and so it was

that I had another great sewjourn experience.
Despite the fact that it took Annie and I four hours to make a one and a half hour journey, we arrived and got straight into it. (We popped in to Drapers of Mt. Macedon on the way and I have to say this may very well be my new favourite patchwork shop)

I made a cushion for a friends babyand then completely stuffed up the next one...

yep , somehow the lining ended up on the outside...ooops but I unpicked and reorganised and moved on.and the weekend passed with lots of laughter - lots of swearing (from me as I attempted actual garments) and a wonderful sense of camaraderie between friends as the conversations ebbed and flowed over our craft and our families , our lives and which male persons we would hire as stable hands when we built our craftopia (and yes it was me wanting the stables and I decided if I had enough horses I could employ both Viggo Mortensen and Johnny Depp to help me.)

We visited the local shops and the Farmers market where I went a bit produce crazy and came home with jams and preserves and bread and sweets. I spent a crazy amount of time patting dogs and chatting to chickens, listening to buskers and generally just easing along.
I op-shopped, and book shopped and slowed down and hung out and (apart from swearing at clothes) had a great time.
and now with my new-found garment sewing skills I'm off to measure up Johnny and Viggo for some tight-fitting jodhpurs - I mean it's a bugger of a job but tight fitting jodhpurs are an Occupational health and Safety requirement!

Johnny? ...oh Johnny?

Its done ! The scarf of longing and branches and texture is finished. (You may need to backtrack to this post to understand)

The fabrics are a mix of bought from pipijoe, donated by Kirsty (Thank you) and stuff from the stash.

I love the gocco pieces. I retyped part of the Scarf blog post and translated it to French and then gocco'ed the text onto some wool, satin and other general shiny fabrics as well as some velvets.

I foundation pieced it together and then backed it with some soft black velveteen.

I actually made two of these at the same time, one I am going to keep and it will debut at work tomorrow and the other one will be in the next shop update.


Now which one to keep...Johnny? oh Johnny? Could you possibly come over and just drape these around your neck? pardon? You think they might look better against bare skin?

Do I mind if you take off your shirt?

Of course not dear, Whatever makes you comfortable .......