JAYNE MANSFIELD STILL WAITING!

Sadly, as Louise was making this Budgie, it died. These things do happen. She laid it out in a way that she does best. This Budgie's gone to heaven.

She will still present it to Jayne Mansfield.

(Sorry, please read the blog two down, if you haven't a clue what the budgie stuff is about)

UNITED WE STAND!

I'd nearly finished my budgie portrait and not in the whole of Prick Your Finger could I find the one black sequin I needed for his eye. 

So, instead of wasting a bus fare into town, I called Barley at Fabrications, your other local Haberdashery over on Broadway Market, and she gave me three black sequins, just in case I lost one on the way home, which I did, and I still have one spare.

Haberdashery in East London is united. If PYF doesn't have what you need, then Barley probably has.  

I teach at Fabrications, and we have lots of mutual friends.  If all businesses worked together like we do, everything would be so much easier.

PRETTY PETER , PRETTY PAUL, JAYNE MANSFIELD IS WAITING!

Thumbs up to our Rosemary for making Budgie Thumb Puppets in time for the most fantastic budgie day there has been, since the actress Jayne Mansfield, presented the prizes for a Budgerigar competition at All Saints Church Hall in Hackney, in 1959!

The event made the front page of the Hackney Gazette back then, and we hope that when our friend Susanna Edwards  ( www.susannaedwards.com ) recreates the competition this Saturday 10th May at the same venue, she will hit the headlines too. 

Our Sue, who really is fantastic, will be re- enacting the fashion and mannerisms of Jayne Mansfield, and inviting Hackney residents with budgerigars to come along and enter. 

The competition will be judged by 'Jayne Mansfield', Ian Sinclair and the Rev Rose Hudson - Wilkinson. 

The competition is part of a multi - stranded artisitic exploration of social, historical, and political issues in Hackney, on which Sue is working with film maker Emily Richardson....but the Budgies haven't been told that. The event will be photographed for an up coming show at Tatty Devine. And it's free and if you don't have a budgie, then why not knit one!

CUSTOMER OF THE MONTH APRIL 2008

Congratulations to Matt and his Nan, for designing and making this classic Black Welsh Mountain jumper. Matt first came to PYF a few months ago now and instantly took to our PYF BWM DK . He's been buying is Nan one skein at a time, and we've loved his visits, with his lovely smile and progress reports. 

As the stitches settle down and the fabric becomes Matt's second skin, we know it will become a firm favourite. His Nan should be proud and Murphy the dog agrees. 

Come back soon Matt!

ZENTANGLE

Do you do Zentangles?

Our friend Jo has just directed us to www.zentangle.com

A website in America, where they give a doodle a better name, and you can 'study' it with a lesson plan and a 'kit' and everything! Patterns like verdigogh, opus, paradox, jonqal, and cadent,  you probably drew when you were young, but never knew it had a name clever name!

It's repetitive and beautiful and satisfying and a healthy way to leave the world behind, which makes it important.

SCHOOL OF EVERYTHING

This morning was sunny, so I spun on the street, where words always are.

I met a lady called Mary, who runs "School of Everything" www.schoolofeverything.com

It's a school where you can learn anything anywhere. She's put PYF on the map, and gave us a lovely sticker that says

"THIS IS A SCHOOL"

You can learn whatever you like, where ever you like, whenever you like, by following the link above. 

So what do you want to learn?

If I can teach you anything, just let me know.....

BONBONKAKKU

There's nothing worse than having a design in you head and not being able to create it. The other Rachel came for tea last night, and we were discussing our new summer dress wish list and she mentioned this brilliant website....

http://bonbonkakku.com

Bon Bon Kakku invites you to submit designs for your fantasy fabric, and then they go up on the site and you and other designers will vote on each other's designs. If you win the most votes, your cloth will be printed and not only can you buy it by the meter and make the dress or curtains you always wanted, or never knew you wanted, but so can everyone else!

what a good idea....