Robin in the woods

In a second online workshop led by Mandy Patullo I made this robin. It is a textile collage with scraps of fabric and stitching onto a background of printed fabric. I used a twig from our garden to make it a bit more playful. It has something of a Christmassy feel to it, but not too much, so it doesn’t clash at any other time.

The Thingies and Stuffies Chandelier

If you are a bit like me and find it hard to throw anything in the bin, you might find this idea I've come up with fun and helpful!

All the little things I gathered through the years, broken thingies, stuff my son made years ago, little gifts and freebies, what to do with them? Throw them away and add to the mountain of waste we're producing, or keep them and let Marie Kondo get a fit, should she ever visit your house....?

Well, neither. I chose to make a real Chandelier with them! I present you : the Very Luxurious, Unique and Priceless Thingies and Stuffies Chandelier!!

A little cardboard

Some little ecoline paint and a stitched boat on a piece of cardboard, which became rather nice.

This is a green man

This is a piece about my father-in-law and his favourite things. He has been somewhat under the weather lately so I thought to try and cheer him up a bit.

It's all hand-stitched with some appliqué. I also used some paint. 

I wanted to give it a bit of an old-fashioned sampler-like feel.

By using the same stitches and recurring patterns I tried to increase the unity of the piece.

Plum crazy wrap

This is the Plum crazy wrap, a design by Shannon Dunbabbin. It is a very easy pattern, for which I used an aran weight yarn : Rowan Fine Art Aran, so that it knits up pretty fast. 

I wear this wrap with my beautiful shawl pin that I love!