pink and dotty distractions... but lots of excuses.

My life is definitely not my own at the moment.

Scrabbling around, trying to keep up with work demands, weeds and hedge growing at triffid speed, making things for the yarn bombing, painting. Hamsters in wheels have it so easy.

Not upto date yet with anything!!

Pink and dotty pelisse has the lining cut and partially assembled though the collar is being stubborn. I tried with the main fabric top and bottom and it just would not sit right, now trying with a lining underneath to reduce the bulk. Still not quite right – will try it on the cross and look at the centre back lie, maybe make a slight angle in the centre back fold rather than have it perpendicular. Good job it's small!

 

This is with collar 4 pinned on, it is sitting better but imagine the 4mm seam allowance at the neck and the points pressed out properly. Have a matching thin satin ribbon to edge it with- another decision to waver at. The back point almost looks too long... ummm

Found a light weight lining in the stash – described as “synthetic silk : vile berry.” So now officially I'm making a miniature 1823 pelisse to scale in inbetweeny-pinky-browny-slightly-purpley-maybe-with-a- hint-of-grey-kind-of-dusky-pink and dotty, with vile berry lining and tinkerbell pointy bits.

Inspite of this I still really like it. Can't believe I did the couching work – I think it looks so much better than the rouleau work on the purple spencer. - wearing the glasses is an excellent idea!

Apart from these minor advances I learnt how to crochet (more) properly on Tuesday- thank you Youtube! We needed squares for the yarnbombing in July – knitting was just knotting my hands up so crochet was advised. I've dabbled over the years but this time sat down with different tutorials running on the computers and now it's making sense. 8 granny squares later I now have 2 large flowers and a half starved snake ready to go.

The craft group has been blogged about on http://hippystitch.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/craft-group-at-explore-acomb-york.html.......

We are getting quite excited about this now – still making lots of squares and plans. What's the betting that it will rain? - there is a very nice cafe in the park so all won't be lost.

 

And nearly forgot - it seems so long ago - on Monday had a guest tutor Rachel McNaughton at the watercolour group -  very effective techniques and pretty straightforward. Seems daft - the painting was about an hour of effort, each granny square about the same, the pelisse -lots. No wonder full time work seems to get in the way !