Check Out These Hooters!!!

Firstly I would like to apologise for my terrible sense of humor and the title of this blog post. It's terribly immature and puerile... and well funny! Lets face it I do indeed have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy and am very proud of it!


Another thing I am very proud of are my new design "Hoots" the older, wiser cousins of tweets. This is the barn hoot design... I also have snowy hoots and tawny hoots but I like these guys best of all my new designs. They have a very wistful expression and the colour combination is really successful too. I also spent today building a lovely new shelving unit for my creations, flat pack furniture and me are not best friends but the resulting shelvage wasn't as bad as my wood working skills usually produce so I'm happy... even if it is a little wonky and the Tweets and Hoots have to cling on!

Felty Fame!!!

Well... Having just got over my surprise magazine fame what should happen but I have received some bloggage from House of Mouse AKA For the Love of Cute!
The House Of Mouse is a fab etsy store run by Anna living in The Netherlands, Europe since 2003. I love her little mouse friends all hand stitched by Anna. Each has it's very own personality ranging from super mice and star wars mice to chefs and angels, any mouse you can think of really! My current faves are her Dangerous mice... I love anything cute with a slightly sick sense of humour to it! Axel the executioner mouse even has his very own "victim"! And what cold hearted person could resist a Frankenmouse... look at that neck bolt... isn't he fab?

Whoops!!!

And look what was pointed out to me at the workshop!!! Yep... that is this self same blog in Interweave Magazine... which i have, have read and not noticed my famooseness!!! How silly am I?

Nuno Felting Workshop

Today I attended a nuno felting work shop run by Jenny Pepper at Hutton Buschel village hall, near Scarborough.
Despite feeling really rubbish (no sleep, bit of a cold) I had a good day, the hall and village were lovely. We experimented with nuno and made our own nuno scarf. As you'll see in my previous posts I have done nuno before but it was kinda new to me since we were using a method which involved beating the crap out of defenseless bits of fabric!

I decided to forgo my tradional blacks and greys and go for some thing bright and bubbly. I fell in love with this hot pink. It's hard to tell from the photo's but it was almost neon... totally lush! I was thinking about jelly fish when i picked the colours and I'm really happy with the final result!

The best part was throwing the scarf really hard at the table! I have a lot of anger issues and it really helped me work thru them! I also learned how to make these lovely long tassels/tentacles/fringing for the edge of the scarf.... It was good fun whipping them about to get them to felt properly! Will take some pictures with my lovely dummy so you can see the full effects a some point... but for now... here is the finished product. Swanky Huh? Don't think i will be able to let this one go either!!!Also just behind the hall was this lovely little shed... gorgeous isn't it... i plan on moving in there soon! Heck it can't be colder then my flat!

Nuno Fun

Being the inquisitive soul that I am I thought I would have a play with Nuno! No Nuno is not an Italian man, Nuno is a felting technique by which you felt onto a fabric base. I got a nuno book for christmas and two chiffon scarf blanks and only just got around to playing with them in august.Thus far I have only made 1 scarf but it was fun and I love the results, my first nuno scarf is a double sided affair in stormy colours. One side is different grey tones offset by a long black stripe down the middle. I used merino wool and ran little strpes of pure white silk fiber horizontally over the top.On side 2 I used a big swathe of black right down the middle with white stripes for a ladder effect in merino again with random silk fibers scatered over the top and curly wensleydale wool down the chiffon sides to make the scarf crinkle a little.

I really love my new merino scarf, it's toasty warm but still quite light and floaty, I'm hoping to get lots of wear out of it this winter. As it's my first I won't be parted from it but I think I have the merino bug now and will be making many more, hopefully! I have even bought a manniquin, called Miranda, to model them and will be adding them to my etsy repetoire soon!

Tweets Take Off

I am loving my new design Tweets, I love them so much that it's hard to part with them! Here are a pair of Tweets getting ready for a long voyage all the way across the pond to their new American home! I hope the like it there! I am particularly sad to part with my blue and pink tweet chick... which was my very first tweet!

I packaged them up well with some pink tissue which apparently they love to make nests out of, I also dropped in a package of Tweet food which is invisible to humans so they won't go hungry! Bye bye tweets!

Tweets!!!!

Poverty is great inspiration!!! Having just had my work hours cut down I find my self a: broke and b: with a lot of time on my hands! Literally!!!!
So, Yes, I did sit around and mope for a bit felling kinda sorry for myself then I got off my big butt and decided to do make some new designs to cheer myself up! What came out when I started felting were all these guys. I call them Tweets, in fact they all have names and their names are Tweet! I asked them: "What's your name?" and each and every one said "Tweet"!!!


Now, Tweets come in and infinite variety of styles (species if you like) from Exotic Tweets, Garden Tweets, Love Bird Tweets and of course simply Tweets!!!! I'm sure I will discover lots of new species as I delve deeper in the the realm of the Tweets... I'm very excited!

So I have donned safari hat and shorts and am setting out to search for more Tweets... The ones I have found already can be purchased at my shop.


TWEET!!!