Holiday?

Where did my holiday go? 4 weeks and 1 day til I move back to sunny Preston.

I got a confirmation of my place on the textiles course this year (yay!) and in the envelope was also my holiday project....(grrrr, how could you, UCLan?)...and a letter saying that the uni are running a trip to New York in February/March next year! Better get saving, since it's £600!! Very exciting, I've never been abroad! :D

Going for lunch at my brother's new house with the parents tomorrow, then a friend's birthday party in the evening, then to a festival in Bedfordshire next weekend - hopefully it won't be this rainy! Busy busy busy! My knitting is progressing very slowly.


The holiday project is fairly naff, though...we have to collect things that reflect our personal interests and experience of Summer, put them in a bottle, then do a sketchbook based on the objects. I was thinking of holding it outside in the rain. But that doesn't really reflect my interests... and wouldn't be very fun to draw.

Here are a few bits and pieces I've done so far -

Print blocks

Prints


Ink and Glue

Learning to knit...badly.

I have never quite managed to grasp knitting very well, and since I have a fair bit of time on my hands, and a children's knitting book, I thought I'd give it a go... again.

When our elderly next door neighbour died, her family kindly gave me a huge bag of mixed yarns to use, so I'm aiming to make a knitted paperchain for my uni room this year, to make it a bit less grim!


Next project (eventually) will be a teacosy for an ace 70's brown teapot my mum found for me. :)


Finally some of my new cake brooches are available on Folksy, also in the lovely Queenies Cupcakery in Ironbridge. More will be listed online in the next few days, along with some of my recycled plastic heart brooches.

Hand Painted Loveliness

I listed three new items today - hand painted faux leather and felt brooches - made from this.




Available in my Folksy shop now, they are £5.00 each.

Primark bags

I bought a cheap little satchel-ish bag from Primark (yes, I know, but there's no point having an expensive bag when it's only going to get covered in paint or glue) a little while ago, and the other day caught the strap on a door handle. Massive un-stitchable rip. :(


Cut it up, and working on some new designs including the fabric from it.



Also going to use the lining as a sketchbook cover, as it's got a zipped pocket stitched in. Discovered whilst disassembling the bag that a hair pin works as a great quick-unpick!


Always better to reuse things, if you can't repair them, eh? :)