MINI ILLUSTRATIONS

I've drawn a series of mini illustrations. Each of these are one-offs and are for sale for $15.... email me if you're interested and let me know which one you'd like.  

 

FRIDAY

I'm trying to keep busy this winter so I don't end up on the couch watching tv series eating milo from the tin.... So yesterday I made 5 cushions.... I learnt how to to properly sew and invisible zip (thank you internet) and nervously cut up some of my favourite fabrics.    scarf from sample sale at work and mina perhonen's flower bed LINX x Lucinda Newton Dunn furshiki and Mociun front and back shot of this spotty guy, fabric from another sample sale

QUILT

I finally finished this bitch.

SO FAR

My goodness this year is flying by.... a lot has happened.....birthdays...big decisions made about the next couple of years (I'll be able to share more about this soon!)... and the biggy... our wedding!!!(post and photos to come!) But just quickly wanted to share the bits and bobs I made in the 6 week pottery class we just completed. I got 16 'vessels'. Throwing was sooooo fun, messy and slippery... Turning was easily my favourite process though.... you can start to see the profile and personality coming out... and then glazing.... which was a bit of a gamble, some of the under glazes turned out pretty nasty... had a few successful little guys though and will definitely be doing the next set of classes! above are the lovely/tricksy under glaze colours before firing... and below are the finished ones.... unforch most of these are going to be presents..... 
Particularly happy with this little guy.. bit of an experiment with multiple layers of glaze.   My utensil holder needs a bit of help keeping things upright, bit short and squat.....

CHRISTMAS AND FRIDAY

A lesser lover of Christmas would have been drained of their holiday spirit years ago.... but not this moi..... I'm still completely jazzed by it....... it makes me remember long summer holidays of being dropped off at the Halls Gap pool at 9am and picked up at 5pm... the sun damage gives me nightmares, but oh to spend the entire summer in a blurry haze of chlorine affected vision again.... twas bliss.
I've been faffing around with Christmas Tree ideas this year... and after 2 fails (my hat rack came dangerously close to being thrown off the balcony) I've settled on a very simple mt tape outline... I'd say it's ok only..

Recently I've been pretty flat out on the weekends doing wedding stuff, it's getting fun seeing it all come together.... so far it's looking like a fun mess of food and colour... should be a good day! Anyway I had a 'wedding free' day on Friday and it was so lovely.........I walked with Leon to work, had a sneaky hour of playground time with a dear friend and her bub, then popped in to the Design Files open house (purchased a few wee treats) then walked home, hung out with mum for the arvo and had finished the day off with a yum dinner with my sister (she made sticky black rice with mango... ughhhhhhhhhh delish!)..... perfection!
below are a few snaps and highlights from the Design Files open house.

BABY BFF

I'm not super great at finishing things off.... and I like to go fast on my sewing machine.... so here are some untimely and messy treats for two of the cutest little girls going around!

NANI IRO

Waiting for me when I got home last night was a parcel of Nani Iro fabrics...what a treat!..... my love for these spotty fabrics knows no bounds... and then the buzzer rang.... my Toast salt water sandals had arrived... double treat!

I know 2 little girls that should be expecting a spotty baby blanket surprise!


above - double gauze.
below - double knit.

A quilt slowly being made by me

Cross detail on the back to hide my terrible sewing...... looked a bit cute so I did it on all corner joins.

I made the front piece for this quilt some time last year and then got stuck back into it about 3 weeks ago, I'm not the best sewer so I kept it pretty simple and there was no real planning, just patched it all together and it turned out square...... not sure how.
I'm waiting for our next Japan trip in June to purchase some super thick tape/binding from Fog Linen to finish it all off.
Or if anyone knows where I can get 10cm-ish bias binding from?..... It seems that it's only being made in mini sizes.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON EMBROIDERY

I made this heart embroidery for a large frame I bought a couple of weeks ago..... got to the end and it didn't fit in the frame....... classic Lansell. So for now it's going back in the fabric box until I am less annoyed with it.

1638

And so it is done... well nearly... sewing it together is taking a long time.
I go through fazes where I like it and then I don't...... it's fun looking and then it's way too busy.....
It's by far the biggest home project I've undertaken... 1638 felt balls.....
I ended up going with a geo because the random mixed up option was fit inducing.
Final sewn together photos to come!

Felt Ball Rug

So the felt ball rug saga continues....it's not really a saga, more a painfully slow pruney finger drainer......
I have done 43 colours.... 17 to go.... although there is this horrid purple called Grape Crush that I'm pretty sure I'll leave out... 16 to go!!
I'm not sure which way to sew it all together...... Circular or Lines.... any opinions??

PICNIC BLANKET

I bought this check fabric in Montemartre (I was lucky enough to be able to tag along with Leon on a work trip late last year!), after coming down the steps of Sacre Coeur you get to the yucky touristy bit and head left and there is a whole strip of fabric shops, defo worth a look!!......oh and just around the corner from that is an A.P.C outlet store where I bought a bright coral canvas and leather weekend bag!!. The gingham oil cloth I picked up from a decidedly less exciting area.... Malvern, but the shop itself is quite nice and they stock Nani Iro which makes it worth the trip!
Buying this fabric was about 5000 times funner than making this picnic blanket....... Oil cloth is a mole... never again shall I subject my lovely sewing machine to its stretchy ways!...... But now I have this lovely 1.5x 2.5m picnic blanket, which according to my measurements, will fit 7 bums, 2 babies and 1 picnic basket..... PERFECT!!

CHRISTOPHER

Christopher guarding Kyoto and London.

THE TREE

My makeshift Christmas tree, a bit over the top?? Sure.