Monkey Trouble

2008-07-08T00:08:00.000-07:00

Some of the goodies I'll be taking to Craft 2.0 for July 19th. Whee!

2008-06-07T13:51:00.000-07:00

Owl brooches, felt and buttons with handstitched detail and pin back. I've made a few different colours, but no pictures of those yet!

Flower brooches in progress. They still need to be handstitched and have the pin back attached. The design was inspired (traced from!) a vintage table cloth that's covering our dining table!

Last week I borrowed Nerdy Dad's camera. I seem to be able to get much better pictures out of it as long as I have good light. Yay! As soon as I have a spare minute after exams, I'm going to attempt to make a light tent from this tutorial: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/how-to-make-a-inexpensive-light-tent/ which will hopefully improve things even more.

2008-05-28T16:55:00.000-07:00

My faithful fabric hunting sidekick and I are off to scour the Hastings op shops for fabric goodies. Whee!

2008-05-25T01:59:00.000-07:00

This is what my office looks like after 2 days of sewing... Its pretty bad, but not as bad as it could be because the mess spread out into the lounge! I've been finishing off a big batch of hot water bottle covers with felt machine stitched appliques. They look pretty awesome and I can't wait to get some pictures taken.

Willy loves to help me sew.

2008-05-17T12:17:00.001-07:00

Willy approves of my hot water bottle covers. :)

Back on the horse! So to speak... I don't really enjoy riding horses.

2008-05-14T18:54:00.000-07:00

This is the beginning of my first big project in quite a while. Since we're coming into winter in NZ, I'm making hot water bottle covers from op shopped woolen blankets. I'm going to applique or embroider some, and leave some plain because the wool is quite lovely on its own.

2008-05-02T20:43:00.000-07:00

http://monkeysews.com/

And! I'm in the process of having some lovely quality woven labels made. These will go into the new pieces that I'm planning and will hopefully soon actually have the time to make!

I did get to do some sewing yesterday which was so fabulous. I'm definitely home in our new house now - there's pins in the carpet. :D

2008-04-28T23:03:00.000-07:00

I haven't had a chance to sew since we moved a week ago, and a month before that. I'm starting to have some quite bad withdrawal! Hopefully I can get started on a couple of things in the next day or two though. *wibble*

For now, take a look at a picture of my studio so far - the one and only time it will look this tidy (and bare - there's art to go up on the walls and more shelves to go up):

I can't tell you just how exciting it is for me to have a studio to work in and store everything. I've even got an entire large cupboard for my fabric collection, which I will have to take a picture of too! Nerdy laughs at me, because even though I haven't had a chance to do any sewing yet, I periodically walk into the room and open the cupboard just to bask in the awesomeness.