Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Crafting - the Good, the Bad and the...






I had a lovely day on Saturday craft shopping with a friend. We started off at a shop specialising in Japanese material, then onto a shop which sells nothing but buttons and then, finally, to a craft fair. I came home with bags of goodies which I emptied out onto the living room floor and gloated over much like I used to many years ago upon returning from the Show with chocolate-filled showbags (In Australia we have 'Royal Agricultural Shows'. They are pretty much the same as a fair in other countries, whereby farm animals are brought to the City for urban folk to look at, you go on rides, you eat junk food and you buy showbags.)

So, I display before you some of the loot of my haul. Gorgeous 'fat quarters' of Japanese material and also some vintage-style material that I bought at the craft fair; lovely little 'things' (for want of a more technical term) to make jewellery with and some art deco-style buttons and two little hearts which I have since made with the material for my parents' wedding anniversary on Thursday (40 years!)

Then, of course, there is a gorgeous project I just had to share with you. I found a Jackie annual from 1979 while thrifting yesterday and this just leapt out at me. The egg-and-bacon hat and matching bag. Just let me know if you'd like to make them, and I'll send you the pattern...

4 comments:

Stardust said...

I'm sure that my fingers can never achieve those. HAHAHA!

Feronia said...

I wonder if anyone made the egg-and-bacon hat??

Wurst Semmel said...

Oh, Jackie! Oh my. I hadn't thought about Jackie in years. Did you grow up overseas as I did or did it exist here too?

You certainly have the power to awaken a few long asleep neurons!

Feronia said...

No, we had Jackie here. I remember I got a great poster of the Nolan Sisters out of Jackie and it went on my bedroom wall...