Delicate

 

I've been doing some screenprinting for a wedding and this afternoon I was testing out some printing on organza so I thought I'd tape the delicate fabric to the window and take a few photos.  I had to do some pretty acrobatic positions to get the sky and the house next door in the background and not the washing line with its ugly fluoro pink pegs!  

 

The flowers are manuka, kowhai and kakabeak.

Maybe some screenprinted curtains are in order...my furry friend seems to think so!

Back to the drawing board

My feather skirt was all going according to plan - I spent lots of the weekend working on it, and an identical one without the feather...

A little too identical. I had to cut them both a bit shorter, shortened the one with the print, then thought I was shortening the one without the feather...when actually I was cutting 8cm off the printed one I had just shortened, wrecking the print. So now I've got one featherless skirt and one sewing disaster reminding me that there's no rage like sewing rage.

My featherless skirt. 'Scuse the lack of ironing.

Found some pretty geraniums though; they're making their way into a painting.

And at least I didn't sew my finger to my garment this time! How about you, had any sewing disasters lately?

My creative space

When I lived in Wellington, I would always see a guy walking around with a little blue budgie snuggled onto his shoulder. It always looked like it was whispering secrets in his ear.

I drew this kind of old-fashioned version last night - I'm going to cut out this old-fashioned lady, and her budgie...
...collage them onto one of these floral fabrics (some of which I photographed from old mattresses in the inorganic rubbish collection)
...and make her into a greeting card. She's got a few sisters too; I think one of them is going to have a crow on her shoulder, another a macaw and another a sparrow.

To see other people's creative spaces take a look over here.

Happy Thursday!

Green fabric

I have a bit of a green fabric problem. My stash of it is threatening to take over the house. Here are a few favourites from my stash, awaiting the perfect project:
This last one is neeearly a dress now...a bit of hemming and it'll be done. I love the big flowers on it; they kind of remind me of these stencils by Flox:

Victoriana

I love this kind of Victorian style of picture - children who look like dolls, cats that wear clothes, floral wreaths, that kind of thing. I'm not really sure what it's called...Victoriana? Here are some of my favourites:


And here are some flowers that wouldn't look out of place in a Victorian wreath...

A quick project

I made this brooch while I was on the phone the other night, trying to multitask! It was really easy; you need a fake flower (I got mine from good ol' Spotlight), a brooch back and some cotton. Sew the brooch back to the flower and Bob's your uncle!

Winter showers bring yellow flowers

Or something like that.

I found this mysterious yellow flower on the road on my way home from work today. It looks like a maraca and smells like mango, frangipani and icecream.

This tui paused for long enough for me to take a photo before flying furiously away.

They were selling daffodils at the dairy for Daffodil Day so I got this cheery bunch. They get the cat seal of approval!