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A Prince among wood sprites? Surely he must be! Look he has a crown on!? I’ve put in place a self-imposed ban on making these sprites as they seem to be quickly taking over the house! Until I start making more again I’m just going to drip feed the existing ones to you! Available to [...]
A few weeks ago I came across this tutorial on Holidash but it uses glue and I’m really not a glue person. Nonetheless, I saved it in my favourites and last week I finally decided to have a go, using stitches in place of the glue. I won’t pretend it wasn’t fiddly but I’m guessing [...]
I have blogged about these before, so won’t bore you with the details again. I have been trying to get some decent individual shots of them though and having struggled with lighting and props I finally managed to get some pictures for the shop, I’m rather please with them so I thought I might as [...]
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A few weeks ago we had a spring clean of our supplies and I came across some really nice pieces of denim fabric that I was going to use for pocket pillow backs (and I still might) but I had an overwhelming urge to make denim fabric finches. The first was sewn up before I [...]
As promised – the sock creatures I was working on last weekend…I was very busy, although I must admit that the sock monkey took the best part of two weeks (between real work, you know, the one that pays the mortgage!) First up, that sock monkey. A real labour of love. They are very easy [...]
Hitchcock’s, The Birds, was one of my favourite films as I grew up, the eerie notion that birds of all shapes and sizes should be overcome with an insatiable lust for human flesh, attacking young and old alike without provocation and otherwise simply sitting and waiting on some playground climbing frame for their next unsuspecting [...]
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We were recently gifted this painting by my mother who, after a long period of abstention, has finally lifted a paintbrush again. Jolene and I were delighted to receive it, not least of all since it’s a painting of our (and our neighbours) house, it’s based on a photo from a couple of years back [...]
Hmm…wonder what these are If I turn my back will they move? Nope…but they did get shinier…you saw that, right? Oh well, best be on my way now. In the shop now
You’ll need: printer paper sharp needle sharp scissors 6″ x 4″ piece of felt 36″ of 6 stranded embroidery thread stuffing Stitches used: Blanket Lazy Daisy Instructions: Click on the pattern below and print and cut it out. It’s sized to A4 so you’ll need to make sure your page size is set to [...]
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This will probably be the final batch of plant pokes until after Christmas as ‘other priorities’ take over … also, the workshop gets hellish cold at this time of year due to gaping gaps under the doors and roof which may as well not be there when the cold winter gales get going! Click image [...]
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