tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73576501694924498212024-03-21T13:52:32.580+00:00Strandom - lovingly handmade xThe sewing and life of a crafty mum with projects, tutorials, tips and strandom-ness! xAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-24313272179896667662015-03-10T17:19:00.004+00:002015-03-10T17:21:29.275+00:00Start of a new chapter...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-90610869068505780512015-02-26T07:41:00.004+00:002015-02-26T07:41:45.546+00:00A new home for Strandom<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hallo there! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've been very busy working on a brand new blog and website (hopefully an online shop too!) the past few weeks. I will be posting over there from when it goes live (or launches...) and I'll leave the new address here for you all. It'll probably be another week or two before it's all done, but I'm looking forward to it! All the posts from this blog have been transferred over, so once it's all up and running I'll delete them here and leave the link to redirect people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm so happy no-one stole my name before I needed it either, haha! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kathelle x</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-87871935154492870322015-01-21T14:03:00.000+00:002015-01-22T13:05:07.732+00:00Parsnip and Bacon Soup - Recipe<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/13516667/?claim=uxhdkje35cj">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's nothing quite like a delicious, hot bowl of soup on a winter's night. I came up with this recipe a few years ago; it's easy, doesn't involve many ingredients or too much preparation (perfect for when the wee ones are demanding attention!) and it tastes even better the next day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I've recently started making soups more often during the week to try and relieve some of the craziness of teatime with toddlers. It can all be done during the day or the night before and you just heat it up when you're ready. It's all too easy to reach for the pizza and chips when you're harassed but it's not always the best idea...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My husband takes soup to work with him most days in the winter to keep him warm as he works outside. Blended soups are also much easier to pour into a flask at six in the morning! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">1 onion </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I shouldn't have mentioned diaries in my last post, it was bound to be a few months until I'd be back on here, haha! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">2014 was quite a tough year for me for many reasons, so I hope to make 2015 what it could and should be. I have a few updates to post in the coming weeks on previous projects and some new ones as well! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have six PDF patterns from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PeekabooPatternShop" target="_blank">The Peekaboo Pattern Shop on Etsy</a> to work on, four of which I have done or intend to do soon. (I got them for Christmas!) These four are:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I also got the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/151156555/classic-chinos-short-pdf-sewing-pattern?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=chino" target="_blank">Classic Chinos</a> and the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/158412647/classic-oxford-button-up-shirt-pattern?ref=shop_home_active_1&ga_search_query=oxford" target="_blank">Classic Oxford Button Up Shirt</a> patterns for when required... It was so hard to stick to just five or six. I think they'll prove very useful and wearable with potential for variations. The great thing about the kids patterns especially is that they have such a great range of sizes, a lot go up to age twelve! You could definitely get your money's worth with these.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Also on the To-Do List (no, that's not enough...) is finish piecing DJs "<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/87621260/double-crossed-quilt-pattern?ref=sr_gallery_12&ga_search_query=Double+Crossed&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery" target="_blank">Double Crossed Quilt</a>" by Amy Smart of <a href="http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/" target="_blank">Diary of a Quilter</a>. I chose similar colours to those in her quilt, with added cars and planes and diggers for a vehicle mad little boy! It's the twin size I'm working on, so there's no major hurry as such... ahem... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last year, I purchased the <a href="https://www.colettepatterns.com/sewing/moneta" target="_blank">Moneta dress pattern by Colette</a> and really wanted to get started but can't decide what fabric to make it in... it needs three metres of jersey and I really want to love my choice before buying anything.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Oh and on a slightly urgent note, Mr P. needs work shirts!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's probably more ideas lurking in the far corners of my brain and Pinterest, but that should keep me busy for now! My lists are legendary.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In summer holiday terms we've been to John O'Groats and back, Dunrobin Castle (after 5 years of nearly getting there!) and a lovely wedding of dear friends of ours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is a sneak preview (you saw it here first!) of a Block of the Month sampler quilt series we're hoping to start very soon at <i>The Sew Room</i>. I decided to play with solids for a change, which is quite fun :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kathelle x</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-45061802502446309692014-06-20T23:12:00.002+01:002014-06-20T23:12:33.768+01:00A past life in the world of architecture...<br />
