I can’t believe that we’re already over a week into 2014 and
I haven’t posted since Christmas Eve – I suppose it has been a rather busy time
though but I did have time to photograph some of the things I mentioned in the last blog. |
| Turquoise, woven scarf |
These are the magnetic scarf fasteners I mentioned as well - two made of felt and one of silk fabric - I hope they'll prove popular.
Christmas was the usual happy blend of family, overeating
and general indolence and there didn’t seem any point hurrying the getting down
to work again as we were going away for New Year. So, until then, I read the craft book which
I’d been given as a present, spent many happy hours on craft websites and
Pinterest and generally indulged myself.
New Year was spent in Llandudno, which, apart from it being
rather wet and cold, was lovely. In fact
we did have a nice day on New Year’s Eve and spent most of it outside
walking. We stayed until 2nd
January and, on the way home, as a final treat we went to Abakhan at Mostyn –
it doesn’t take much to please me! I
spent a couple of hours there, browsing through the craft, yarns and fabrics
and then, after a pleasant lunch we came home.
Needless to say I couldn’t leave without spending some money although
most of it was on mundane stuff like interfacing, elastic, felt, and wadding. However, I did treat myself to
some plain white cotton so that I can experiment with dyeing and some craft
cotton for patchwork. I also bought 3
balls of novelty yarn in shades of red so that I can start weaving the scarf/shrug
which, after several false starts, Liz
and I set up on the loom - we will get
better!!!
Since we got home I’ve almost completed a strip
patchwork/embroidered picture – it isn’t quite what I set out to make – it’s
far more densely stitched that I first envisaged – and just needs a bit more
hand embroidery and mounting or framing, or both.
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