Black Phillip from The Witch ....

It's not easy both sewing of photographing black objects! But I was asked to make a black version of my goat doll, and then I tired to make him look natural by taking him into the tree house!

Actially Black Phillip shows off our tree house quite nicely while himself still playing hard to get with my camera's exposure settings ...

His eyes, being hand tinted rimmed buttons, change in different lights which I think is nicely spooky! Eventually I got a good picture of him indoors against the white walls!

Bees at large!

Remember my bees? Now it's time for their first outing and you can see them here from tomrrow ...

I had a look at all the art being set up today and it all looks really good. If you come to the opening tomrrow you can meet lots of the artists too and me as Queen Cat helping to open the exhibition at 11am. Drinks and nibbles and a voucher below if you bring it with you :-)

And here are the sock bees that turned out so well! Everyone wants to stroke them! Naughty!

Edward Tulane rabbit doll still having adventures ...

Two Edward Tulane Dolls just Left my hands ...

One of them took a moment to send a picture of himself in his new home, via my Etsy shop! He does look rather handsome if I say so myself ...

And here is a little Edward, the smaller version of the doll I make, making a new friend with a very young fan!

It looks like they are going to get on well. If you have one of my dolls I would love to see him ... And you!

Bee-cause I wanted to!

I had a real urge to make some bees. I wanted them to be at least based on the

Anatomy of real honey-bees but based around a pair of cool black and yellow socks... 

Using the filled-width of the socks, I made a full sized drawing to help make the patterns. Those lovely knee socks bee-came the abdomen!

I chose a dense-quality fur from my stash. I can get 8 bee abdomens from a single pair of long socks. Amazingly I had exactly enough black fur to complete all of them! Some thing's are just meant to bee. 

A completed torso, with pipe cleaner legs, looks like a tic!

The 21mm solid black eyes are the right size, but needed the yellow border to keep the bee looking friendly!

Now the wings sent me digging in my bag of lace and mesh fabric. This mesh gave a good effect, but the wings were floppy. So I sewed all the mesh to pieces of acetate, and i had just enough sheets of acetate to complete all 8 insects!

but the acetate and mesh creation still bends, so i added three folds - problem solved! And the folds look like veins too!

Finally the wings are attached with buttons, so they can be moved a little too. The first bee admires my prize flowers ... 

Owl my Love ....

I created another pair of barn owls, one for a friend and one to hang out with me! There should be some cool Artwey events this year for you to meet her ....

A shot of me in my pyjamas, doing some tinting with my Copic Markers!

And finally, another of my involved pieces is completed. She perches in front of my latest IKEA hack ...

Heads and tails ....

More barn owl making, as one will be on display at the library from the 24th of February ....

I love it when the recognisable parts start to appear ...

Barn owl texture ....

Working on two new barn owls, one will be shown locally later this month with Artwey! 

Feels like I have not embroidered for a long time, I am using my old bernette machine for this ....

And some hand stitches in silver thread ....

Getting cross?

This is for a dear friend, Noncel xxx

I do like Donkeys! WIP ...

Seeing Faces ...

I love seeing a new creature come to life...



Adding the tints with copic-markers is one of my favourite parts of the process!

WIP - Owl nearly there!

Much better, thank you - can you see what else needs adding?

legs!

what is this 6-legged creature I see before me?

WIP owl babies ... carefully handmade owls ...

Today i read some craft magazines and worked on Barn owls!

Goats in Coats ....

to be honest I only iron craft work, never actual people sized clothes!



Natty waistcoats for natty steam-punk goats, with fiddly watch-cogs sewn on with invisible thread!



I think they rather like them, i am quite fond of waistcoats myself!

Sock Jesus!

For the longest time i have wanted to make a Jesus doll, and i finally got round to it ...



I chose some tan support socks, and he turned out pretty skinny. I learned on line how to tie on a loin cloth!



My finished Sock-Saviour reminds me of the Jesus that Stanley Spencer had romping all over Cookham, in his expressive and fun paintings!

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!

Owl on a mossy log ....

Getting ready to prance!

I am making some attire and plumes for this little pony - created as part of another plush team challenge.

goat - vote - round two!

and so I made my goat all steampunk, for an etsy-plush-team challenge, and we would both love it if you would go and vote for him in the final round of the competition - it's goat versus blimp!

click thru to see all of him, and if you want more pics here, just ask XXX