Bookbinding, week 4

This week, we attached the head and tail bands.

Stack: January

One of my Christmas presents was a subscription to Stack.

Basically, you subscribe and every month they send you a different independent magazine. You don't know in advance what they're sending: it's a surprise. I've decided to review the magazines I receive from Stack over the course of 2014.

In January's delivery there were actually two A3-sized magazines: the Jashanmal Quarterly and Victory.

Bookbinding, week 3

This week in pictures.

Hen party crafts

In the last year I've been to two hen parties that involved crafting. My favourite was the one where the bridesmaids asked everyone to contribute a triangular flag so they could make the bride a length of bunting as a surprise gift. They gave everyone a template so all the flags would end up the same size and stressed that they could be decorated in absolutely any way.

I used some fabric offcuts that I had (the background is a remnant from this skirt) and appliquéd some images that meant something to me and the bride onto the background.

(The bride added the bunting to her wedding decorations!)

Bookbinding, week 2

Snakeskin Wristwarmers

About a year ago I started writing a knitting pattern for wristwarmers with a scaly pattern on them. This pattern is finally finished and written up neatly. It can be downloaded from here or it can be found on Ravelry under "Snakeskin Wristwarmers". Enjoy!

Good grief...

...where did the end of 2013 go?

I saw these guys chilling out over Christmas and it pleased me no end.

I have a couple of posts to go up over the next week and I've just started a bookbinding course, but I don't have any long term plans for this blog. 2014 might be the year I put it on ice. We'll see what it brings.