Piscari Cattus

      

A New Creative card. Cute but useless as is my wont.

So the burning questions are:

Do we have one or two cats on the cover ? and without any pussy jokes what will we call it?

You know, fat little felt animals  are good for what ails you.

To the tune of ‘fat bottomed girls’…HIT IT !

Hey

I am just a crafty chic

With a taste for nice fabric

But I take pics before I leave my sewing room.

I sew a lot of stuff

And I fill that stuff with fluff

crafty people, make the blogging thing worthwhile .

 

Oh, can you see me sew tonight?

Oh down beside Bernina’s light

Oh I will give it all I got,

Craft-minded girls you make the blogging world go round

Craft-minded girls you make the blogging world go round .

 

I’ve been following the blogs

Sharin’ photos of my dog,

I’ve seen many crafty fads along the way,

But their beauty and their style

Wear kinda smooth after a while

Give me sewin’, give me stuffin’ every time

 

Oh, can you see me sew tonight?

Oh down beside Bernina’s light

Oh I will give it all I got,

Crafty people you make the blogging world go round

Crafty people you make the blogging world go round

 

Now I’ve just turned forty-four

No spring chicken anymore

Ain’t no beauty queens in this locality

Oh but I still got my sewin’

It gets my juices flowin’

Crafty people, thanks for hanging

out with me.

(and from the back catalogue you can revisit forty-three) 

A quickie

   Today I headed in to Melbourne to get set up for the Craft and Quilt fair. I was lucky enough to be invited to be a guest of Catharina’s Vintage Stitches on stand C15. I’ll be there everyday, and it would be awesome if you came and said Hi (I am always terrified no-one will speak to me at these kinds of things).

I snapped a few quick photos today (with permission)

and stopped to tell this booth how much I loved their critters- only to realise it was Stephanie, who I had email conversations with about the show and her creatures before. These patterns make me want to be able to knit (but you guys know what I am like with the string crafts).

Photos at these kinds of things are notoriously difficult to take, but how cute are these sausage dogs ? Booth D26

and if you speak washi – you will be in some kind of heaven.

Crafty Hijinks

Do you guys know Gillian of Silly Gilly? many bloggy moons ago, there was a picnic in Ballarat in honour of Trash’s visit to Australia. It was a hoot.

Recently Gillian and I were talking about the picnic and it was decided that we should have another. So we have booked a hall (Ballarat weather being somewhat inclement) , set a date and found someone to organise the lunch.

Do you want to come along? It is going to be very low-key but lots of fun. Its a day just for hanging out, chatting, laughing and crafting. Its early days, but we have a local shop setting up a stall for the day, some door prizes and plans for goody bags.

You don’t have to be cool or groovy or particular friends with anyone – You just need to be a blogger-its that simple. Come in a group or come along on your own.  Have you ever wondered what a blog meet is like? Well there is often a bit of girly shrieking, a lot of laughter and that funny kind of coded talk we do where we call each other our blog names.

If you would like to come along, you just need to buy a ticket ( a ticket? yep, the cost of the ticket will cover the hall hire, sandwiches and slice for lunch, goody bags and anything else that we organise between now and then) A veritable bargain at $21.50.

If you are a businessy blogger and would like to put something (with your business card) into the goody bags, or you would like to donate a small door prize. Just drop me an email. We already have some fabric and I’ll probably add a toy or two to the mix.

(Now I know there is someone out there thinking “oh man that sounds like fun, but I won’t know anyone and what will I wear and what if no-one talks to me? so email me, I’ll hold your hand and we’ll have a great day)

PDF’s and Stuff

The whole PDF “thing” has become a bit of a big deal hereabouts. I know a lot of you struggle to find my patterns locally and others just want that instant gratification of a PDF: I get a lot of requests for PDF patterns. they are a “win” for the customer. On the other hand shops selling paper patterns struggle against the cheap cost of PDF’s and certainly can’t compete at price point. I have no idea how to keep everyone happy, and the whole thing has been festering away in my mind for a while.

For now I have added my new pattern Owl & Penguin & Duck to my craftsy store.  This pattern uses wool or polar fleece primarily so it doesn’t really fit into patchwork shops (where obviously patterns are there to help sell fabric) so I am Ok with making this one a PDF.  I have some others that will eventually become PDF’s, things are made with  non-cotton fabrics or things that are just more suitable to the PDF format. (Underpants embroidery at last?)

(photo courtesy of Liz Mcmahon)

Do you have the answers to the PDF dilemma? Do you have the answers to keeping everyone happy?

Getting stuff wrong

I am a firm believer that getting stuff wrong is part of the long and winding and often diverting path to getting stuff right. That’s not to say I enjoy getting stuff wrong but I am getting better at accepting (through gritted teeth) that my ideas of wrong often make little or no sense and they may add days or weeks or months to certain projects but they will not be ignored. It’s just better to go with it.

Before I went to Portland I was working on a project but simply ran out of time to get it off to the testers and finalised.

and that's a good thing because when I got home it just didn’t look right. This girls eyes were too big (This is her second head transplant by the way).

She needed new hair, but her body was alright so off to the transplant clinic for her…

but her friend looked funny…so it was of with her head as well.

I remade them both and dressed them and accessorised them and………………blah.

They are fine but I can’t show them here because you will all tell me they are fine or you might even tell me they are great. But ‘fine” is just not quite right enough is it? This morning I am starting again from scratch. I have thrown all the pattern pieces away, I have a cake in the oven and I’m thinking it will end up OK.

I’ll keep you posted.

Why don’t you blog more Jodie? (or be careful what you wish for)

I spent most of the day farting about in the sewing room. I took a photo of my basket collection but didn’t think to get rid of the ugly doormat or half-dead geranium.

I used a dud knight as my pincushion because I couldn’t find my real (and enormous) pincushion. He isn’t even sewn closed.

I finished a monkey and thought about walking to the park to style him in a tree.

I swore a lot at inanimate objects like the empty bobbin and the lost pincushion and the fabric that was a bee’s whisker too small.

and then I walked the dog.