Mika .... Artwork finished ...

do you remember me making a start on this drawing?



its of this beautiful collie, Mika ...



well i finally found the groove and finished it ... if you want to see it in the flesh, you can visit it Here!



The girls worked along side me on the day I completed it ... 2 mikas, a traffic light, a strawberry, a row boat with oars and a flower - daisy is 4 years and home educated ...



three mikas, strawberry, raspberry, daisy flowers, matty is 4 years and home educated ...



i love their drawings. I love how they started with the amazing ears Mika has!

yummy pattern books, to make you drool !

MY FUN TO SEW ... janet barber
this is a book i poured over as a child, i had a whim to go looking for it recently and found it on abe books, from a UK seller ... very exciting and it didnt cost me very much either. looks in about the same condition as my copy ... i wonder if? would anyone like to see inside? its beautifully dated and wonderfully coloured, photots and drawing on every page.


SOFT ANIMALS A TO Z ... carolyn vosburg hall
saw this book on amazon, and while blog hopping
so here it is on my blog too!
the patterns are very clever, i won't make all the animals, but the dog pattern was used to create flash the collie, below, and looks very different from the dogs in the book ... if you fancy trying it, her dog isnt made with 33 pieces of fabric, like mine!
check out that girraffe - i have a fabric that woud look great as a couple of girraffes!

WIP - (flash) the border collie soft toy ...

i was baby sitting the evening before seb completed his coastal charity walk, and thinking about the next day i took some fur pieces and a soft toy book over to my friends house - well, i can't knit!
this is the dog without any stuffing or eyes, or tail!


i used 33 pieces of fabric to create this dog, and inside the ears is a vintage style newsprint cotton, which im rather fond of, to allude to all the media attention for seb and flash!
what do you think of him so far?


the original flash painting and a print for chester park school, side by side for the last time ...


me and the painting before leaving for the beach, i did think i would be giving the pic to seb, instead of raffling or auctioning it, but i thought i might have to argue the case with seb, who had already reached his fund raising target...!