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Well, this week my year in uni received their results for their Masters in Architecture... Why was I not with them, you may ask? That'd be a long story, but suffice it to say it was one of the hardest decisions of my life so far, and yet one that I don't regret.<br />
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I've always had an interest in it, and still do - I love seeing what people on my class have been working on, though there's only one friend I keep in touch with now, a very good and kind friend who was my tea and model making buddy! :)<br />
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My time was not wasted, and what I learnt - both academically and with regards to life - has been invaluable. My husband, as you may know, is a stonemason (fancy that, architecture student and a stonemason!) and when he comes home from work I understand most of what he tells me because of what I learnt (the rest I quiz him until I do!) For example, tonight we were re-pointing the cement around our window and he let me have a go - I rather enjoyed it and it wasn't too bad for a first attempt haha! <br />
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I sometimes wonder what life would've been like if I'd carried on, but then I would've been miserable and stressed, we would've got married later and I wouldn't in all likelihood have my two precious little children. Some people see going to uni and getting a degree as the be all and end all for school pupils, but though it definitely has it's place - it's not for everyone, it was never meant to be. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My last proper Studio project in 3rd year - a library in St. Andrews</td></tr>
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Mr P. is a building geek sometimes (in the best sense!) as he has books and books on masonry, surveying, building history, technical details... I was going to sell most of my textbooks after uni, he had a flick through and decided to keep them all! haha! I never had his passion for my course, I should've known, but I was too scared of what people would say if I of all people left - what, Kathelle, the Dux?? Yes, me. I would've loved to study embroidery with the Royal School of Needlework or done Textiles in Art School (I think the latter would've been more me), but we are where we are. God's plans are beyond our reasoning and so much better in the long run that anything we'd do! <br />
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I am now a sewing and quilting geek - I love to find out new techniques, more about different materials, trying out new things, buying more books... I have a passion for what I do now that is greater than what I have for architecture. Sure, it's a great thing to be able to design people's homes and public buildings but I want to fill those homes with pattern and colour and warmth that only textiles and quilts can bring. I can only do small things at the moment, but it's the small details that make a difference... <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As part of the room "makeover", one of the first things we did was get rid of old mismatched furniture (well, hid one in the wardrobe and put the broken one to local recycling!). We bought a new cabinet from Argos, to match the chest of drawers, to store their books and what had been in the old bedside cabinets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">When it arrived, I thought I'd save Mr P. a job, as he's always so busy on Saturdays, and decided to put it together myself. I rather enjoy building the old flatpack furniture haha! However, I did not quite bargain for a cheeky little 18 month old in the process... Whilst EJ was asleep we put it together, and remarkably all was going rather well (considering a little boy's liking for wood and tools...) until I had to put the top on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I just managed to align the dowels and screws on one side, I moved to the other side to align that - and DJ goes and pulls the first side to "help" thus undoing my good work! Cue exasperated but rather amused mother, haha! I tried again to no avail, nearly lined up... and then pop! DJ was at it again. At this point I plonked him in his cot so he could watch but not touch haha! Otherwise I honestly think I'd still be at it ;)</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyway, Mr. P. was very happy and proceeded to beeswax it at the next opportunity (the furniture is unfinished on arrival). We then covered the rather dull chipbboard shelf backing with a lovely bright starry fabric with some PVA spread over the surface as evenly and relatively thinly as possible before it was pinned in place. And voila! Much better! :) Now he can reach his books, he loves reading them and even tries to read them to his wee sister sometimes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next post on this will be on EJ's side which is as yet very blank...:( I have ideas and the materials but it needs done! