Handmade Haven @ Mono

Sunday saw my second stall with Vegan by Nature at Handmade Haven and our first time at the one in Mono. We managed to end up with a pretty good variety of things we'd made.



For this stall Rachel came up with the idea of a book-theme as can be seen from her amazing peter pan and catcher in the rye cakes. I decided to make some more bookmarks with x-stitch quotes and x-stitch portraits. I swapped the Woody Allen portrait at the last market for an upcycled Joan of Arc journal. I whipped up another Woody for this market because it was a lot of fun to do. I also brought along a crochet blanket that my mum made.
The newest thing I tried was the linen bags with antique lace trims. I hadn't used my sewing machine in a while and had a lot of linen lying around. I bought some old 70's-style pillowcases from a secondhand shop near where I live, turned them inside out sewed them to the inside of the linen and sewed on the lace. They were really quick and easy to make but ended up looking really effective. I'm pretty chuffed with how they turned out.



For more photos of the stall, have a look on my Flickr account

sherbet head @ May Handmade Haven.

I just stumbled upon this photo taken by Girl Industries at last month's Handmade Haven.

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:



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.



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.

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



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.

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 =)