Posts under ‘crafts’

Exciting news! The first issue of ink+PAPER is out this week. This is a brand new comics magazine put together by the fabulous David O'Connell, and it includes a photo essay by yours truly. I haven't seen a hard copy yet, but David assures me it looks fantastic. That's his cover illustration up there. London [...]

Earlier this week I took a look at my sewing box and reminded myself that it had been a while since I'd picked up needle and thread and sewn something.  I thought I'd find something fairly simple to sew, to kickstart myself again, and spotted a link to Alison's fab cut-out-and-wear tribute to the Nelson anthology [...]

I've been sitting here trying to grab the inspiration to write about any of the things I was going to write about, and my brain has decided to shut down and not work….

Last night my friend Viv Schwarz had a launch party with Alexis Deacon to celebrate their new children's book A Place To Call Home. They had the party….

I just realised there's a whole load of craft stuff I did last year and forgot to blog about because I was saving some of them for Christmas and didn't want to spoil the surprise…. Here's a hedgehog brooch I made for my friend Anwen's birthday Here's a really terrible photo of the beaded moth [...]

I didn't go out on New Year's Eve, but stayed home sewing instead. My mum gave me a lovely sewing box for Christmas, full of lovely coloured threads and vintage buttons, as well as new needles and scissors and all sorts of other goodies. (the colours are a bit weird on my photos because my [...]

Superstar dollmaker Louise Evans aka the Felt Mistress was recently given the opportunity to run wild and fill Selfridges with monsters, designed with her boyfriend Jonathan Edwards. I went and took some photos before they all disappear again on Christmas Eve. Fradley Benford Austin Flisk and Skeechy Dwippford Mr & Mrs Treep, with the twins [...]

Sorry. The post that was going to go here hasn't been written yet, and neither has the other one that could go here. So instead, you get more things I have sewn.

I've been sewing a bit lately, inspired to pick up a needle and thread again after sewing a miniature version of myself a few months ago (I've always sewed by hand and still don't know how to use a sewing machine). Sometimes I post pictures of what I've been sewing over on Twitter, although I [...]

I keep going to exhibitions just as they're finishing, so it's always too late to tell anyone else about them. And lately I've been going to see exhibitions that have allowed me to take photos, so I've taken photos. And then I've posted them on Flickr, but neglected to even mention them on my blog. And it was pointed out to me that I'd neglected the blog quite a lot, so here's the first of some posts about exhibitions you can no longer go to.

Meet Sunday George who went off to have an adventure…