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kathelle x</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-38500611491876575812014-06-12T15:10:00.001+01:002014-06-12T15:27:20.879+01:00Fellow Folksy-ers! Sue Mellem of Beadstorm Jewellery<div style="margin-top: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">This is the second in the series of interviews with fellow Folksy sellers to find out a wee bit more about them and what they do :) This week we have Sue Mellem from <a href="http://beadstormjewellery.folksy.com/" target="_blank">Beadstorm Jewellery</a>!</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">I qualified as a Mental Health Nurse many years ago and worked in mental healthcare for over 30 years - as a nurse and later as a manager. I count myself very lucky to have had such a fascinating and rewarding career, and to have helped some lovely people along the way.<br />I finished work a couple of years ago and now dedicate my ‘working’ hours to my business Beadstorm Jewellery.<br />I live in Northampton with my husband, teenage daughter and 2 lovely cats (husband and daughter are lovely too!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">I started selling my jewellery through Beadstorm Jewellery nearly 3 years ago. My first customer was my secretary from work, who was great in giving me lots of encouragement in making my jewellery – as well as modelling quite a lot of it!<br />I use mainly gemstones, crystals and pearls in my jewellery as these are the materials that I am drawn to and love. I like to think of my style as being something of a modern take on classical styles.<br />I have developed several sales outlets – I opened my <a href="http://beadstormjewellery.folksy.com/" target="_blank">Folksy shop</a> in September 2011 and after a slow start I’m pleased with how it’s developed. I also sell through a couple of ‘real’ shops & through craft fairs, school and village fetes and any other events that I can find.<br />I love the interactions that I have with other crafters. The supportive community at Folksy is great and there’s so much knowledge that people are always willing to share. I’ve also made some great friends through doing craft fairs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">I started making jewellery by accident. My daughter was doing a Product Design course at school and decided to make a bracelet using wooden beads. I went to a well known national craft store to look for them and saw a vast array of beads. I then looked on line and discovered even more beads. <br />I bought some jewellery making magazines, watched some tutorials, had a go myself and got completed hooked! </span><br /><span style="color: black;">Since then it’s been a steep learning curve to get proficient in all the other aspects of selling jewellery – the greatest challenge has been turning myself from a complete novice with a camera to being able to take reasonable photos that I can use on line in my Folksy shop and on my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Beadstormjewellery" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/Beadstormjewellery</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Difficult question – and if you asked me again tomorrow I’d probably come up with a different answer.<br />Today I’m picking these earrings <a href="http://folksy.com/items/5899151-Handmade-earrings-with-delicate-peach-agate-and-copper-">http://folksy.com/items/5899151-Handmade-earrings-with-delicate-peach-agate-and-copper-</a> because I love the agates in them and I’ve got a thing about working with copper at the moment!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">We were lucky enough to visit San Diego last year & I love it there. The coast is fabulous, with beautiful sunsets and the climate is great. San Diego is an ideal size and people are friendly. Plus I found a wonderful bead fair to visit while we were there!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Last year I was lucky enough to be chosen as one of 100 featured sellers by Small Business Saturday UK, and as a result of this I was invited to a reception at number 11 Downing Street on the eve of Small Business Saturday. <br />I attended along with lots of other small business representatives for what was a fabulous memorable day. Small Business Saturday really gained momentum last year and I hope more people will support it this year.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://folksy.com/items/6260771-Handmade-neon-green-peridot-and-metallic-crystal-earrings" target="_blank">Handmade neon green peridot and metallic crystal earrings</a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are so many lovely shops and talented makers of Folksy it’s hard to pick just three.<br />I love the humour in <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/SnappyCrocodile" target="_blank">Snappy Crocodile’s</a> cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I really like the items in <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/StephShortSupplies">Steph Short Supplies</a> and I have bought some lovely patterned shapes from Steph that I like to include when I wrap my parcels. Steph also has a stationery shop stocking some beautiful cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last, but not least, I love the work of <a href="http://funkymosaics.folksy.com/" target="_blank">Funky Mosaic</a> and this is one of my favourite items from Liz’s shop.<a href="http://folksy.com/items/4113294-Tulips-Mosaic-Garden-Ornament-Wall-Plaque-"></a></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">Thank you very much Sue! One of my personal favourites in her shop is her beaded bracelets - I have two already and I love them! Here's one that's available now - I love how it's such a classic colour combination: </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: black;"> If you'd like to have a proper look at the beautiful range in Sue's shop then here's the link: <a href="http://www.beadstormjewellery.folksy.com/">www.beadstormjewellery.folksy.com </a></span></i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">All the images above have the link to the appropriate shop in the caption, just click on the <span style="color: black;">name :) </span></span></i></span></span><br />
