While I Am Sewing...

... and thus failing to update my blog, here are some half-inched pictures to look at. I keep looking at them over and over and I thought you might like to look at them too. They are images of the "deathcycle" from EtsyLabs, from their "Handmade Life-cycle vs. Mass-produced Deathcycle Quilt"... and they are (quite frankly) awesome.

Bad Photos of Nice Things

I am still tidying and clearing out and rearranging and sewing lots and lots of things... this is what our kitchen table looked like a couple of nights ago:

My work-in-progress / ready-to-sew boxes - absolutely crammed with pieces of felt as I have lots of schemes on the go!

These are the product of that evenings sewing, two specially requested penguin brooches and lots of discs for a mobile...

Close-up (and much less blurry) shot of the penguins (I adore these little guys!) :

Oh, and I've been conducting very successful experiments with my shiny new printer so I can now add lovely new prints to my shop (artwork by my mother-in-law) :

Trying to get organised

Oh to be organised! At the moment, I'm really not. I flit from one project to another leaving a big fat mess in my wake and the house is starting to look pretty shoddy because of it...

So at the moment I am trying to tidy up, to finish things, to store things better and to have a clear-out. All at the same time, whilst trying to crack on with some sewing too. Lots to do...

I'm currently finishing a load of map tags that have lain unfinished for a couple of months...

... a big stack of wildflower envelopes that I cut out ages ago but never stuck together...

... and lots of things involving felt!
Trying to get my shop nicely stocked, too, which is being slightly hindered by Etsy being a bit lame at the moment (running very slowly, items apparently taking days to show up in searches etc) and also by the overcast & rainy few days we've just had (that sort of weather makes all my pictures turn out blue).

Oh, and I had an idea for this month's design challenge (Fairy Tales) but I doubt very much that I have the talent to actually make it turn out how it is in my mind's eye! Ah well, I shall give it a go anyway.

I Like Your Shoes

It is ridiculously hot here. I don't want to work at all, I've just been crashed out on the sofa drinking oodles of water and keeping myself entertained by sewing more delicious Askey treats.

Just finished this one, a version of "I like your shoes"...