Sew Vintage flower making drop in sessions

I have been overwhelmed by the response to my two flower making drop in sessions held at Sew Vintage,
Wells. Above is the first one last Wednesday, it was such a lovely day we just had to sit outside. Yesterday I had 13 ladies turn up! Took me by surprise and I was woefully unprepared, but what a fantastic morning, with lots of flowers and leaves made and more on the way. Thank you to everyone who came.

Dilemma

The top peony is my new take on the original peony printed in my book, it took me about 3 days to make & then write the pattern, but I am not sure whether to submit it as a replacement or not, I quite like the simplicity of the original peony - dilemma!

Would you like to make some flowers....

Hope you don't think I'm cheating, but I will be running a couple of drop in sessions at Sew Vintage, Wells www.sewvintagewells.co.uk to make flowers for my Somerset Art Weeks installation. Jules and myself thought it would be lovely to invite people along to her gorgeous shop to make some flowers. You will need to be able to knit or crochet, but hopefully it will be a lovely way to spend a couple of hours and there will be cake (homemade of course).
The jam jar posy is just one more idea for the installation, flower ideas are coming thick and fast now....promise to add more images soon.

Glastonbury Festival 2013

Have just had a fabulous few days, on Saturday we went to the amazing Glastonbury Festival , one perk of living close is being able to go in for only one day & not feeling to guilty, as it is only a 15 minute drive away. The Sun shone, Rolling Stones played and everyone had a good time.

One highlight for me was also seeing my 'Crochet Daisy' image on a 100 metre banner for Somerset Art Works, great idea by SAW and hopefully an annual occurrence.

Here is an image of the banner, not the best I'm afraid as it was taken on my phone, but as you can see - 

No Mud!

                                                                  

It's been a while............

Lots of new projects have been coming my way lately and it has been hard to fit in time to create anything for my installation, but here at last is an idea inspired by the lovely little Sylvac basket vase that I bought in 'The Trading Post, Wells' which for anyone who has been there, knows is veritable treasure trove of goodies.

The 'wood violets' are all crocheted and took most of yesterday to make, but what a lovely day to sit in the garden crocheting, even got a bit of a tan.

Sun is still shining, so hope to be out in the garden crocheting away again very soon.

Knitted Lily

Here is my first attempt at creating a lily, as a first go I am pretty happy with it.  I can see where to make changes and hopefully improve on this one, think that the yarn I chose it perhaps too thick & stitches too loose, anyway more trial and error no doubt. Although the white is pretty good, feel that a yellow or orange 'tiger lily' would be more dramatic, I have tried using fabric as well, but with no success as yet.

I imagine putting a group of 'tiger' lillies in the blue and white vase, think it could be quite dramatic.

Flea market booty

What a wonderful bank holiday weekend, the sun shone & I headed over to the Bath & West Showground. What an amazing Flea market, I went with purpose & was very pleased not to be too distracted, my plan was to buy vases & jugs for the installation & here is my 'booty'.

Not quite sure what flower to put in the Murano Glass fish vase yet, but am sure inspiration will strike.