14 September 2006
Ooh, ooh, my first placemat has arrived!
It's from Edwina in Tasmania (do you have a blog, Edwina?), and she spoilt me by tucking it a few other choice goodies. The blue item with EAT emblazoned on it is the placemat, although I think it's the back. The other side is a lovely patchwork -- very nice, with a silkscreened patch -- but I just get such a kick out of the EAT side. Rob thinks it suits me very well!
I'm actually having a bit of trouble getting the bird prints out. They're all packaged and ready to go, but they weigh more than usual, and I haven't got enough stamps. Not a problem for a normal person, but I have a serious condition wherein important information, tasks, etc, continuously fail to lodge in my brain and are thus left unfinished for ages. I think it's called 'being bad.' But I promise they'll go out soon.
I spent an hour today cutting out the pieces for my new bag:
I pay more and more attention to detail with every bag I make, so of course this one involves creating my own piping. I'm using some lovely wool I bought from a shop on Berwick street (it had pictures of famous people wearing suits supposedly crafted from fabric bought there -- I like to think my bag might match some random celeb's new wool blazer) and the leftover Liberty cord from my skirt (which is so close to being finished, yet so far away). I hadn't planned on using the cord to line, but it tones so well with the wool, so in it goes.
In response to some questions from the last post:
-- The ISBNs for those books are 4873033845 and 4860670981. The links will take you to their pages on YesAsia.com.
-- Here's a not very good shot of the text below the sugar cube photos. Feel free to yell at me for not taking a crisper photo, and then I will do so. You can also see there how the little moon floats once the sugar's dissolved. Cute!
-- The trim came from The Cloth House, also on Berwick Street. A lovely, lovely shop. I do indeed plan on using it along a shelf edge. I only bought one metre (because -- £10.50! Sheesh.), so it'll probably only be one shelf. But I love it.
I am still working on the placemat - I haven't forgotten just the "mean reds" have been getting in the way of creativity. Thanks for the note about the trim - I am hoping to get to the Cloth House tomorrow (a rare source of Viyella fabric).
posted by caroline at September 14, 2006 10:10 PM
I am glad you like the placement, the crown patch was to remind you of Jolly Old England, when your days of London living pass.
posted by Edwina at September 17, 2006 01:51 AM