Well, I’ve been fairly busy the last few days, despite sneezy children and sneezy self. Hot Lemon and Honey helped, as it always does.
Some of the pictures show Rosie’s Cake Bag. That’s her own home-made Christmas present, and inside it will be a little baking set, with a rolling pin, board and assorted shaped biscuit cutters. So, it, hopefully, really will be a Cake Bag, or at least a Biscuit Bag (but biscuits aren’t as pretty as cakes, so we’re just going for the path of least resistance here).
Also shown is a sample of some of the long stripey crotcheted scarves I make (and last year, sold). I’ve had a couple of commissions on these, and so made up a sample, which I may or may not put up on Etsy (prolly won’t, because Etsy is slow moving for me, and also I’ve a focus on prints there, rather than textiles, although I specialised initially in textiles, silk-painting, and mixed media.
The blue tree thing (aargle to more Blue Trees) is a multi-media picture (collage, silk, machine embroidery) that I started work on aaages ago, and then, in a fit of grumpy pique, stuffed behind a radiator (how grown-up of me) and forgot about it. Well, didn’t actually totally forget about it, but forgot completely where it was. Well. Here it is, re-surfaced, and I’d love to do some more work on it, and might well be able to because I have found a really good secondhand sewing machine that I think might be up to the not inconsiderable job of machine embroidering through several layers of paper, silk and paint. The current machine I have is a nice basic modern Brother, but it’s just not strong enough to happily embroider, although it’s fine for basic sewing. The one I go to collect tomorrow is a 1950’s sleek green mean machine, and doesn’t do any fancy stitchery, but is more suitable for my nefarious sewing purposes. So wish me, and it, luck, please. It’s also rather beautiful, and I shall call it ‘Mavis’ or ‘Deirdree’. Shan’t decide until I get it home.
I am thinking of building myself a proper website again, rather than relying on Etsy, because I haven’t done too well on Etsy, and if I’m going to have an online shop, I might as well pay commission on the payments software as on Etsy. And I can then put up applique commissions (frou-frou, but I loooooved making that bag) and fabric commissions, as well as print commissions and portraits, for sale, like the bag and the scarf above, because, to be fair, I tend to sell more through commission than from straight prints anyway. Ho hum. Not sure what to do, but I think I’d like to move forward in some way. Will prolly end up hopping around sideways, though.
