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rat

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A  rat!  In silver and grey Fortuny fabric, with a little antique lace ascot  and a condescending manner.

rat

he considers you briefly,  offers a perfunctory farewell

rat and castle

And is off to his castle

a new shape on my worktable

I’m working on a new shape, a new creature.  For me this is all about persistence: lots of drafts, prototypes , experiments, failures and adjustments.  So many failures and adjustments – these are just some:

new creature

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new pattern

Over the weekend I felt close enough to the shape I was looking for to cleanup the pattern and try one in  good fabric. After a few more pattern refinements and  adjustments  I finished a little  fellow made from beautiful  silvery grey Fortuny fabric tonight and I’m going to photograph him in the morning  - here’s a little shadow preview of him  on an evening stroll through the toadstools.

shadows

new owls and spiders

I’ve just added some new owls and spiders to the shop:

seaton

seaton

queen elizabeth II

queen elizabeth II spider

green perching owl

green perching owl

(there are some others too)



once i loved a spider

spidersannwood_smI love that poem  - ” she took me all apart”…….     I have added the spiders to the shop.

dark things

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new in the shop

I’ve just added some new bats, perching owls and songbirds to the shop.

ivory perching owl

brown songbird

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bats

boat work and a bat

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I finally turned out another bat ( I’ve just added it to the shop).  It’s made from beautiful plum kimono silk (courtesy of Stephen Szczepanek). Some of the patching and mending is mine and other stitches are from other hands a long time ago.

plum bat

I’m  also working on new boats  (with merry wobbler passengers)  and  lots of other stuff too.  I’m adding new things to the shop every day this week.

wobblers and boats

mostly creepy shop update

spider vase(click for larger image)

There are spiders and lots of new things in the shop.

estella

Estella (bride of pip) is made from the edwardian ball gown.  And Melchior has fancy lining in his feathers.

melchior

Happy Halloween!

a beast and a ballerina

beast

silver ballerina

She is silvery. I feel like there should be a rule that if I get a little fabric bird to balance on her glittery toes I should be able to take the rest of the day off. But it doesn’t work that way. Today will be long and I’m making a big mess ( you can see a bit of it here) getting things finished and photographed for the shop.  You can join the mailing list or check back here if you’d like to know when new things are available.

infestation!

infestation

They are mostly harmless though and just curious about you.

timid spider 3

This girl is quite timid and you mustn’t startle her.

timid spider 2

Or she’ll run off and disappear into a dark corner.  That’s when you have to worry, when you can’t see them……..