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It seems like forever and a day since I originally thought about giving my bonnie birds wings, indeed, it seems like forever and a day since I actually started making this one! Based around the same principles as it’s forebears I had to add some additional armature to build the wings both from a practical [...]
I think I may be becoming a fanatic, well, maybe not quite; although I did find myself outside in the rain this morning pulling weeds and re-arranging pots!? The garden really has quite a lure to me, being confined to quarters over the winter and suffering a wee bit with cabin fever really makes you [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about It’s a bit like the Hitchcock classic around here
I had promised to have this finished by April 2009, so obviously I’m delighted to have finished it before it goes a full year past my own self-imposed ‘due date’! Like most of his erstwhile and largely forgotten friends Gruber is keen on world domination, although it’s perhaps telling that he and his cohorts are [...]
Ages and ages ago I knitted this sheep from the pattern on the Flutterby Patch blog. It’s taken me this long to get photos of it. This is such an easy and quick pattern that anyone with half an idea about knitting can make one. So, anyway, this particular sheep is called Mary. One day [...]
This tartan chap was created as a commission this weekend. In keeping with our attempts to reduce waste, he’s made from a piece of tartan that would have otherwise been binned and some ecospun felt. Stuffed, as usual, with reclaimed polyester stuffing. He’s got a bit of a problem though. Whilst out for his morning [...]
Jolene and I spent a couple of hours last night collaborating on this Christmas Wreath for the front door last night, we’re fairly pleased with the end result even if I did get pricked so many times by the pine needles that my hands broke out in a mild allergic reaction that made it look [...]
I’ve been meaning to make these for an age and whilst the inspiration is very much borne of the spring time the design is based on an earlier bowl I made way back when, here. I don’t know about you, but as we prepare to plunge into the depths of winter (haven’t we already plunged?) [...]
Jolene has been experimenting with some different fabric for her felt finches and come up with these wee charmers. On the one hand we have a wee tartan or light tweed fellow and on the other we have an adorable little fluff ball, incredibly soft to the touch made out of a deep polar fleece. [...]
Continue reading about Fabric Finches ~ an alternative to the felt bird
This week I’ve been working on some commissioned felt birds. These ones are a departure from the ones in the shop in that they are made from 100% wool felt and if these are typical of the results to be gained from spending a few extra pennies up front, I think I’ll be using 100% [...]
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