Not sure what I'll put on there, Brown Owls stuff I guess.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
As an aside...
Am I the only one addicted to creating blogs? On a whim I made this yesterday:
Not sure what I'll put on there, Brown Owls stuff I guess.
Not sure what I'll put on there, Brown Owls stuff I guess.
Chic lady
Yesterday I hit my favourite thrift store for a browse while we were waiting for Mr Stitchy's prescriptions from the chemist next door. And I almost walked past this pair of napkins/placemats and a bigger table runner. Not handstiched, from the look of the back of the work, but still adorable nevertheless:
I thought you would agree, my stitchy friends, so I'll scan her tonight and tweak it until I get a transfer pattern for you to use.
Update: here she is, hopefully you can use her:
I thought you would agree, my stitchy friends, so I'll scan her tonight and tweak it until I get a transfer pattern for you to use.
Update: here she is, hopefully you can use her:
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Current WIP
I haven't been home for a few days, so no blogging. And thankfully, feeling much healthier (Mr Stitchy now has the flu, I can't help sharing). I was determined to be better to go to the first Brown Owls meeting last night.
This WIP is a little teatowel that I started last night, using Doe-c-doe's mushroom pattern. It's not really cream, just the combination of the fluroescent lighting and the camera flash. It's going to be a swap pressie for a mushroom loving friend.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Ding dong dell
...I'm still not feeling well. Are you sick of me yet? I know I'm sick of me! Which is why this pattern appealed to me today, I'm feeling rather contrary, and quite irritable, so here I am:
This pattern is a Workbasket one (I think) but I'm not really sure, it was mixed up in a bundle of other patterns and already cut. (If anyone knows where it's from and if I need to take it down due to copyright, please let me know.) This pattern stretched my memory a bit, because it's Nursery Rhyme characters for quilt blocks. I understood obvious ones like Little Boy Blue, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, (a sobbing) Little Bo-Peep, Little Miss Muffet, Georgie Porgie, Little Jack Horner (always a favourite rhyme of mine), and also Jack and Jill - here they are:
When I saw this one I immediately thought of the dirty versions of Jack and Jill I've heard in my time, because Jill definitely looks like she's up to something very naughty...watch out Jack! I'm starting to think that Jack falling down and breaking his crown was no accident, and Jill's "tumbling" was just a cover up to divert suspicion. Might have to get Hercule Poirot onto that one.
But there's also Lucy Locket and 10 o'clock Scholar who I don't know anything about. (I suppose I could just Google them, but that'd be cheating.)
And what baffled me was this fellow who's name had been cut apart from his drawing:
I asked Mr Stitchy if he knew who on earth this boy with a soggy cat was, and he informed me that he's from the rhyme 'Ding Dong Dell'... and proceeded to recite it to me. What a terrible thing! What sort of evil child would throw a kittah down the well?! Such is the stuff of nightmares for me, as a wee stitchy and kitty lover! So Little Johnny Stout has now acquired hero status, as a kitty saver, and all round good guy.
[If you're super keen to make them all as a quilt, email me for the other designs. I haven't altered the size of these from the scans in case you want them for kid's pictures or clothes or whatever, so you might have to tweak them a bit.]
This pattern is a Workbasket one (I think) but I'm not really sure, it was mixed up in a bundle of other patterns and already cut. (If anyone knows where it's from and if I need to take it down due to copyright, please let me know.) This pattern stretched my memory a bit, because it's Nursery Rhyme characters for quilt blocks. I understood obvious ones like Little Boy Blue, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, (a sobbing) Little Bo-Peep, Little Miss Muffet, Georgie Porgie, Little Jack Horner (always a favourite rhyme of mine), and also Jack and Jill - here they are:
When I saw this one I immediately thought of the dirty versions of Jack and Jill I've heard in my time, because Jill definitely looks like she's up to something very naughty...watch out Jack! I'm starting to think that Jack falling down and breaking his crown was no accident, and Jill's "tumbling" was just a cover up to divert suspicion. Might have to get Hercule Poirot onto that one.
But there's also Lucy Locket and 10 o'clock Scholar who I don't know anything about. (I suppose I could just Google them, but that'd be cheating.)
And what baffled me was this fellow who's name had been cut apart from his drawing:
I asked Mr Stitchy if he knew who on earth this boy with a soggy cat was, and he informed me that he's from the rhyme 'Ding Dong Dell'... and proceeded to recite it to me. What a terrible thing! What sort of evil child would throw a kittah down the well?! Such is the stuff of nightmares for me, as a wee stitchy and kitty lover! So Little Johnny Stout has now acquired hero status, as a kitty saver, and all round good guy.
[If you're super keen to make them all as a quilt, email me for the other designs. I haven't altered the size of these from the scans in case you want them for kid's pictures or clothes or whatever, so you might have to tweak them a bit.]
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Thanking!
The very sweet Miss Paula awarded me this the other day:
Thank you so much! Do I need to make a speech? I'd like to thank the Academy, my family, my manager, my personal Guru, my producer... uh, wrong award...
I'm going to tag a couple of people - of course Floresita for being the Queen of vintage pattern blogging, the super-generous Sweet Bee, who always shares all her pattern collection on her blog and Flickr, and my sis Edna for being an all round sweetie. While I'm on a thanking roll, ta to everyone for reading, it makes it more fun knowing you're out there loving the patterns too.
Thank you so much! Do I need to make a speech? I'd like to thank the Academy, my family, my manager, my personal Guru, my producer... uh, wrong award...
I'm going to tag a couple of people - of course Floresita for being the Queen of vintage pattern blogging, the super-generous Sweet Bee, who always shares all her pattern collection on her blog and Flickr, and my sis Edna for being an all round sweetie. While I'm on a thanking roll, ta to everyone for reading, it makes it more fun knowing you're out there loving the patterns too.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Jewellery you can make
Just for a change from embroidery transfers, this page is from a little booklet called Home Crafts that came with Weldon's Ladies' Journal No. 664, dating from the 1930's, I'd say. The text doesn't really tell you anything significantly useful as far as "how tos" go, but points you to an advertisement on page 15 for Bead Wire Jewllery ...a "complete outfit" of pliers, beads and stones supplied for 6/6d. The bead company is called Calipe Dettmer & Co, Ltd, of London. I have a mental image of Calipe as being a 1930's version of Mrs Slocombe ('Are you being Served?') with a buxom chest covered in jingle-jangly beads.
Imaginary-characters-based-on-stereotypical-images aside, I suppose I find this interesting because it shows how little the techniques and styles of basic beaded jewellery has changed. "Some wire, three beads and half-an-hour...such is the simple history of this covetable brooch."
Imaginary-characters-based-on-stereotypical-images aside, I suppose I find this interesting because it shows how little the techniques and styles of basic beaded jewellery has changed. "Some wire, three beads and half-an-hour...such is the simple history of this covetable brooch."
What's not to love?
Saturday, February 16, 2008
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