The One About Crafty Church (June)

As always we had a lovely afternoon at Crafty Church this afternoon


I got a partially finished EPP hexie top basted

I held a bit of a jumble sale as there has been so much donation stuff recently, and I'm running out of storage space . . . lots has found a new home

And I was given this fab panel by Tara!

Tara brought this for show and tell -its tiny, and really beautiful

And she's knitting with wire . . .

Having finished crocheting with wire!

 Lesley has finished this Noah's Ark which started in a donation box

Janet has finished this gorgeous boy

and is working on a girlfriend:

The One About An Artist In Residence

While we were in Norway, on the island of Halsnøy, we visited a museum very close to the cottage.  I love that an island with a population of less than 3000 has a museum (and a fire station and two schools!)

Every year they have an Artist in Residence, and this year was Lois Walpole and she has been weaving with scrap ropes. Not only was there some fab exhibits, but I'm teaching very similar bowls on Wednesday next week so it as great to see hers, and to buy a copy of her book.  I'm really sorry I wasn't able to meet her

Sorry lots of photos to follow!

The bowls

She also made two huge wall hangings - this one in the 'dining room'

 

 

And this one in the 'sitting room'

 

And the book

The Lighthouse has Landed

The on-going saga of the Lighthouse quilt has now ended - it has been delivered to its owner who was very happy with it!

The aunts were delighted with their washing line bowls (although there is clearly a translation problem!)

 

And our host loved his shirt quilts

 

We had a fab long weekend in Norway and even less crafting than usual has occurred!

(I did hand sew bunting on the plane for the party - thank you Amo!!!)

Gorgeous Goodies

I cannot begin to tell you how gorgeous today's package was. However I can show you
This stunning wall hanging arrived from Amo

Let's look at it in a bit more detail

And a little *more* detail - she's so talented!

However the package didn't hold just one Amo original, and not even just two, but THREE!

This fab note book

And this intricate card

Thank you so much Amo xxxxx

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Fortnight round up

Life seems to have (again) got in the way of making and blogging, but her is a bit of a round up of the last couple of weeks . . .

We held a crafty church special and had a bunting production line - and made 35 yards/metres red white and blue bunting

That afternoon we had Kids Crafty Church - these two awesome girls learnt how to use a hand crank singer and made another 8 yards/metres of bunting

I made some more at home, and this is the finished 80 yards/metres around the village green for the queen's birthday

(Actually it's red white blue AND green - all the fabric was recycled from shirts, dresses and donated fabrics!)

I spent some money and have organised my threads

And I bodged some replacement candle holders for my garden candelabra

I've stitched, pressed and cut more blocks for my planned zig zag quilt

And practiced some screen printing for a class

Phew! Not too shabby as I'm working 40 hour weeks!!!!!

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I Is (still) In Ireland!

Anther fabric filled day today! [edit ... Meant to post on Tuesday but wifi cut out!]

As well as Jackie's drug run (I'm learning a whole new language relating to this cancer cr@p!) we managed to finsh the pop up, make a lined vinyl pouch with no raw or bound edges, make some pyramid pouches 

and make a bunch of citrus pouches (the quantity may or may not have been to me over zealously cutting far more pieces than necessary, but we'll gloss over that)

Hope you had a good Tuesday xxx