Friday Crafternoon

Well what more could you wish for to do on a Friday afternoon that making some lovely crafts. In an attempt to make something like this (below) but in crepe paper, I had a play around and found the best method of construction to make some beautiful paper tassels:

How to Make Paper Tassels

1. Cut out 4 strips of paper, about 2 inches wide.

2. Using squares of double sided tape, secure these 4 strips together with a patch of tape in the middle of the strips. 

3. Fold the strips in half length ways, and then cut small strips up to about 2 inches from the centre fold. 

4. Open out and put another square of double sided tape in the middle. 

5. Roll the layers of paper length ways, as tightly as you can, and secure them with the tape. 

6. Twist the roll around into a loop, and secure near the top with a loop of crepe paper secured with double sided tape. 

7. Make a lot more and there you go! Beautiful!

Pirate Fun in Cape Town

Back in December, when it was freezing and horrible here, I spent a few days in Cape Town which although was much warmer and sunnier, it was also very windy!

The theme was pirates, and so I made a selection of Pirate themed props to take with us:

Wedding Bunting - Made To Order

I've always been mocked by my friends for having 'sewing' as my career. They do things like doctoring which they think is much more important? So I was quite surprised what one doctor asked me to help her make (i.e. do all the sewing) a lot of bunting for her wedding.

 She'd bought a load of fabric which matched our bridesmaids dresses, and some that didn't, and had set her mum the task of cutting out loads of triangles so that we could make an epic amount of bunting.

My boyfriend had groaned at the thought of a sewing weekend, but once my friend and her fiancé had got involved, he felt a bit left out and so was given the very important job of trimming off the ends, and turning the triangles inside out.

We had a good little production line going, and so fuelled by a lot of mojitos, we made an epic amount of bunting over the weekend.

So if anyone is after some custom made bunting for a wedding, or any other event, please contact me on fairlyamy@yahoo.co.uk to discuss.

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Cutting Out London

A while ago, to make a break from my usual stitching and knitting, I was given a brief to cut out many many shapes, including the London skyline. The idea was that the shapes would be used in a shoot, and then would have illustrations added on top after.

Now in my tiny house, cutting out A1 mount board is tricky a challenge. When the board is the size of your entire living room floor space, crouching on the sofa and leaning over to cut out your shapes just adds a rather unnecessary difficulty. But it was still very fun.

As quite often happens, they didn't really get used as planned, but here are a few images...