But in between all of that, there is a certain amount of sofa time, as it's also very important that I rest just as much as I keep active - it's a fine balancing act that I'm beginning to get the hang of!
Hopping about from one job to the next so much, and also being a naturally creative person, everything has conspired to make me totally unable to just 'sit'. I get very bored very quickly, and therefore always have some kind of project on the go to keep my hands and a tiny part of the brain busy while I'm enjoying what can sometimes be very lengthy 'rests'.
This page therefore is my place to detail my latest non wedding related projects and ideas, whether fully completed or just hatched, with the most recent at the top. Enjoy xx
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| The same pattern as below, but this time for Miss, so rather more girlie colours used, including the rejected turquoise patches that were originally for what became the purple and pink one. I still have some dark turquoise patches made up but no yet used, so I supposed at some point I'll be making another one of these.... |
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| This was a Christmas Pressie for Grams. It was originally going to be purples and turquoises to go in her bedroom, but then she moved house and left the bedroom behind so I had to have a rethink. Trouble was I'd already made the turquoise patches so they had to be used elsewhere... |
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| The crochet obsession continues on, with another poncho. This time the pattern I was using worked so I stuck with it. It's not meant to be stripy, and in fact isn't as stripy as it appears in the photo - the yarn for this is supposed to create a 'painterly' effect in shades of dusky pink, purples, blues and greens. I think 'painterly' is meant to be mean randomly multi-coloured... whatever, it's definitely a made up word |
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| This was an accidental craft project - a very plain coat that reminded me too much of my old school coat got subjected to a Pammie makeover. Flower and leaf shapes cut from felt and some simple embroidery with tapestry wool, plus a change of buttons transformed it from a perfectly nice but rather green coat into a designer original that would cost hundreds to buy... cost me a total of £40! |
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| The crochet obsession continues - this time with a poncho made from wonderful gorgeous yarn and a really easy pattern that I'm pleased to say I made up myself. It's lovely and snuggly, and slightly less blue than it appears in the photo! |
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| Still mastering crochet here, I found a book that had loads of different stitches in it, made up in squares that were then all joined together to make this gorgeous throw. It was a brilliant way of really getting to grips with the hook, the techniques and the pattern abbreviations. On completing this in about a month, I declared myself an crocheter. |
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| Over the long weekend of the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday in June 2012, I threw a bit of paddy and decided I would no longer be defeated by the one stitchy craft I had never mastered. So I got a book, found some videos on Youtube, got out my hook and taught myself to crochet. This scarf was proper project number one and the start of a mild obsession. |
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| I completed this lovely Cross Stitch lady in record time while recovering from a minor operation on my nose (not cosmetic!), and couldn't lean forward for fear of nose bleeds! |
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| Chew Valley Arts Trail 2011 - every year I have taken part, I have always tried to come up with a new idea, and in 2011 it was silk and embroidery. I made evening bags, purses and pendants, all using assorted silk scraps and then embroiders with silk floss, beads and sequins. They were extremely well received but badly timed, as no one had any money to spend, so they are almost all still with me and are still for sale!! |
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| My love of wedding dresses actually stemmed from a childhood fascination with historical costume. I did a lot of research on clothing from a number of different eras and so know my stuff fairly well, which is why, when my kids were studying The Tudors at school , I offered to go in do a little talk for them about the clothing, the fabrics and the complicated rules involved in dressing at court. To illustrate what I was talking about, I raided my silk store and cobbled together a mock Tudor dress, made the theatre way, ie very inaccurately. But it did the trick quite nicely, and the whole class were amazed at how heavy it was (not nearly heavy enough as I didn't have all the right bits) and were horrified at the idea of wearing something like this on a hot summer's day. They weren't too impressed with the idea of boned bodices either - I used steels, not whale bone!! |
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I love Cross stitch. I don't design my own, but I'm a little bit addicted
to buying and working kits. I'm particularly fond of the more modern
style kits - cartoons and silly things, which is why I seriously fell for these
gorgeous fairies.
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