Weekend love

Saturday morning walk.


More tomatoes, this time grown from seed in an egg carton. How exciting!


Cute Auntie Cookie shoes bought at the Sisters' Market in Brunswick. Lovely to finally meet Shannon after a few fabric swaps!

Brrrr need a log cabin cushion

It was sooo cold tonight and I stupidly went out with footless tights on, ie: bare ankles, and I had no beanie. This combined with a bicycle and speeding around & some rain = a lot of freezingness. So when I got home I decided I needed to turn the heater up and make a log cabin cushion cover (or something like a log cabin cushion cover - can't remember exactly what they're supposed to look like...) while eating Lindt dark chocolate.


That's a shot of all the cut bits stuck next to each other...which looks rather unimpressive compared to the pillow's current status - all the bits sewn together...but you get the idea. The fabric is a combination of random polka dots and bits and pieces and then lots of fabric from Auntie Cookie, Lotta Jansdotter & stuff that I've screen printed. Can't wait to get it all sewn up tomorrow and fingers crossed it will look half as good as the brilliant ones Lisa Congdon has made.

It's Anzac Day, part II

What better way to spend the afternoon than trying to figure out how to make a much needed pin cushion, and one which you've decided must be square (thanks to this sticking in my mind from when I first saw it.)

It took a few shots to get it right (ie: actually square - well, almost square) but it seemed to work out OK in the end, and has been put to use already. And now it's dark outside and it's not even 6pm - darn the fact that the days are getting shorter.

Oh, and the fabric is a mix of a couple of brilliant Aunty Cookie designs, that just happen to be printed in the same colour ink and with the same basecloth (totally matching). The bottom is a woolen felt, a mottled grey (my fave, not that you can actually see it!).

Land of softies

Had the urge to make some mini-softies yesterday, inspired by some Auntie Cookie fabric I got recently, and some old screen printing of mine that I found. Welcome to the land of mini softies, it looks like a fun place to be. These guys are small (think: pin cushion size), and backed with polka dotted fabric.

And this is Elephant #34, made from some lovely Japanese 'letters, numbers and keys' fabric from a recent fabric shopping expedition.

New & old

Elephant #32

Elephant #33

These are made with lovely Aunty Cookie fabric & polka dot ears (top) and delightful Lotta Jansdotta fabric (bottom) and I don't think they're going anywhere in a hurry as I want to keep them!

Now I need to get onto some orders, to be made with recent purchases from Patchwork on Central Park, just about the best shop ever.


And I recently found this tea towel I made, stashed away with a heap of other stuff. It serves as a good reminder that I need to get on to doing more screen printing. It's messy, yes, and things go wrong, yes, but it's darn fun. Now just need to find some good cotton, non-drill &/or linen fabric to print onto - no easy task, I'm sure, based on previous searches.

My Fabric

Photo © Aunty Cookie.

OK, so it's kinda small, but that's my Akzidenz fabric (ABC etc) in the front cushion, made by Aunty Cookie - how exciting! And how great are her fabrics (pretty much all the other fabric). It's the first time (I think) that mine's been used by someone else to make something. It could be enough to motivate me to get onto making more of the above, and the new idea I've got that I've been procrastinating about for ages.

Oh, and these are for sale in Aunty Cookie's Etsy shop, but most of them are already sold.