Kirby's Craft Corner

Tuesday, 12 July 2011

Preparing for the fayre

I have a fayre coming up in august so I just took a couple of photos of my stock.

Monday, 11 July 2011

As I previously said I have used Amy Butler's 'Sexy hexy "love" quilt' but in my own fabrics. It is a free quilt you can print off from http://www.amybutlerdesign.com/pdfs/Sexy_Hexy_Love_Quilt.pdf. It uses 10 different fabrics in the pattern but I managed to get away with only using 8 and replacing the other 2 with left overs. I've also chosen to use a plain cream sheet for the back instead of the suggested pattern. The binding will be a plain burgundy. The hexagon printed 'nineteen' stands for my age and I am currently embroidering my name above and the date below.

Friday, 8 July 2011

Quilting!!!

For years I have been considering quilting and I have finally taken the plunge! My bedroom is a mix of Edwardian style with 60's wallpaper so as an attempt to bring the two together I am making a quilt from traditional girly prints (flowers, strawberrys and polka dots :P) in red, black, biscuit and white to match the colours of the wallpaper. I am using Amy Butler's 'Sexy Hexy "Love" Quilt' pattern but with my own choice of fabric. I have no photos at the moment but when I am more organised I will upload photos of the fabric, wallpaper and quilt as it comes together.

Monday, 20 June 2011

Cake Covers and Cake Stands

Just a couple of the cake covers and stands I have made over the past few weeks.

Morning After The Life Before

So I held my first stall at the Summer Strawberry Fair. It was really successful and I got dozens of compliments on how nice the stall looked and the items for sale. I sold mostly furniture, crockery and home ware as well as a few handmade gifts. The shabby chic style furniture was really popular as well as a cake covers and cake stands that I made out of crockery and glass I have been collecting.

Here are a few pictures of the stall. Sorry there isn't more.

Final Major Project Exhibition

Sunday, 8 May 2011

Milk Carton Hats

My final project at college is all about recycling milk bottle cartons to make them 'desirable'. This started with just playing with just playing with the plastic to see what it could do.

Rugging

Knitting

Melted knitting

Crochet

Long story short I decided to focus on 1940s style hats as my main inspiration. So I started to work towards a series of hats made out of milk cartons.