Posted in photos, sewing, tagged sewing, sylko, threads, vintage on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Inspired by Ruth Singer, I’ve spent this afternoon making a wall hanging organiser for all my reels of thread.
(Possibly not the cleverest thing to do when suffering with a bad wrist and a splitting headache, but hey.)
Take one enormous cork board, a hundred and eighteen panel pins, and a big hammer…
I particularly like “Turkey Red [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged banyan, colinette, knitting, madelene, neptune on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the process of knitting a variation on Colinette’s Madelene pattern. It’s in the Parisienne book, but I’m knitting it with Banyan instead. I succumbed to a bargain lot of Banyan on Ebay, and I quite fancied a loosely-knitted cotton jumper for the summer. The colourway is Neptune.
This is the back, and it feels [...]
Posted in badges, exhibitions, tagged badges on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Reveal Showcase exhibition starts next weekend, and just for once I’m prepared well in advance!
I’ve spent today preparing all the badges for display. I’ve used mini cards and postcards from Moo for my packaging. I’m a big fan of Moo, and the mini cards are just the perfect size:
I have forty individual badges, and [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged addi, fetching, get knitted!, knitting, magic loop, regia, rowan cashsoft, silk, simply knitting, socks on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I would like to take a moment to sing the praises of Get Knitted. I ordered some yarn and needles from them on Friday, and they’ve arrived today. (Tuesday.) Their postage rates were extremely reasonable, and they threw in a free pen and a sweetie!
I ordered from Get knitted because they’re a UK supplier of [...]
Posted in corsets, tagged corsets on June 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Ta-Da!
Please excuse my silly grin.
Here are a bunch of photos of my corset mock-up from the pattern that I drafted last week.
Looks pretty good from the front – nice and flat, which I am not! I should have posted a “without” photo, so you could see how much difference this is actually making to my [...]
Posted in FAQ on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All of the entries prior to this one were imported from my two LiveJournals – Design By Claire and Eternal Magpie.
I’m keeping the Eternal Magpie Livejournal, as I’ll be using it to participate in a number of communities there, but I’ll try and keep duplication to a minimum.
Posted in shoes, wedding, tagged etsy, irregular choice, schuh, shoes, wedding on June 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday, Mamfa popped by specifically to leave a comment that she’d seen a pair of Those Shoes in a size 5, in a shop in Leeds.
Mamfa doesn’t know me, she saw my post via the friends list of a community that we both visit. But she had some useful information, and took the time [...]
Posted in shoes, wedding, tagged amazon, irregular choice, schuh, shoes, wedding on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this year, Paul and I got engaged. Presumably this means that at some point in the future there will be a wedding. So, of course, I did what any ridiculously addicted freshly engaged woman would do – I went shoe shopping.
I saw a pair of shoes, by Irregular Choice. I saw them on the [...]
Posted in corsets, tagged corsets on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I spent all morning faffing around with my printer, trying to put together some packaging for my badges, and sadly failed miserably. As a result, I decided to spend the afternoon doing something a little more productive.
So, I made a corset.
This is the first mock-up from the pattern I drafted the other day:
It’s made from [...]
Posted in photos, tagged photos on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I have been mostly Scanning Things In.
I promised Rob that I’d send him a pile of photographs of Things We Did Together. As he’s still very much paper-based and all of my recent photos are online, it made sense that I’d scan the photos in and send the originals to him.
I was a bit [...]
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