Mission Accomplished

I know it sounds utter madness but, for the last 2 or 3 weeks I’ve been making Christmas cards – I was determined that, rather than panic when November arrives, I would have them all made and ready, next year.   So, I have been very busy recycling most of this year’s cards and I now have a bundle of 200 cards ready for next Christmas – all I have to do now is remember where I store them!

Having finished the cards and binding one of the strip patchwork hangings, I now feel justified in making a start on some new projects.   Actually, I’ve already started weaving the scarf I had set up on the loom – it’s not looking bad for a first effort although there’s a long way to go yet.

Because of the awful weather we’ve had, I couldn’t get to my felting group last week which was disappointing but Liz and I did manage to get to the photography group on Wednesday and I’ve spent some time on printing some competition entries this week also.

Yesterday, Liz and I have been to Lark Lane for the first Craft Fair of the new season – we managed to get there, despite the snowfall last night, but I think the conditions put a lot of people off coming out so the footfall was not as good as we’d hoped.  However, there were a few new stallholders as well as the ‘old faces’ and it was as enjoyable as ever.  One of the new stallholders is an illustrator – Shelley Jayne who does some really lovely illustrations and cards – have a look at her website www.shelleyjayne.com

Today, I finally decided that I was brave enough to use the inkjet printer to print on fabric - I’ve been toying with the idea for ages but always got cold feet when it came to it.   Well, I’ve done it and apart from the fact that I’ve had to extricate a couple of threads from the printer (ouch!), it went quite well – the print is certainly well defined and the colour isn’t bad at all – a little more subdued than the original print but quite acceptable.   All I need now is to be able to use the printed fabric creatively – a bit more experimentation may be required – watch this space.