Posted in badges, exhibitions, tagged badges, exhibitions on May 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned this a little while ago, but some of my badges are going to be in an exhibition!
It’s called REVEAL – a showcase of quality hand-made craft.
It’s on from Sunday 6th to Saturday 12th July, 10am to 5pm every day, and entry is free.
It’s at the Henley Exhibition Centre.
The website has a gallery of [...]
Posted in nature, photos, tagged nature, photos on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon, after we’d become bored with scraping the dirt off the house, Paul and I went for a walk in The Wilderness. It’s part of the University campus, and somewhere I spent quite a lot of time when I was a student.
Paul took photographs, and I talked to geese. :)
Posted in badges, exhibitions, tagged badges, exhibitions on May 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I have been mostly making lots and lots of badges.
This probably wasn’t a very clever thing to do with a bad wrist, but I needed to get some photographs taken to send to Lauren Denney. She’s organising an exhibition of local artists, and she saw my badges on Etsy and invited me to take [...]
Posted in shoes, tagged shoes, slippers on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, I’ve made a few pairs of slippers now, and they seemed to go quite well. I thought I would attempt the next stage in the experiment towards being able to make my own shoes.
In the left hand photo, the slippers have completely finished uppers. At this point I would normally attach a felt [...]
Posted in shoes, tagged shoes, slippers on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After the slight technical difficulty with Daniel’s slippers I did a bit of unpicking and attached the soles in a slightly different way.
Here they are, with big brother Edward’s skull slippers, enjoying the sunshine:
Both of these pairs were made from drawings of the boys’ feet.
I’m slightly concerned that Daniel and Edward won’t be heavy enough [...]
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping, tagged inspiration, shoes, shopping on May 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really must get a move-on and work out how to make little canvas shoes.
The Nice Man Who Knows About Feet told me that I shouldn’t be wearing Converse any more, so I sold my yellow pair with daisies and ladybirds to . I still have a pinstripe pair that didn’t sell, and I [...]
Posted in shoes, tagged shoes, slippers on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I’ve been making slippers for Daniel, my colleague’s smallest son.
I’ve been following the instructions from Kwik Sew pattern 3323.
The Kwik Sew pieces are simple ovals, which can be worn on either foot, so I drew out my own pattern pieces to make them the same shape as Daniel’s feet. I then assembled all the [...]
Posted in exhibitions, shoes, tagged exhibitions, shoes, slippers on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
, your slippers are finished! I hope you like them. :)
This pair were made to fit a drawing of ’s feet, which she sent to me using the Power of the Internet. I now need to post them across the Atlantic, and hope that they fit when they get there!
These are made in the same [...]
Posted in skirts, tagged skirts on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Remember the scalloped skirt that I started working on the other day?
I’ve just finished it, and I’m really pleased!
(Please excuse the gormless squinty face – that’s the first time I’ve used the self-timer on the camera, and I couldn’t tell when it had taken the picture!)
Ta-daa! Two views of the same skirt. This is [...]
Posted in fabric, tagged fabric on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Look what I’ve got!
Paul’s Mum very kindly gave me a set of ten fat quarters. Aren’t they beautiful?
They’re Rowan fabrics which were designed by Kaffe Fassett, and hand woven in India with the support of Oxfam.
They go absolutely perfectly with the Bishopston fabrics, so at the moment I’m thinking of some lightweight cotton coats, with [...]
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