A bird in a gocco cage or one thing leads to another....

The craft at work challenge, in which Annie and I embroider a wee square each week over two lunchtimes has been going great. Annie is a very patient teacher and doesn't seem to mind that she has to teach me the same thing again and again (like french knots).

This little guy has been inhabiting my brain for weeks.....

resulting in this


This is my first attempt at Goccoing fabric with two colours. I did the red bird blob first


After the red blob dried I printed the cage part over the top - It was really easy once I had figured out the lining up bit!

Then Hey presto a bit of embroidery (yes a French knotted eyeball - please be impressed).

Then I sewed them up and added a little base. The base is hard plastic like templastic covered in fabric and hand sewn to the bottom.

I actually made these as accessories for the dollies and monkeys but I like them so much I imagine a whole tree of them dangling about.

So far I have made 7 and have only 3 left. Annie got one, Mum visited and pocketed one, Jem took one for a friend and I appear to have lost one somewhere in the sewing room

(never to be seen again).