Winter finger puppets

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A lovely Christmas present x 

 

Here are two of the puppets I made from the set. I think the eyes look really sad, might try tiny buttons instead. 

Note book making

 

I cut each page 6 on an A2 sheet. I had stamped notes and used sporting images from my friends team. The images came from a CD on EBay and then I printed them at boots onto photo paper. I have tried to make each page different. 

Christmas wrapping paper

This year I decided to print my own wrapping paper using this great stamp I found in EBay. 

I stamped in a black ink but then coloured in the gifts with Sharpie markers and as it's Christmas gave the hedgehog a red nose. 

I then used my alphabet stamps I got last year from EBay to personalise the paper with who the gift is to and from. 

The twine tie and tags are all different on my gifts as I used a set from John Lewis  

Lino block printing of Xmas cards

So I went to a workshop at Stag and Bow, Forest Hill www.stagandbow.com and learnt how to create a lino print. We used oil based printing inks. 

My finished card 😃. 

Test print of hedgehog design. 

My initial sketch 

Current wool I'm using

This is such a great colour and wool to work with I took a pic so that I can remember it for future 

Book binding

crochet

My early stages of crochet ... 

Screen printing

So I attended another great workshop at Stag and Bow, Forest Hill. We used screen printing fabric in a embroidery hoop to push the paint through a paper stencil. A foam base was used to take the cushioning of printing then some cotton cream fabric with the stencil and finally the hoop on top. 

I used basic colours of printing paints but started to mix the colours by not washing my hoop. Later in I printed my designs on top of each other using two different shades. 

1940's felt posy

Today I went to a workshop at Stag and Bow in Forest Hill, London and went to a lovely workshop ran by Helen Pinnington. 

New baby gift

I made this for a friend. I adapted the pattern from the magazine to make it twice as big at the top I also decided to add a second row of flowers instead of love hearts as I like it that the images are similar in the design.
I used a selected short colour pallet of dark green for the edge and bottom flower and light green for flowers. I used old cream missing one square out. I used a mint green background with to tiny holes.

Spanish buttons and thread

On my recent holiday I went to Polop Rastro and picked up super cute ribbon with owls on as well as cute apple shaped buttons. I also dug round and found some unusual ones...

Blanket stitch

So I went on a great embroidery course last week and decided to use what I learnt and take photos of each stitch and how to do it before I forget.

Crochet

My first attempt with help from my lovely friend for showing me chain stitch.