Elbow Patches, Cushions and more!

I thought I'd share some photos from the past week or two so you can see all the different things I've been doing!

Elbow patches and vintage dress repairs for Broken Girls Club

A huge pile of screen printed plushy cushions for Who? clothing

Some more for Droneboy Laundry too

Another of my Dahlias that I've grown from a bulb finally showed its beautiful colours this week. The sunshine's been all over the place so we have a few late bloomers! I spent Friday sat in the garden working on some embroidery and soaking in the atmosphere. The garden is full of spiders and I even had a visit from a dragonfly!

We had a big gathering at Porthkerry Park in Barry after Lucy's funeral on Thursday, a few of us helped set up the gazebos in the morning and I made a pile of tissue paper flowers, bunting and bows to decorate the place. It felt like a mini festival as friends played music too.

 

 

 

 

Love to you all everywhere, enjoy your crafting!!

cushions for who?

I was asked, after making the traffic cone cushions for Droneboy Laundry, to make some for Who? clothing. I still haven't met Scott, but I like the simplicity of the logo and the site has some fun stuff for the boys! Its a skate lifestyle brand that's relatively new but have loads of different styles of tees and hoods etc already listed on there shop page. I especially like the tie-dye tee! Anyhoo back to the sewing!

I've recently been given a lovely pile of screens from my good friend Kate, I don't think she realises quite how much of an amazing gift she's given me but I'm super grateful.

Scott had said he wanted the cushions quite large so I made up a screen with the image about 70cm long. Here's the film work in the exposure unit just waiting for my screen to dry!

Just after you expose the screen you have to wash out the unexposed emulsion so it doesn't set in the screen. Then let it dry and boom you're ready to go!

Unfortunately my camera was playing up and I deleted the cutting out and printing photos. Oops but here you can see me putting the things together! Curved edges are the one thing I do pin to death, I can be quite lazy with the ol' pinning usually, but a mega curve like this you can't not, it just won't fit.

Once you've sewn it up make sure you notch around the seam so it won't pull on the stitches when you turn it inside out.

Then you can stuff the monster! The golden rule is to cram in as much stuffing as you can, a limp under stuffed plush always looks lame haha.

Lots of stuffing!

They're fun to make although a little long winded but I'm pleased with how they've come out. Good bold design helps :) nice one Scott.

Totes Galore.

I've spent the past week up to my neck with work and hay fever. I swear I'm queen of last minute random stuff. This week I was approached by Dave from Droneboy Laundry as he is opening a new 'pop up shop' for the next six weeks in Castle Arcade in Cardiff. He asked me to make 'Droneboy' cushions for a bench/seating area in the shop and also if I'd like to also sell some of my own work in there! Of course I couldn't turn down an opportunity like that, so got on doing some crazy hours sewing my little sneezy socks off.

The droneboy character is a traffic cone with trainers in its simplest form so I made some plush cushions!

I haven't properly restocked my sellables box since the last fair I did so I decided the easiest thing to do was to use up some of the plain shopping bags I'd bought and print some of my more recent designs. The balloon screen worked really well compositionally on the bag but I do love the intense pattern of the carousel horse repeat.

Here's the collection that I've taken down to the 'Lo Coal Storerooom' . I've also dropped down a jar of eyeballs and another filled with severed zombie fingers! Today I'm working on some more felt badges to take down and there's gonna be some more fun stuff printed and stitched up next week. I'm really excited about whats coming soon hehe.

(there's loads sorry :) )

 

I made some tags up using brown luggage tags that I found up in the village post office.

And then got to finally put the Kimble gun I bought off eBay months ago into good use!! lol what a silly spontaneous purchase it was!

Here's a few action shots from down the PrintHaus on Tuesday night.