Party Bags

Newspaper bags – see how to make them here http://www.newspaperbagproject.com

Hand decorated by Evie and stuffed with drinks, fruit, chocolates, rubber alphabet stamps, Haribos (what party bag doesn't contain these), and crocheted hair slides. I took Evie and three friends to see Nanny McPhee. I loved it. I loved the set, the costumes and sitting still for 90 mins. The girls seemed to love it too but I think I did more.

crewel work

…the crewel puns keep going through my head but I’m going to resist from using them.

Crewel embroidery has been around for over a thousand years. It’s a technique that’s involves wrapping wool over stitches to form a decorative relief on the surface of fabrics.  More often than not,  the patterns stitched are of flowers and are used to add adornment to womens clothing.

I’m a fan of most embroidery techniques and really like some this one. I have two cardigans which have crewel work on them; one is from the 1940′s/50′s (above) and one from the 60′s which was purchase at the weekend, coincidentally found hours after I had tried the stitching technique at home.

My attempt was quick and fairly crude (pink bud) and I was thinking how  felted
crewel embroidery would look so I may try adding some samples to a
machine wash to see how they come out.