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</span><span id="goog_1593878597"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1593878598"><span id="goog_1593878605"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1593878606"></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-726587849446360302014-06-06T12:34:00.001+01:002014-06-06T12:34:04.556+01:00Nursery for two! Decorating for a boy and a girl - Part 2 - DJ's side (Magazine Collage Tutorial)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">DJ's side of the room really suits him now. We put up Mr P.'s tool clock and two collage canvases which we made ourselves. (I know it looks a wee bit bare at the bottom but it is deliberate so that he can't touch them!) </span></span><br />
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first canvas has quite a story to it. Mr P. loves his Land Rovers. He
used to have heaps of magazines, but one day decided to have a clear
out. At this point we were just going out, so he showed me his
favourites he'd saved that Saturday morning when I went over to visit.
We eventually came up with the idea of making a collage on a canvas with
them - rather than keeping them hidden in a folder or drawer. Anyway,
off we went for a spin to Haddo House, came back with a sparkly ring ;)
and Hobbycraft was first on our list of places to go, haha! With the
canvas bought, we finished the collage that evening - so it's quite
special to us both :) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's quite a deep canvas, so we found as many landscape images as we could in the magazines, cut them out and arranged them on the canvas so that there was enough to completely cover the sides - we probably had about 10 magazines to work with so there was plenty choice! Some of Mr P.'s favourites were very carefully cut out to go over the landscapes to blend it together as one image. For example, the one in the bottom right corner looks as if it's coming out of that valley, and the top right corner looks like it's going along that road, whereas it was actually us that put them there as a wee story :) And to finish it off, we put a little Land Rover badge in the top left corner :) So after 3 years in 3 sitting rooms it moved into DJ's room, passed on to him!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">To keep the Land Rovers company, and as this wee boy is fond of any vehicle that has wheels and an engine, we made a similar one with tractors! Rather appropriate for here as a farming community, and this time it was DJs Great Auntie and Uncle who donated the magazines :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This one took us much longer than the Land Rover one as we had less to work with (just 2 magazines) and the canvas size and shape proved a bit more complicated to fill nicely. After many weeks of being hidden under the blanket box, on the table and in the wardrobe it was completed!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This one was done in a similar way with finding landscape photos (very few and far between!) to cover the blank bits and edges and carefully arranged it all so it looked good. Below you can see the tractor has been carefully cut out around the front wheel and nose and then the trees in the background were cut to mimic those in the landscape photo! This was Mr P.'s creativity :) After it as finished and stuck down we went over it with a few coats of PVA, but it went a bit wrinkly :( We used spray mount for the LR one, then PVA coats and it definitely worked better than using PVA the whole way through. We put a logo from the obliging magazine in the bottom left corner to finish, and DJ loves it!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's a great way to re-use magazines - I'd love to do one with flowers from gardening magazines or castles and stately comes from National Trust magazines... Many posibilities and it cheers up a room in a personal way without costing much. :) If you have the magazines in and gathering dust that is, they can be so expensive! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'd love to see if any of you give it a try or if you've done anything similar! DJ loves it and makes grunty engines noises when he sees them haha! :D</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kathelle x</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-12755244510151592992014-06-05T11:34:00.001+01:002014-06-05T11:34:33.765+01:00Fellow Folksy-ers! Roz Legge of Rozcraftz<div style="margin-top: 0px;">
