Something Exciting, Coming Soon!

Well, I'm excited about it, anyhow. The new issue of Mollie Makes is out soon (subscriber copies have just been sent out) and look what's on the cover...

... a felt phone case designed (and stitched) by me! Yay!

(Remember that rainbow-themed project I was working on a couple of months ago? This is it).

I should probably act all cool and professional about this but eeeeek it is just too thrilling. I've designed projects for magazines before but this is my first "cover project", and Mollie Makes is such a lovely magazine.

I am very much looking forward to seeing the magazine "in person" (and showing it to my mum) and to standing around grinning like an idiot if I spot it on the shelves of my local newsagent :)

Flocks of Robins

Last night I worked on a big batch of robins - well, two batches really...
One lot are still works in progress and destined to be brooches and ornaments for Etsy and elsewhere. The other set have been finished and delivered to their temporary new home, a lovely shop where they've already taken roost amongst lots of shiny Christmas things:
I'm sure it's terribly silly of me but gosh it is exciting seeing my little robins in amongst all those festive lovelies!

Keeping Busy

I might have finished my Crafting 365 project, but the daily crafting habit is a hard one to break! Here are a few of the things I've been sewing over the past week or so...
... lots of almost-finished things, poppy brooches, little robins and fox brooches. I've also been re-stocking lots of masks and beards and working on a few new things which I'll be revealing soon!

In other news, I am giddy with excitement today as my copy of Little Thing arrived today - all the way from China and complete with a free brooch:
So thrilling! It's interesting to see the small differences in the layout from the pages I was sent, and I'm glad to see all my moustache models are still featured. You can read my interview in English here if you want...

UPDATE: My poppy and fox designs are now available as sewing patterns! Visit my shop to see all my printable PDF patterns

It's the Little Things...

A little while ago I did an interview for a fantastic new Chinese magazine called Little Thing and today I got to see what my pages look like!
It's my very first mention in real live print, and seeing my work amongst features of awesome artists like sushipot, jengsshop and kjoo (whose work you can see on the final spread) and the most gorgeous, whimsical fashion shoots ... *sigh*
I love what they've done with all my little pictures (especially the teeny tiny bluetit next to my web address). I'll put the English text of my interview up sometime soon - in the meantime see if you can spot the snippet of it here:
I am so excited about this, and have spent the whole day with a huge grin on my face. I'm even excited about appearing on a contents page! Right, calming down for a moment I did manage to take my 365 snap: On day 363, lots of lovely autumnal-looking poppies! I think "to poppy" is practically a verb now, I am so obsessed with making these. I poppy, you poppy, he/she/it poppies, etc. On second thoughts, perhaps not! Too much excitement for me today I think...

UPDATE: My poppy design is now available as a sewing pattern! Visit my shop to see all my printable PDF patterns