MAKING BUNNIES

You may remember, dear reader, that last easter time, there was a lot of rabbits.

Rocky found a pattern for Bobby the felt bunny, and kindly gave it to us. The last person to make Bobby, possibly lived in Romford, and was determined the pattern should never be thrown away. Purely by chance, I inherited another Bobby the felt bunny when my friend Richard died. I think Richard might have made him, and he happily lived in Barnes.

When we looked at the pattern, it had been traced in a rather odd way, and some of the pieces were back to front. Our friend Kate, lovingly sorted it out, re-made the pattern and made a new Bobby, chewing a more modern yellow carrot.  I'm sure you'll agree he is very sweet.

Bobby patterns are on sale soon, or you can make one as part of our our Christmas presents class. How could a strange relation resist a bunny like this?

AND THEN HE GREW PINS....

Hedgehog sprung to life when he grew pins, and leapt on our Rosemary. 

He was pleased to meet her properly after all this time in her hands. 

He'll stare you out, and do you needles £3.50 a pair - if you approach him in the appropriate manner.

PICK, MIX, RIP, SEW.

For a complete new look this winter, start here! Charge yourself up by looking through this season's fashion collections, then make your way to the scout hut behind the old gun shop on Brick lane, for a vintage sale.  Choose a £10, £20 or £30 bundle bag and fill it with old clothes. Take it home, try them on, in as many ways as is physically possible. 

Get ready with the scissors, a dye chart, pins and needles, and customise. 

For help with customising, bring your ideas to Fleur's "Get it to fit, Love it forever" class at Prick Your Finger on the first Wednesday evening of every month. 

OUR NEW FRIEND.

Sometimes our creations don't always turn out how we expect, and it can be such a lovely suprise. 

We are  bonding with Rosemary's hedgehog. He's much bigger than we thought, not finished yet but he introduced himself to us yesterday afternoon.  

FOLKOLOGY SAMPLER.

Folkology is a Hungarian folk art company, who sell traditional cross stitch designs, which we stock at PYF. This is my attempt at 'Starflower 3'.  

For generations the women in my family have produced beautiful cross stitch samplers, but the talent has not passed on to me. I find it difficult to stick to the pattern, and tend to go a bit off road.  I did wonder, had I lived two hundred years ago, would the mess on the reverse side of Starflower 3, have meant I could never marry?

 Louise suggested that many religions use pattern as a form of meditation, which I tried to do but my head was a bit over cluttered this week, it being fashion week and all.  To my delight I realised I am not trying to imitate God by being perfect. I enjoyed the red and white and learned that I need to practice symmetry, and through that, I could learn about music, astronomy, cosmology and natural forms, and untangling my thread.

Folkology patterns start at £5.

DAVID BOWIE- FASHION

It's Fashion Week Tuesday and we've seen a lot of good looks already. Last night I had the pleasure of being kissed by a man wearing Monet's Water lillys in the form of a foam rubber mutton sleeved bolero with skinny black jeans.

Here is David Bowie's fashion.

LOOK AFTER YOURSELVES THIS FASHION WEEK.