From tiny to huge! Pet Portraits ...

From this tiny well loved degu, captured in black and white ...

To a colourful calico, who I have created in exchange for some fabulous hand knitted gloves ...

And via this special horse, who I had to keep off line until the birthday when he was presented. I will probably go back to working on my book now ..

Remember our Family Textiles? Cushions completed!

We had colourful fun trying to create some new posh cushions for our sofa ... Here is Daisy's Tiger, painted and with pastel detail added ...

And Mary's Meerkat featuring a nice bold green outline. 

And Matty's Fox, also showing great colour mixing and shading too. 

You dont have to encourage me to be colourful, the top i was wearing in the photo this was drawn from is almost that bright pink. 

Then we all tried quilting for the first time, and I began to make the art into actual cushion covers using a fun table cloth I found second hand.

Mary sewing and keeping a nice tension on her running stitch ... She is now 7 years old and very fond of sewing ...

Matty May and Daisy can now all enjoy a new cushion when reading books on the sofa ...

My own cushion receives approval by Salt Ferret herself! so much so she stayed still long enough for a photograph!

rabbit and cat family ceramics!

those cute critters were finished and have left my hands - but not before they had a nice play in the dolls house! The terracotta body was glazed in off white, then i used those low fire paints to add the clothes and features!

The cat family was fun, i am calling in the young son Kevin!

Worked with clay!

Here is a little cat family and a little rabbit family! They need to dry out and be glazed...

WIP - goat dolls ....

I decided it was time to make some more goat dolls ...



But they do feel rather undressed, and they both need their noses and mouths embroidered, and their hooves needle-sculpted!


I used my other goat doll pattern for both of these, but the longer denser fur created a much taller goat!

Down on the farm ...

with farm-hand Jack and the mystery hand ...



counting the 17 sheep ... not finding the hidden wallabies!



meeting some handsome horses ...



driving the tractors round and running over Uncle Ed ...




All the girls (and Mummy) having a ride on Mandy the pony ...



Who is not a riding school pony ...



Having a rest at the end of a busy day ... Lilly and Uncle Casper ...

looking after the feathered girls ....

The first time daisy took the scraps out, she threw it on the floor and ran away!



Matty and Mary are also happy to come close to the birds now ... they are looking t o see what the chickens choose to eat first!



no eggs yet, though ...

Workshop and Coffee morning - all ages!

Winfrith Village Hall
Tuesday 17th August 2010
10.30 until midday

COFFEE MORNING

Come and enjoy a cup of coffee or tea and cake featuring Cat’s workshop - making charming creatures from Socks and Gloves!

Bring a pair of knitted socks or gloves
Scissors, needles, thread.

Acrylic stuffing and instructions, provided.



I will bring along classic red-healed socks, and sock monkeys - some in pieces !

And the sock donkeys made for Matty and Daisy ...



Plus a sock elephant or two, to inspire!

More family ...

Eric took some nice pics of us on our trip to Kingston Maurward ...



feeding some cute black woolly things ...



my mum handing out chicken feed ... my kids were a bit peckish!



time for our lunch - Mary waits for me to open her lunch box ...



looking for the fish in the pond, before heading home ....

visit to Fancy's Farm, Portland ....