Phat Quarter "Living In the 80s" Partner Swap Piece


This was the piece Devin sent me for the 80's Phat Quarter swap - I love it! My Lost Boys obsession has never gone away, looking back it seems to have been a huge influence on everything from my fashion sense (mostly black) to my choice of boyfriends...

 Check out her Flickr stream here and her Etsy shop StitchCulture here - I love the vintage owls "Who's Yo' Daddy?" hoop.

Alpacas!

On Saturday I went to Petlake Alpacas in the New Forest for their open day where I WALKED AN ALPACA!!!!!!! It was amazing, even if my alpaca didn't seem that interested in me. My boyfriend's alpaca was very excited about being walked and kept kissing him.

Have some fluffy alpaca photos. I especially liked the one with the creepy snake eyes (and obviously the baby ones).





Wild Olive Summer Stitching Club

Here is a really bad photo of my patchwork piece for the Summer Stitching Club. I have since taken the bits of cardboard out and re-ironed it. I've also found some batting and hung it up on the same hanger from the curtain rail....


I've also got some way into organising my craft room, I have even removed the cushion with cat sick on it. I am a little horrified about how much felt and jewellery bits I possess, especially as I've never really made any jewellery. I plan to remedy this, as I am seriously considering the Rediscover You Creativity Through Making Jewelry e-course (an excuse to buy even more tiny jewellery bits). I doubt my City & Guilds Embroidery course is going ahead, but the college isn't 100% sure - I won't have time to do anything else if it does actually happen (it's not even advertised on their site, so it would be a miracle if it does).