What to do?

So, my sister sent me an amazing birthday present, two different versions of an Alexander Henry fabric called "Osteology":

They're so great! But what should I do with them? I need amazing projects for this amazing fabric!

Things to do in London in May

Three free things to do in London this month...

Saturdays and Sundays in May, beginning 5th May: Magnificent SevenDeadly Sins, a public art exhibition in the mausoleum at Nunhead Cemetery. Elisabeta Chojak-Mysko, Desiree Ickerodt, Jolanta Jagriello, Debora Mo, Ara Moradian, Jill Rock and Sara Scott each examine one of the seven deadly sins.

12th - 13th May and 19th - 20th May: Dulwich Festival Artists' Open House. Lots of artists and craftspeople in Dulwich will be opening their studios and houses to the public over these two weekends, but I want to give a special mention to Lucy Duke, who will be exhibiting on the first weekend.

14th - 19th May: East London Textile Arts will be exhibiting patchwork and embroidery at St Martin-In-The-Fields, Trafalgar Square.

More weird armour...

Over the weekend I designed a backplate to go with these breastplates and I spent today fitting together the vilene pieces. In order to make this I started off with small paper templates, (which I figured out through trial and error), I then enlarged these using a grid. I printed the enlarged templates onto the vilene using heat transfer paper, cut out the vilene, folded it into shape and sewed/pinned the pieces together. Not at all laborious and long-winded!