flower on watercolour paper..
April 11, 2012
I printed a flower photo from Bali onto watercolour paper and had a little draw over the top of it… for 10 mins work – I think it will be ok to put into the school art auction…
Love lace and sydney …
April 4, 2012
muslin and machine embroidery…
March 22, 2012
A bit excited to finally find a sewing machine that would do machine embroidery… one of these is going to an unknown recipient as part of the 4 x 6 exchange at Arthouse Co-op, and one is going to Kim at Witch Mountain, and one went to my daughter for her birthday yesterday and ONE to spare….
Tutorial – knitted duck for Easter
March 15, 2012
For those of you out there that like a cute and easy knitted project (only TWO squares this time!) – this one is also timely as Easter approaches.
YOU WILL NEED – Small strip of orange felt, 3mm knitting needles, 5 ply wool (the one I used has some angora in it so it has that extra fluffy effect) This patttern will make you a small sized duck – only 7cm long when complete…so experiment with different ply yarns and needles and as long as the proportions are similar – it will turn out fine. My children had much chunkier ones at their Steiner (Waldorf) kindergarten.
For the head – cast on 8 stitches, Knit 15 rows garter stitch and cast off. For the body – cast on 18 stitches, knit 25 rows garter stitch and cast off.
Starting with the head folded in half – use one of your tail ends of yarn to weave through the sides and pull round in a loop to make a rounded shape at both ends.
Insert a little stuffing, and just close up the bottom of the head with a few regular stitches.
The head should look rounded at each end like this one….
Do the same with each end of the body shape after you have folded it in half…
Bring your stitches in along each side of the bottom of the body – but LEAVE THE MIDDLE OPEN if you would like to add a little surprise (as I’ll show you later…) or seal it up if you are giving it to a smaller child etc…
Attach the head to the body with a few stitches in the same yarn..
Fold the strip of orange felt in half and using a similar coloured thread – sew the beak in place on the head with just a few stitches…
Your duck is complete! AND…. as a special treat for Easter – why not hide a little egg in the opening we left before – chocolate or otherwise! (don’t forget to put a little stuffing either end to puff up the body…) As always… please let me know how it goes… and I’d love to see your interpretations of this one! Enjoy!
Interesting couple of days…
March 11, 2012
I really enjoyed watching THIS doco on SBS last night about Vivienne Westwood (Guardian interview with her) – it wasn’t the fashion so much as her interest in ideas about art and propaganda and her quoting Huxley about the distractions that keep us from questioning what’s going on in the world. (great piece from Huxley HERE).
And then a friend from the US sent me an email about the Kony 2012 (Invisible Children) viral campaign…. it make me wonder if FB can be much more than a distraction….
