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Here's to happy holidays and next year being a good one! Less prickly and easier to be around than this one has been.....

May we all remain recognisable to ourselves (unlike poor Tintin #1 and #2 - even Snowy hasn't stayed the same). I'll see you in January, all bouncy and optimistic, and hopefully cured of this sort of internet agoraphobia that's settled in lately.

Good News and Bad

Good news: I'll have some cushion covers, purses, and ribbons on The Fringe Arts stand at the Designer-Maker market! It's one of the best markets of the year, and I'm really excited about it.

Bad news: After much late-night spreadsheet-wrangling, I've decided that my prices will go up from the 1st of January. I've tried to postpone this for as long as possible. It's due to The Price of Cotton, mainly, which means that the price of my fabric will have to go up, and this will affect the prices of finished products. Things like buttons will hardly change, as most of the cost is in the components and the assembly, but cushion covers will reflect the increase most.

Experimental cushions

 

These are all in my shop now. All three were experiments, done between printing orders, just to see....I'm surprised and pleased with all of them, but if I'm going to keep printing them, I'll have to come up with better names than "Roses and Dots".

Colour Crazy

Trying out a few colour and shape combinations, made up into brooches.

Weaving

 

 

 

 

I used Karen Barbe's beautiful mending tutorial to make woven brooches for a group of friends. After removing the woven bits from the card bits, I stretched them over polystyrene ovals (cut from saved mushroom punnets - mushrooms seemed to be on special this month), and secured them with a few big stitches across the back. I finished them off with an oval of felt and a safety pin sewn to it.