Craft Fair Detour

Thank you for all your nice comments about my monkey yardage! I am very busy right now-- I only have two more weeks left before the end of term. This past weekend I decided to put off all my school projects and create a product for a craft fair that our class was invited to participate in. As you can see, I made iron-on animal badges. The animals are silkscreened on cotton fabric with iron-on Heat-n-Bond on the back. Most of the animals I drew myself. The rabbit and the bug were taken from my 5,000 Animals book. It was a beautiful fair and I wish I had taken more pictures, but my camera ran out of batteries. I am happy to say that I sold quite well at my first craft fair!

Adventures in Pattern

Well folks, I have not been the best blogger of late. I have been hard at work on all sorts of new projects. One of my big assignments was to create 3 metres of fabric using a repeat of a silkscreen image. I have been thinking about this project for weeks. It took weeks to design and hours to print. Here's the result:

There's No Place Like Dressew

Maryka and Kevin came up to Vancouver last weekend. They said they wanted to hang out with Andrew and me but I think the real reason for the visit is that Maryka has become a Dressew Junkie. Dressew is a bargain basement wonderland full discount fabric and sewing related notions that has to be seen to be believed.



Kevin is thinking, "Maryka better not buy that creepy plastic doll's head! I don't care if it's only 25 cents!"



So much fabric, so little time.



Buttons! Buttons! Buttons!



Oh, my! Come to Vancouver and see for yourself!