Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label craft. Show all posts

Sunday, 31 May 2009

handmade haven.

What a week! After a silly amount of spent indoors sewing while the sun shone, I had my first stall at Glasgow Craft Mafia's 'Handmade Haven' yesterday. I couldn't believe I'd agreed to spend the hottest day this year in a darkened night club, but I was excited all the same.
The event was held over three floors full of stalls decorated with some of the best makes I've seen. I had a booth with my name on it (literally!) on the top floor which, I'd come to realise, was the hottest floor. This is how my booth ended up looking:
Handmade Haven by you.


The quality of the photos aren't very good due to the lighting not being too good in the Buff Club. A lot of the photos I took turned out to be a blur because I was a bit shaky.

Handmade Haven by you.

Here are four of my finished cross stitch portraits which I hung from the top of the booth. You can also see the knitted slice of cake with working LED candle I made for the Maker Faire in March. Portraits from left to right: Mark E Smith, Albert Camus, Grucho Marx, Woody Allen.

The stall was a joint one between Rachel and I. Rachel made all the bakes: two large cakes in the shape of balls of wool with knitting needles, two small thread bobbin cakes and lots of cupcakes with tooled shapes such as jumpers, socks and scarves. Handmade Haven by you.

I made the cross stitch portraits, book marks and cross stitch buttons

Handmade Haven by you.

The market was pretty quiet yesterday but this gave me the chance to have a wee wander round everyone else's stalls and I got to meet some really great people. I get a lot out of hearing about what other people have been making and seeing people working away at something new behind their booth. Most of all I came away yesterday wanting to be more adventurous with what I make and wanting to become more involved in the monthly stalls.

Sunday, 24 May 2009

handmade haven

I have my first stall at the Handmade Haven event which is being run by the Glasgow Craft Mafia. It's on Saturday 30th May, 1pm-6pm @ The Buff Club (enter through Butterfly & Pig).
Please come along and say hello =)

May Flyer

Monday, 2 February 2009

country crafting

So yesterday I went along to the Country Crafting event in MacSorley's. I was really nervous at first because I didn't know anyone that was going. A few temper tantrums later and Philip managed to talk me into going.

country crafting flyer by you.
I remember going to church when I was wee and being scolded for sitting in someone else's seat and I was worried that's what this would be like. Everyone was really nice, it was not the nightmare I'd imagined. A few people had brought along their own craft projets and there was knitting needles and wool so no-one was empty-handed. There was some amazing country music being played and really great cakes with edible knitting magazine transfers on the top.

I was only able to stay for a few hours as I was working last night, but I managed to talk Clare Nicolson- who was running the event- for a wee while. I've liked Clare's handmade things since I first found the craft mafia and I just found out yesterday that she's from Greenock, my hometown. How weird!

Thursday, 15 January 2009

matryoshka

I've just finished a present for my friend Aimee which I intended to give her for Christmas. It took alot longer to complete than I expected, but I'm really pleased with the end result.


matryoshka by you.

I made this using a pattern created by the very talented Clare Nicolson, a textile designer and crafter from Glasgow.