Island Haiku

Art piece I made to feature some aspects of living in Hawaii.

Second video is up with CQ bag completed

For French notes

Notice board made with toile.
Hang on the wall in the studio.
Padded and tufted, I make these for gifts.

Make a Zine mess

I went to a workshop on the weekend with about 14 lovely artists.

This is how the table looked , before we really got started.
We made a zine, 20 pages, black and white and subject of choice.
Fun.

Book in a box

The box is about 8" in diameter and covered with collage.
I used old book pages to cover the base and inside. The lid has a special picture with lace and trims.
I added a doily from Paris, and a little book.

Vid. One, Embroidery by machine

Another video you may be interested in.
It is machine work and features heavy metallic thread in the bobbin.
I call it Faux Crazy quilting.
There will be part two.
Sorry I knocked the camera over when I was about finished, but I think I made a fairly good recovery.
Sometimes I wonder!
It is on Classes and More.

Pincushion quickie project.

Made from a metal gift tin.
Throw away the lid, stuff firmly.
Make a quilted circle about 3" bigger than top.
Stitch and gather, stuff some more
Glue into can.
Decorate sides of tin with paper, lace, string, tape or whatever.
Sew couple buttons on top.

Journey Journal

Nice zine with a bit of French flair.
16 pages, all have pictures and lace bits and labels.
Add more if you like. My unique binding method.
Tied up with stamped ribbon.
For sale in my shop.

embroidered, labelled

I embroidered 8 French words onto homespun and attached them to a stamped piece of cloth with small brads.
Lace added along with a hank of linen twine.
To use them just undo the brads.
Perhaps make them into a book insert or picture.

I made the dreamy doll

Love to craft dolls. This one entirely made by hand

I used scrim and vintage lace, painted the face and torso.
She sits on a pile of books or on the bed.
I have made these to hang on a wall above a bed, as guardian angels.
Sometimes I feel I need to make dolls, and then I am satisfied for a while.

Phone helper project

This is embarrassingly easy.
I always save the cut-offs of paper and other scraps.
Tear with a ruler to deckle edges and stack in a little pile
Not too thick. Different sizes fine.
Staple close to top to hold together.
Now the trick, run the sewing machine along the top of the pile, no thread in machine.
This will perforate paper for easy tear offs. Just fold and tear, when you write a phone message or a shopping list or number.
Make cover:
tear scrap fabric as long as front of tablet, fold in thirds, glue one third to back.
Attach trims to front, sew or glue along top of pad.
Attach small loop to back so it can be held or pulled from under a mess, like near my phone.

scrap craft coming up.

I do re-cycle and make lots of little phone helpers.
Made them forever and decided to gussy them up just a bit.
Soon as I take some pics I will post the project.
Meanwhile if you want to collect stuff, need glue, sewing machine and scraps cut off various papers like ledger or printer sheets, I always cut off the plain parts if I print something.
Also fabric and trim scraps. Small bits.

I have to swim in my master class most of the day so it will be later.
See if you can guess the item.

Paris nights, cushion

Fini.
Ready to go now.
You can see how I made this in the video.

Check out Classes and more.

Finally have a camera to use.

My previous camera was involved in a bit of trauma.
Also available on YouTube.

Winner of give away

Congratulations to Kiwifruit-Shiree.

Has won the lace in little bag shown below.
Thanks to all who came by my place.

Someone from down under, lovely.
Send me address please, aloha

vintage purse

Made from old laces and ribbons.

Very vintage , very chic!

Not another!

Of course, my love for boxes is ongoing.
This one has left the Islands but here is a peak.
I love all the quotes that surround the lid.

I will share some French lace, until 10th Feb.

To give this Valentine month.
A lace bag-let and 2 meters of French val lace edging
wrapped lovingly around an old French letter.
You know how to comment!

Valentines galore

had the 3 little girls and their Mum over for another craft day.
I pulled out all my boxes of buttons, trinkets, feathers, flowers, trims etc. and let them go.
I had sewn the blank felt hearts, they made Monks cord hangers, and glued all the stuff on.
I did not help them design so they are all their own creations.
Good job girls!