Upcycling vintage wool skirts

I've spent my weekend giving vintage wool skirts a new life as funky little scotty dogs.
This particular wool is awesome as a softie as its so textural and tactile, not to mention the gorgeous colour.


I was also inspired by this beautiful blog to carve some rubber stamps and have given my little scottie dogs a matching wee scottie dog stamped tag. It's so much fun carving stamps! Takes me back to lino cutting days at school. For those of you in Melbourne, I got most of the supplies from Melbourne Etching Supllies in Fitzroy and the inks from a seller on ebay.

You can find Mr Scottie Dog for sale here :)

Fernando

Can you hear the drums

fernando?
I remember long ago another starry night like this
In the firelight fernando
You were humming to yourself and softly strumming your guitar
I could hear the distant drums
And sounds of bugle calls were coming from afar....

My (new) creative space

Well the big move is complete, and my new creative space is part of our bedroom and our bed and the front hallway and most nights the lounge room floor. I have been huddled in from of the heater most nights sorting washing and replacing lids on buttons for the market. Mostly while watching bad cop shows. Riveting stuff I can tell you.


I am slowly settling into this new arrangement- I'm currently working on a woolen owl called Fernando. I spent hours deciding which buttons to use for his eyes- it's hard to decide when you have 30,000 to choose from!

My Creative Space is hosted by kootoyoo

Thank you Thornbury!

We had a wonderful Day at the Thornbury Community Market :)
Thank you to everyone who came along and especially to all of you who gave our little friends a new home. It was great to meet some talented local crafters and so many lovely local people. We left the market feeling very happy to live where we do!
So the next Market will be in September and I will spend the cold winter months creating some wonderful new things so stay tuned :)
I will also be listing lots of new stuff on Made it over the coming week.

Some new additions to the doll family, one of which is still in the making... I really want to make multicultural dolls, but I'm finding it hard to get fabric the right skin tones. I think i will have to dye some myself.
Escher and I made badges today for the market. We made them from vintage kids books and fabric bits. We are going to make fridge magnets too, as we got lots of magnet backs thrown in when we brought the badge maker. I think we will put old school kitchen appliances on them.
And the final shot is a suitcase full of goodies for the market.
I have a blister on my finger from the scissors.

Cool for Cats

Ok, now I'm actually getting somewhere with making stuff for the May stall. Today I made these beauties. All from exceptional vintage fabrics- most of my favourites fom my stash are there. That tropical print with the blue background is amazing, and there's the yellow spotty linen, the purple 70's barkcloth and the incredible 50's barkcloth.

Then this photo got me thinking, exactly what is the collective noun for cats? According to AskOxford.com the most commonly used term is a clowder. Commonly used? I've certainly never heard anyone say that. Have you? Maybe it's because cat's don't often hang out in groups, we don't get much opportunity to say 'oh my, look at that great clowder of cats there'! :)

Tomorrow it's owls and chocolate hot cross buns....

You can these for sale here :)

Dish of the day: Pastasaurus!

Today's creation was inspired by last nights family reading of 'Megs Eggs' (as in Meg, Mog and Owl)... while the Stegasaurus cracked out of the giant egg, and Escher made sound effects (creak, crack), I busily drew and cut a pattern in my head....
He turned out rather well I think! So well that Escher has decided he has to keep him and call him Pasta (what else would one call ones dinosaur?). he's made out the left over fabric from Charlie's baby quilt.
Today he came everywhere with us. An older lady we were talking to asked Escher what sort of dinosaur he was, and to this he of course replied 'pastasaurus'.
So cute! :)