After a week of making earrings, I've packed all my beads away and decided to have a go at using an antique and sadly past its best quilt. It's heavily moth-eaten, but I really like the effect, especially on the border where the background ink was apparently tastier than the floral design. A lot of the remaining fabric was loose from the backing, so I've machine embroidered over the loose pieces in a colourmatched thread, which is really fun :) So far, I'm thinking stuffed he

Rummaging through past creations, I found these lovely machine embroidered felt heart brooches. They were a lot of fun to make! See more photos on my craft page :)

My experimental alphabet painting is finally finished & photographed, and I'm pretty pleased with the results. It was a real exercise in control - not just of the paint, but also of when to stop. It's not perfect, but that's the whole point. Part of me wants to go back and re-paint the H, but a better part of me says no. I really enjoyed painting this, seeing how thin I could get the outlines, and playing around with textures. I haven't traditionally been patient enough to wo

The weather this afternoon goes quite nicely with making Christmas crafts. Of course, I actually started these on a sunny day in August, but we'll let that slide. (It's becoming increasingly obvious that I need to get a phone with a better camera! Apologies for the fuzzy - my contract ends in December...)