Sarah Lawrence

Bonnet Project

Well its seems as though spring is finally here. It was 17 degrees on Thursday and we were all hot! On Saturday Craftynotions were at the AMG for the embroiders guild in Nottingham it was lovely to see everybody there. One person in particular was Norma Bean and her bonnets. Some of you maybe aware of the Bonnet Project. Its the brain child of Australian artist called Christina Henri. The project is called Roses from the Heart , Norma is the UK coordinator. She is exhibited last year some of the 13,000 bonnets that have been already made at the Festival of Quilts. There is a pattern, instructions and more importantly an opportunity to participate in the fascinating adventure. You can contact Norma for details “Norma.bean at ntlworld dot com”. I’ve promised Norma that I’d made one as yet I haven’t and every time I see Norma I get an sense of guilt for not having done it, but I will!

Moulding Mesh Video Now On Youtube

Finishing up at the Show

I’ve been really busy working hard at the trade this week for the craft industy. I’m delighted to say we’ve been visited by Tim Holtz who thought we were “cool”. Suze Weinberg who took photos of me and demos and put them on her blog, not the most flattering photos of me anyway but it was very nice of her to take interest in what I was doing.. Back in Newark I’ll upload some images. We’ve lots of new products are ready to go on the craftynotions website soon..

Faux Batik Video Now On Youtube

Very Cold and Snowy

It has snowed most of this week .. but we have been furiously working on the on-line class/tutorial which has launched today. It will be accessible for the lifetime of the course .. I have had a few emails asking about this and if it is time sensitive (as I believe that some on-line classes are only available to download for a very short period of time). It is, the class is running for 2 months in total with part 2 starting on the 10th Feburary.
You can sign up here.

Flower Sticther Video Now On Youtube

I’ve just uploaded to Youtube a demonstration on how to use the Flower Stitcher which I mentioned in craftynotions.com’s January Newsletter.

Here it is!

Flower Stitcher @ craftynotions.com

Remember there is still time to book a place on the online class which starts on Sunday! Click here

Christmas and New Year

Hope everyone had the Christmas that you were all hoping for. The new year looms and my thoughts are turning to all the things I have planned for next year. Haven’t made any new years resolutions yet! But one of them maybe to blog a bit more often!

Went to see Avatar with family and it was utterly gob-smacking! Absolutely brilliant and we are hoping to go see it again fairly soon as there was so many fantastic visuals you couldn’t possibly take it all in one go.

Cold and Chilly

Where has the fog suddenly come from?On Thursday I travelled to the Milton Keynes Em. guild (had a lovely time and ate mince pies ) but the drive back home was pretty hairy as the fog pockets were unexpected….Then Friday evening it was like a Dickensian melodrama..swirling and almost masking out the street lamps! On this Sunday morning it is heavy moist air so much so that when spot went out he came back in with a covering of water droplets which he immediately transfered to me when he jumped on my lap and proceeded to shake himself like a dog which is strange as he’s a cat!!

Nearly There

We have been working tirelessly at the unit getting all the building work done and it is so close to being finished. I will shout yippee when it is done. Taken far longer than I thought it would.

Also I have done quite a lot of filming for the online classes and You Tube, they will be ready for viewing in the next week or so.

Here are a few pictures from the first workshop!

Back From London

The Goodies

Twiddley Bird

The Crunch

We had a really busy time at the Knitting and Stitching Show. Met loads of people, Hello to Viv, Gabi, Ermintrude… To name just a few. And good to catch up with Dale and Ian and his cold germs!

The talk I gave to the Danish Felters went well and it will be lovely to see them all again in July in Denmark. (Details later) Next year will be a very busy exhibiting year as I will have the pieces for Denmark and work for the exhibition here in Newark with The Group. I will post al the details soon.

The work on the new space is gaining pace and we are painting the floor in the warehouse bit . I have tables and chairs waiting for delivery. more importantly I have been to Ikea for storage and no I didn’t come back with everything but showed great restraint!