Posted in Craft, Fabric, Printing, Session, tagged Craft, Little Gems, Visual arts on June 17, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Today I hosted the Little Gem Session in the newly cleaned up shed. I was experimenting with lino prints, hand painting and potato prints on calico and cotton drill. I’m getting ready to do a fabric swap with Jezze in South Africa. The potato prints seemed to work best with the thinner fabric paint. The [...]
Posted in Session, Visual arts, tagged Little Gems on June 11, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I’m hooked on lino prints at the moment. This one (wip) looks like amoeba to me. I’m hoping it will work well as a repeating pattern. I started trying out prints on calico yesterday and they went pretty well.
Posted in Art, Craft, Creativity, Paper, Session, Sewing, tagged Craft, Little Gems on May 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Today’s Gem session was lino cut prints. I used an Art Deco rose motif for mine, Shelly; a Japanese floral motif and guest gem Kerry, a pasifica inspired motif.
Meanwhile, across the Tasman, long distance Gem Billie started work on the “Aunt Lily” project. I’m stoked!
Posted in Food, Home life, vintage, tagged Little Gems on April 24, 2008 | 10 Comments »
For Carmen’s birthday I hosted a Tea Party! Carmen made a fabbo Pavlova, Shelly made Chocolate Eclairs and I made scones, pikelets and club sandwiches. I say!! We all wore aprons from my vintage apron collection and drank tea from Great Aunty Nora’s vintage tea service. Extreme girly fun was had by all! (full set [...]
Posted in Craft, tagged felt, Little Gems, Pataka, Textiles on April 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The Little Gems are featured on the Felt blog at the moment, so have a look!
It’s hard to believe that it’s maybe only 9 months since we all started getting together, there must be a Gem baby due any minute by those calculations! We’ll be trying to get some things together to run parallel to [...]
Posted in Craft, Home life, Writing, tagged Give-away, Little Gems on February 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve got the flu, so this is just a little post as I’m even more spacey than usual.
Little Gem Shelly is doing such a cute give-away at the moment, you have to go and check it out before it flies away. Shelly pays such attention to detail she puts me to shame.
I’ll be doing [...]
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