<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In the first of a new "series" I'll be interviewing some fellow Folksy sellers to find out a wee bit more about them and what they do :) First of all we have Roz Legge from <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/rozcraftz" target="_blank">Rozcraftz</a>!</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am a self employed chiropodist and mother to 2 teenage daughters with 2 dogs, 3 lizards, a snake and several fish to look after! Having been defined as a scientist all my life I came to crafting late but am now completely addicted.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My shop is full of various giftware and home decor items. I have tried out lots of different crafts tending to move on from one to the next once I have mastered a technique! I have recently discovered felting (both needle felting and wet felting) and have fallen in love with it so more and more felted items are now appearing in my shop. I intend to stick with felting now and gradually phase out the rest of my stock although I expect the odd non felted item will appear.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My youngest daughter had been to a concert and wanted to make a scrapbook with all the photos etc so I made one for her. At about the same time my eldest daughter was trying to raise money towards a trip to Namibia to work as a volunteer at a wildlife conservation park. She started doing pencil drawings of animals and taking commissions for pet portraits and I suggested I made a few more blank albums and we could go to craft fairs together. Everything sort of snowballed from there!</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">That's a hard question to answer but my felt work is my favourite, in particular my needle felted pet portraits. I always do the eyes last and love watching the animal come alive when I add them. The eyes always convey so much character.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Favourite book, probably "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. Not really sure why but it really gripped me and the descriptions of how buildings were built has made me much more aware of the features of the buildings around me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So difficult to choose. I try and avoid searching around Folksy too much unless I am looking for something specific because there are far too many talented people offering such amazing goods, all of which I would want to buy! However, the following are among my favourite shops.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/KPriceArt" target="_blank">K Price Art</a><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> has some really lovely felted pictures. One day I'm hoping I can create similar.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love the work by <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/paperchainsandbeads" target="_blank">Paper, chains and beads</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> - particularly the paintings and artworks section. Lots of different and unusual methods and media have been used.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finally I adore the fairies in the shop <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/wightfairy" target="_blank">Garden Fairy Figures</a></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> I first saw these fairies on Facebook and fell in love with them. They are so original and always make me smile.</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thank you very much Roz! One of my personal favourites in her shop is this beautiful felted elephant silhouette against the sunset, the colours are just gorgeous.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> If you'd like to have a proper look at the wonderful variety in Roz's shop then here's the link: <a href="https://beta.folksy.com/shops/Rozcraftz">https://beta.folksy.com/shops/Rozcraftz</a> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Also known as the "I can nearly sew it in a nap-time bag"! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Why the name "Flora" you may ask? Well, I named this bag after my sister-in-law, as the style reminded me of her - practical, pretty and one of a kind! We both very much enjoy our sewing and crafts, exchanging ideas and tips! And she likes yo-yos (the fabric flower variety!) so I put one on too. Just because ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This lovely bag is a great size for the necessary essentials when you don't want to carry a huge handbag with everything in it bar the kitchen sink! (Though as a mum of two tiny toots these days are rare now!) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The tweed is a beautiful weave of teal and moss green and beige - a very limited edition by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HandmadeByHeatherIsleOfHarris?fref=ts" target="_blank">Handmade by Heather - Isle of Harris.</a> It was her first lot of Harris Tweed for sale and sold out within 24 hours! I can't wait to see what else she'll come up with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My inspiration was from a very old faithful friend of a bag - the very first one I made! I was on 3rd year in school (Heather was there too!) and I used it all the time - patched it, repaired it, replaced the button... and now it is in retirement in my wardrobe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So here's the finished article... posing against my cabinet of curiosities! Looks sane enough but it's crammed full of crafty stuff haha! My sister's sign is in the very background, and my granny as a young 20-something in the corner! :) </span><br />
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Very quick back story - we'd been renting our house, got the offer to buy it and it has been ours since March. The whole house was magnolia other than the kitchen and our bedroom wall as it is fairly new. As we'd been renting we hadn't ever properly decorated DJ's room, just a few things on the wall. All in all it's pretty much a blank canvas!<br />
