and this time we did something a little different.  There's a project called 'Threads of Freedom' which is working with various community groups across the city.  It's about creating little stitched pieces, some of which will be included in a textile panel to go on display at Leeds art gallery.  There was lots of fabric we could choose from to sew with, and I picked this vintage tray cloth with the roses embroidery.   My own embroidery's not a patch on those flo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Another fabric bowl & what's starting to look like a craft room ...

  Hello on what's been a beautiful autumn day.  Bright blue clear sky, a chilly start but warming up in the afternoon.  I've been on a long walk around a local nature reserve, not wanting to stay inside when it's so lovely outdoors.   In the last week or so, I've been finishing this fabric bowl, and have started making another.   But mainly I've been having a bit of a change-around in my house.  I've hauled furniture from one room to another, clutter-cleared cupboards and bagged up things for the charity shop, and generally hoovered and cleaned all those dusty corners.   I'd finally made a decision about turning the dumping ground of the front bedroom into a craft room.  It's taking shape, though it really has taken some effort.   Larger pieces of material are stacked on shelves, grouped into colours.  Lower down is my Sissix machine and die cuts, and at the base of the shelving are beads and jewellery making supplies...
Post a Comment
Read more