Sunsmart

I made this hat the other night - it's from Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing book. I read a few reviews of this pattern that said it was giant, and while I didn't find the crown too big the brim is low enough that I have to do exaggerated head movements to look before crossing the street!

It was lots of fun making a hat; I'd like to have a go at making one with a slightly smaller brim next but I think this one'll be handy for keeping away our harsh sunlight.
Loulu had her own way of being sunsmart today - turning the door under the house into a grumpy cat sunshade!

My creative space

In my creative space this week I've been doing a bit of this:

and a bit of this:
to make these:
and this:
for this.
I'm going to make the huia and swallow prints into fabric brooches. The leaf and petal printed fabric is a bit of a practice using my homemade stamps to make patterns...and to make sure it passes the all-important colourfastness test.

How about you, what have you been making? To see what's going on in other people's creative spaces, head on over to the "our creative spaces" blog.

And at the risk of filling up the internet with pictures of cats, I'll leave you with a picture of a super cute cat called Ernie that I met the other day. Aww, that tongue.

Happy Thursday!