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<br />We decided to paint the walls a very light blue as it is obviously suitable for a boy and it would also go with EJ's pink things. The room has been split up into three zones if you like (architecture brain :p) one side each that will be purely individual beside their cots and the back wall where the toybox is, was to be shared.<br />
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While we were away at Easter time, Mr P got cracking with the painting! We got some really cute woodland stickers from Mothercare and put them in on the wall beside the pirate chest toybox that Mr P made himself. The room doesn't have a theme as such, just things we liked and thought they'd like. DJ was wandering around the shop with the box of stickers so we gathered he liked them haha!<br />
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After a week of seeing this: <br />
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and this, I finally felt I was getting somewhere!<br />
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The finished pictures look so sane in comparison haha! The above "burach" (Gaelic word for guddly mess!) is the result of trying to cut everything out as fast as I could before DJ & EJ woke up!<br />
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It became one of three styles of coin purse in my Folksy shop :)<br />
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And this pile of cut out fabric...<br />
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I very much appreciate the help and support of friends and family, those who took the time to share my items on Facebook and Mr P. (my husband - so named by my sister a few years ago!) who had to put up with said burach for a few days! And to those who ordered I sincerely hope you love your Standom makes :)<br />
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Now off to work on some orders! :D<br />
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Some progress on the Strandom front...<br />
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Four days to go until shop opening! I shall have to work like a busy bee to get it all done, so I'd better get cracking. Didn't get as much done last week as I'd hoped, DJ & EJ keeping me busy :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Before EJ was born I wanted to make her some wee dangling toys for her car seat or crib, like I'd done for DJ. I was trying to think of an animal or something that would be relatively quick to make and have some sort of interactive quality (in other words, fun ;) )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I came across two tutorials on making stuffed turtles, one was <a href="http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2013/9/15/mollys-sketchbook-myrtle-the-purl-turtle.html" target="_blank">Myrtle the Turtle</a> from <a href="http://www.purlbee.com/" target="_blank">Purl Bee</a> (above) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and the other was <a href="http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/06/stuffed-fabric-turtles-with-pattern-pieces.html" target="_blank">Stuffed Fabric Turtles</a> from Ashley at <a href="http://www.makeit-loveit.com/" target="_blank">Make it & Love it.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Seeing as I was hoping to hang it from a bit of ribbon, I chose the Make it & Love it one as it seemed easier to put a ribbon in centrally. Both these turtles are meant to be more teddy sized I think, but as I was wanting a dangly toy... I shrunk the pattern with a photocopier (I think it was 25-30%, can't remember now) and proceeded to pick my fabrics!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I didn't know whether EJ was going to be a boy or a girl (spoils the surprise!) so I went for more primary colours in high contrast and eye catching prints. The higher the contrast the more stimulating for babies apparently! So I went for big red spots, navy and white polka dots, a colourful vine pattern and a bold large blue paisley print for the shell and a kind of beige for legs, head and tails just to balance out the colorfulness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And to continue with the contrast I used this fabric called doily dance by Michael Miller (I think! I got it a while ago) for it's tummy. Theory being that if it's dangling she'd see the bottom as much as, if not more than, the shell :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It looks like it's crawling towards you in this photo haha! I used some cotton ribbon with an orange stitch detail for hanging and sewed Velcro to it so it could loop and hang on whatever it fit on. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was really pleased with how the shrunken version turned out though it was definitely not without problems! It was mostly sewn on the machine, which was fine for the shell but the head/legs/tail were soo fiddly and three of them popped and ripped :( so I made some more and just cut longer bits of fabric so it wasn't so likely to break and put them in the turtle so they were the right length again. And I added a wee bell to it's tummy so he'd jingle! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">She seems to like it anyway... Have you any tales of improvisation to tell? I have one or two more wee toys to show you over the next few weeks as well. