Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workshop. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

colourful crafty hijinks

weeks have sailed by
and i haven't mentioned
some crafty hijinks
hosted by Jodie & Gilly
in the sweet victorian country town
of ballarat ....
day trip with Karen & Bron
met up with a host of bloggers
lots of whom are quickly becoming great friends
that's the thing about blogging & reading blogs
there may not be a lot of time spent face to face
but when you do catch up you feel like
you're 'up with' what's been going on
most especially what's been in the 'making'
it feels a bit odd at first actually
but its good, very good

was the most excellent adventure
for a spot of indoor picnic-ing ....
chatted with Lara & Bec & Nicole & Breanna & Cam
& Cathie & met lots of lovely new faces
& we missed you Anna!

there were door prizes & raffles 
& all the performance of a stage-full of pass-it-on-crafty-goodies
took stuff
came home with new stuff
good stuff too!
thank you for sharing people

oh & there were some quick little workshops too
Jodie chatted about rag rug making
Bec ran us through hexies
& me .... little hands on workshop & chat
about using colour 
& being
brave
with colour on colour
tried to encourage everyone to choose the interesting road
suggested 3 colour combo 'recipes'
1 - choose any three colours all in a row 
from the colour wheel
2 - choose opposite colour on the colour wheel
complementary colours
3 - look at nature
the world we live in just never gets it 'wrong'
.... and of course
i always like to 'tweak it' 
.... add a little colour on a small scale that's subtle 
yet powerful to contrast it all
some
other
crafty
hijink-sters
thanks for a fabulous day everyone
looking forward to another

always a great day when you connect with other crafty/arty types
speaking of connecting
if you're reading here
i always love your comments
its just 'nice' to know who you are & ...
well .... connect! xo


Saturday, September 1, 2012

You Sew Girl! Chunky Purse day ...

  had a simply wonderful day
arrived back home last night
to attended a planned workshop today
loved every minute
thankyou to the incredibly talented & knowledgable
had the complete pleasure
in making Nicole's
love it ... it most certainly is chunky
it will hold a whole bunch of precious goodies
learnt lots of hints & tricks
& I might just try this 
using a pattern thing more oftern

 oh & my side by side studio work buddy was a new-to-me ... Karen 
"v nice to meet you Karen!"
here are our results lined up next to each other
Karen made the 150mm Purse ... we were very proud of these
... our fearless leader stepped us through her very clearly designed pattern
now ... on to try another design & step up the tricky factor ...
 .... did you notice its green!
i love green ....