Look, I moved the desk into my craft room:
It’s so much better as a sewing desk, and it’s much sturdier than the white table I was using. That table, by the way, is in the middle of the room at the moment (you can see it off to the right in the picture), which poses a problem. It’s completely out of place and cannot stay where it is, but it’s so useful there! I’ve been working on a new quilt, and I’ve got all the fabrics in baskets on the white table. I can cut them on the mat there, and then piece things together and iron the seams (on the ironing board that is also stuck in the middle of things). So handy, and so not aesthetically pleasing.
Here’s some well-deserved crafting for everybody who’s been suffering through all the food talk and photos:
I made the felt last week and whipped up this little pouch a few days ago. Perfect for pens, pencils, and a small Winsor and Newton set. I was going to embellish the pouch further, but I decided I liked it as it was.
I haven’t got any photos yet of my quilt in progress, but I’m very excited to share it. I’ve patterned it after an arts and crafts style stained glass window, and I think it’s going to look fantastic (she says, modestly). The piecing is a bit dodgy in places, but I think the actual quilting will cover the wonkiest bits. There are two main ‘panels’, and I’ve finished what I hope (!) is the trickier of the two. And I’m in the quilting zone, which is absolutely essential. In fact, I might go work on it now. . .
such a sweet pouch (love the simplicity too) seems perfect for sketching on-the-go.
the craft room is lovely, serene and cheery. it looks ready for business.
fabulous handmade journals too; perfectly sized for pasting + gluing inspirational beauties into them. also nice for on-the-go purposes (which is usually where all the inspiration comes).
can’t wait to view your next piece of art.
love the flea market theme!
when you say you made the felt for the pouch, is that felting a jumper or doing the needle felt thing? i made a little pouch for my camera, it’s also felt.
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SO many great posts. Love your changing diet due to longer walks (spring stretches the legs doesn’t it). Your felted pouch, so perfect.
Your sturdy desk, ah yes, I know the need of one of them under a wobbling shaking sewing machine as I currently have mine on, pretty much, the same desk as your white one (an old double school desk with ink pot hole for the cables to go through)
I had an optical illusion when I saw teh Mew Mew photo. WHen I 1st looked I thought it was a photo taken from the ground looking up the side of a huge office building with an white cloud in the sky….can you see that too. Was amazed to suddenly see a cat!
What a wonderful journal to have. I wish I’d kept one in Canada. These times when a place becomes a home and not just a place you passed through for a chunk of your life, they make such a huge impression that it’s easy to think you’ll never forget. And with the big details you don’t… but it’s so often the smaller details that made it home, and part of you. The details that you don’t get under your skin if you are a tourist somewhere.
It’s good to have a place where that mixture of memories, collections, views and thoughts lie. Wonderful watercolours. I always think of you when I post my Council Tax things to Dalkieth! Sometime I’ll go to the Country Park and take photo’s for you.
I have som much more to say about your other posts, but the sun is shining, I cannot stay here anymore without gittin’ some ‘o that sunshine – even tho’ it’s still very cold in the shadows.
Enjoy your walk with Minnie today, and may your calories be upped in wonderous and typically inventive Anna ways!
hello!
i’m new to your site (great blog!)– was directed to by liesl at ‘distressed’ as she highly recommended your zippered pouch tutorial. can’t wait to try it!
i wondered, do you have other tutorials on your site? (couldn’t find a ‘search’ function on the blog)
cheers!
isabelle
i just got some winsor and newton watercolors myself. Is there any trick to keeping the pans “clicked” into the box? I thought about gluing them in but that is so permanent.