Wedding Flowers

Another kind of show and tell today, this time featuring a batch of felt flowers I made as a custom order for a wedding earlier this year.


I was thrilled to get a follow-up email from the buyer this week, with lots of gorgeous photos from the wedding...



Seeing these pics really made me smile, the wedding looks so lovely and I'm so delighted that my work played a part in such a great occasion. Honestly it makes me want to develop a whole wedding range!

Show and Tell, part five

One of the very best things about selling craft supplies is getting to see what my customers have made with their purchases. I send out parcels of felt and other crafty bits and pieces, and they turn into all this lovely stuff! Magic.

Lynn of Tialys has been making lots of textile artworks with a French theme, using my mini embroidery hoops as frames:


Laura Belton used the felt she bought to make a zombie and an adorable plush Totoro:


Sarah of Ditsy Bird Designs put a pack of embroidery thread to good use embroidering some fun fabric brooches:


And Laura of LAMdesigns used some of my pastel felt to make a whole rainbow of cute button needlebooks:


You can read all the show and tell posts here. Want to show off what you've been making? Get in touch!

P.S. please respect the work of my customers as you do mine, and don't copy their designs :)

A Knitters Picnic

It was World Wide Knit in Public Day on Saturday, and our knitting club had a picnic to celebrate.


We were really lucky to have great weather for it and spent many happy hours knitting and meeting all the people who had heard about the event and come along to join in. The local radio station popped by to interview us, the local paper took some photos and some lovely people from a local cafe came along and served free teapigs tea for all us thirsty knitters (so yummy!).



Lots of passers by came over to chat to us, too, and I think we're going to feature in the photo albums of lots of the tourists visiting Gloucester Cathedral that day!

(Many thanks to Esther, who took the photos)

Birthday giveaway - results

Thanks so much to everyone who entered my special birthday giveaway - and an extra special thanks for all your birthday wishes! :)

The winner was picked at random, and is Patricia who said... "OMG!!! Happy Birthday!!! I think I had already told you but it doesn´t hurt to say that again!!! This is an awesome lot!!! I´d be more than happy to win it and keep it to myself and my little girls! Thanks!"

Hurrah!

Things have been a bit quiet here on the blog lately, hope you haven't missed me too much, heehee. I've got lots of fun posts planned for this week to make up for it!

An English country garden

I've been getting some inspiration from my neighbours' lovely gardens this week - the abundance of flowers has got me daydreaming about colours and musing on possible floral designs for the future.

Do you have a favourite flower? Mine changes a lot, but I'm particularly loving foxgloves at the moment...


Taking that last photo reminded me that I tried to make a honeysuckle brooch a couple of years ago, made a list of possible improvements for attempt #2 and then forgot all about it! This sort of thing happens to me a lot. I must add "honeysuckle" to my (rather long) making list...

Birthday Giveaway

As promised, I'm having a giveaway to celebrate my birthday...

One lucky person will win this lot:


A bow brooch, a primrose brooch, a plush birdie brooch, an oak leaf brooch, a star rosette brooch and a lovely 100% wool felt flower hair comb. Keep them for yourself, or give them as gifts to all your felt-loving friends!

As always, I'm happy to ship internationally, so anyone can enter. Just leave a comment before midnight BST (British Summer Time) on Saturday 12th June on this post and I'll pick a winner at random on Sunday (13th June).

Please make sure you leave a name or pseudonym (no anonymous comments please!) and be sure to come back next Sunday to see if you got picked :)

UPDATE: this giveaway is now closed!

Knit Knit Knit

Knitting continues to dominate my "spare time" crafting at the moment. The boyfriend even bought me a knitting bag for my birthday! It's the perfect size for carrying loads of "on the go" projects, spare balls of yarn and the big knitting book my mum bought me:


Our knitting group has decided to knit blanket squares for a charity project. I'm hoping to try out some "proper" patterns soon like this cute hat pattern (modelled by the youngest member of our knitting group!)...


... but in the meantime the blanket squares are keeping me busy! I've been knitting in the Post Office (it makes queuing much less dull) and curling up with a square in front of the telly in the evenings. I've discovered I can even knit them while watching the subtitles on the Swedish version of Wallander - hurrah.

We've received lots of balls of donated yarn for our blanket square project, including some of this fancy stuff...


... I've not knitted with that kind of yarn before, so it was really fun to try it out.


It was surprisingly easy to knit with, and hides mistakes wonderfully amongst all that fluff, but goodness knows how you count how many rows you've done!

Birthday Treats

It's my birthday! Woohoo!

To share the birthday love I'm having a special 24 hour sale in all my shops: 10% off ALL items in any of my shops (excludes shipping). Please pay as normal and I'll refund the 10% via Paypal. Sale ends 2nd June at midday (British Summer Time).

UPDATE: the sale has now finished.

I'll also be having some special birthday giveaways here on the blog this week :)

Custom Colours

This week I've mostly been doing admin, which is very dull and makes for rubbish photographs! So, here's one I made earlier... work-in-progress pics of a custom abstract mobile I made recently.

The colours selected:


The finished mobile pieces, ready to be sewn onto narrow burgundy ribbons for hanging:


It's always great fun working on these, and it's always inspiring working with colour combos I wouldn't normally use (I'm especially loving the combination of purple and mint green).

Knit in Public Day

Did you know it's world wide knit in public day soon?

Our knitting group are celebrating it with a picnic on June 12th and I was set the task of taking a suitably summer-y knitting photo for the poster...


The knitting project I'm working on at the moment isn't summer-y at all - a cosy scarf in lovely soft grey "mega chunky" yarn.

It's a great "instant gratification" project as the scarf knits up so quickly! Though I have frogged (unravelled) it twice so far as I kept knitting it too wide (it's ended up as only 10 stitches across). I've never used really chunky yarn before and I'm loving how it makes even the simplest of stitches look fantastic!