Carly and myself took ourselves off to Stitches and Craft show in Melbourne recently. We had a great time. There was a lot of your more tradition crafts, but our favourite was 'The Incubator' which featured "the freshest indie craters...the best Australian contemporary craft and design.." - basically all the stuff we love from the bloggers we read and Etsy sites. One of the highlights for us was visiting the Ink & Spindle stall,
where we both purchased some little scrap/sample bundles of their fabrics. They were such a friendly, down to earth bunch. We also went to a talk by one of the girls, Bianca, on Home-based craft businesses, which as excellent. I have posted a project, below, featuring some of the fabric purchased, but will post some more stuff as things get made...
Any who.. here are some (mobile phone) photos from the day, there were these little displays dotted around the place... enjoy...
The weird and wonderful green bits and pieces are crocheted..
Paper Babushka dolls...
yes its knitted...
One little, but fairly labour intensive project I did recently was a Moopy Bunny softie, from the 'More Softies' book. Carly needed one, and I hate following patterns, so this was a real labour of love. Softies look easy. But I am quite happy with the finished result and I would do another, now I know the tricks involved. I used some new fabric, some old, some recycled and the body is fabric purchased from Lara (from Ink & Spindle, mentioned above).
And we do realise we should be posting about our actual products, which will be happening very soon.