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Better go hang the washing, though I can't decide if it'll rain or not... typical! :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A wee update on the quilt! I've not managed to do a huge amount on it since last week. It's all arranged - you can see the spares floating about in the corner of the photo - I had 9 in total, so I'll use them in the back of the quilt somehow, as this section is nine blocks wide by nine blocks tall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I sewn up all the squares and blocks in columns and now I'm half way through sewing the rows together... I've done two more since this photo was taken. I'm much happier with the colours in this version as they really pop and are very vibrant which is what I was hoping for. Yay! (I'm sad I know...haha)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Close up of the centre of the quilt half sewn up. I was trying to use a different colour of pinwheel on the corners of the large ones so they stood out a bit more. For example I used blues and greens to frame the pink one below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Now once the top's done, I need to decide how to quilt it. If I were a wonderful expert with freehand quilting I would do swirls around the pinwheels like the wind... but I'm not, by any stretch of the imagination. :/ I may experiment and see how it goes, I just really think that straight line quilting wouldn't work on this pattern, it would lose it's freedom and fun, hmmm... We'll see!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I had a rather busy weekend with having a brand new niece (though I've not seen her yet, I can not wait!) going to Aberdeen and church. So I hope to have a productive week getting stock ready for Strandom and the usual household stuff :) And trying to finish this quilt top of course! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kathelle x</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-57165972707095114702014-05-09T12:51:00.000+01:002014-05-09T12:51:24.094+01:00Strandom - 2 weeks to go...<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I received a few lovely parcels in the post this morning and earlier on this week which mean that I can finally get started on new projects for Strandom! I've been itching to get going for a while, though it won't be easy with the two little ones! I'll try my best ;) Aiming for 23rd May... we'll see how it goes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> DJ's at that stage where he's into everything... (It's a cliche for a reason!) I was working on EJ's quilt last night and he was going through the extra squares and using one to wipe his face as if it was a facecloth! pah, little boys haha! Remember this from my last post? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And he loved the new zips... They are both down now (a wee bit of P&Q - also know as peace and quiet!) so I'm having a cup of tea while I sort these photos for you :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> While I was home on holiday last month I popped up to Tarbert, thanks to my Dad for driving as I STILL have not got my license... one day! I went into the Harris Tweed shop and dithered over the gorgeous choices while he drove the kids about to keep them happy :) Here's some of what I've chosen for <i>Strandom</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The pink and blue with cream ones at the top of the above photo were woven by Heather, she has a Facebook page called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HandmadeByHeatherIsleOfHarris?fref=ts" target="_blank">Handmade by Heather - Isle of Harris.</a> They're gorgeous, looking forward to seeing what else she does! You can see the pink one more clearly in the middle photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amazingly they are still sleeping, so I'll see what housework I can do before the little man gets up and EJ needs a feed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I found <a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/05/windy-days-quilt.html" target="_blank">this</a> quilt pattern on Pinterest a while back and loved it so much I just had to make it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's called "Windy Days" and is by Sarah Meyer as part of <a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/" target="_blank">Moda Bake Shop</a>, which has heaps of ideas and projects for pre-cuts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It seemed the perfect choice for a cot quilt for EJ when she gets big enough, which gives me a wee bit of time to get it sorted... link to pattern <a href="http://www.modabakeshop.com/2011/05/windy-days-quilt.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I found this cool pinwheel fabric at "The Sew Room" in Alford. I wanted to include it somehow, but I couldn't quite decide how... (in typical fashion haha!) Eventually, I decided to use it as the border fabric to make the quilt a bit bigger, and I used it to select the colours for the pinwheels. </span><br />
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blues, pinks, purples, greens and a little bit of orange, which sounds
