Craft - printing

Craft club again this evening, and we did printing.  My friends brought a brilliant selection of things to print with including celery, corks, string, potatoes, bubble wrap. loo roll inners ...

I used various items to make the gift labels in the picture (potatoes and lego blocks) and some printed paper (potatoes, bubble wrap, corks). One of my friends printed a whole roll of wrapping paper with the most beautiful roses, using celery (like this).

Playing around with the different objects, dipping them in paint, mixing colours, finding patterns - it was another lovely relaxed, creative craft club evening.

Craft - quilting at craft cub

Just got back from a fab evening at craft club - a mixture of quilting and crochet, with wine, cake and lovely friends. We're making progress on our  group club quilt (the colours aren't quite right in the picture - the sashing is a gorgeous vibrant pink) -

I am quite inspired to start my own quilt, but it feels like the sort of project I'd need to devote a few reasonably large chunks of time to, so I might stick with crochet for the time being (at least till the next couple of blankets are finished).

Craft - felting at craft club

Craft club is one of my favourite things. A while ago a friend and I were idly chatting about making things and trying new crafts, and wondered if a couple of like-minded friends would like to get together every so often for the odd evening of crafting over a glass of wine. A year on and there are around 12 of us who meet up once a month and try different crafts. We've done quilting, crochet, enormous tissue paper pom poms, Christmas decorations, and this week we tried felting.

I loved it - I made around 14 balls of varying sizes and colours - not sure what their end purpose is yet but I think I definitely need to make a few more to practice.