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> The pattern is technically for a charm pack and that would be the easiest and most sensible option, but I couldn't see any that I liked enough in the right colours. So, I bought some fat quarters in bold, punchy colours like pinks, orange, teal and purple and cut my own "charm pack" (a charm pack is a pre-cut pack of 5" fabric squares) I also cut far too many in my enthusiasm... so, I'll pick the best and use the rest in the back somehow haha! :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Whilst feeding EJ a few months ago (she's 5 months now) I watched a few Eleanor Burns videos on youtube and learnt this "swirling" technique for the back which works soo much better that whatever I used to do. This is only my second quilt, the first one I made was for DJ, I'll show pics of it in another post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> This was the first attempt at the layout when I'd sewn enough pinwheels together. I wasn't too happy with it as the colours were nice but it was a bit pilly wally... and lacked the bold colourful look I was wanting for it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The large pinwheel at the top right didn't stand out enough either so I changed it from this</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> to this, and I'm so much happier with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Only one lost casualty which wasn't too bad going with the to-ing and fro-ing and floating about for a month or so waiting patiently on the table. I'll try to arrange it again soon, but it'll have to be in the evenings or there'll be a pinwheel thief on the loose! (Can you tell I tried it before... bad plan, haha!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last year I made this cushion for a friend's birthday present. It was great fun to do as you could pick loads of different fabrics for one project, but it would work equally well with only 2 or 3 patterns/colours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.cluckclucksew.com/2011/03/tutorial-sprocket-pillows.html" target="_blank">This</a> is the tutorial I used to make it - this lady's blog has heaps of other great ideas too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I was aiming for a random shabby chic pretty kind of look for it, trying not to be too matchy. The faric wedges were arranged so that none of the same fabric was directly opposite, as I had used two of some of my favourite fabrics. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A good range of lights, mid tones and darker fabrics, as well as plains and patterns were used to keep it really interesting and eye-catching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can probably tell I think a little bit too much about these things, haha! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The centre button was covered with another co-ordinating fabric. I tried to use some of the fabric I had in the wedges but it didn't quite look right, whereas this fabric picks out the red accent and really lightens up the middle of the cushion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The button also makes this very forgiving to make if your points aren't exact, it'll hide the mistakes! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Sewing the button on was probably the most fiddly bit as you're going through all the stuffing and pulling it tight too. You could also try and put another button on the back and make it reversible. I left it plain and used this lovely script fabric from The Sew Room in Alford as the backing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's a great project to use up scraps or if you simply can't choose which fabric to start with!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I tried something similar with larger wedges out of Harris Tweed but it didn't really work sadly... it was too bulky and it somehow became too small...(don't quite know what happened haha!) so I turned it into this heart for my Folksy shop! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> I may try again, alternating cotton and tweed...? not sure if that'd work either but I think it would look pretty cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here's the link again if you want to give it a go yourself! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Kathelle x</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03660638050582946175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7357650169492449821.post-37570473290274638362014-04-30T12:00:00.000+01:002014-05-05T11:52:49.898+01:00Introduction :)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I’m Kathelle MacLeod, designer/maker for <i>Strandom</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m a Christian, a wife and a mum of two and
I love sewing and all things crafts related. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This blog is about the behind-the-scenes life
of Strandom and running a craft business and a home with two under two! </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A selection of items from last year</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'd wanted to sell my sewing for a while, and I finally plucked up the courage last June (though starting up with a baby on the way and a
tiny toddler maybe wasn’t the easiest way to do it, but heyho!)
I opened a shop on Folksy and sold a few items in a local shop, “<i>The Sew Room</i>”
in Alford.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was all starting to pick
up nicely when I had to stop in November as I was 8 months pregnant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> This is me coming back to it all after having my daughter in
December.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(She’ll be called EJ, and my
little boy shall be called DJ for the purposes of this blog!)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I hope to
get both Etsy and Folksy shops up and running and stocked up in the next few
weeks and I shall keep a diary of sorts of my progress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was quite bad at keeping diaries as a child…I
hope to improve! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So let’s see how we get on! :)</span></div>
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