fab weekend

origami fabric bird I recieved in the swap...made by Anna Lizotte

just got home from Deviot....we had a fabulous 3 days of relaxing creativeness ...being fed delicious fresh cooked food by my youngest...Katie. we sitched, made paper, finished ufo's  showed off, swapped our challenge pieces , caught up with friends and enjoyed the perfect weather and lovely Tamar River views.

10 happy little basketmakers.

 

 

everyones challenge swap creations  , bags, needle book,cushion,

doll,diary cover,hanging bird, wall hanging all amazing.

  

wet paper hanging on the line

 

paper pics

Here are a couple more pics of the paper we made on Friday....I am still contemplating what to do with it, I have a couple of ideas brewing....watch this space.

Paper making

well we did make paper today... we used recycled paper and some cotton pulp from Burnie paper mill and to add some colour and texture some cooked up tall spike reed which was left over from basketmaking a while ago... we had previously prepared all the stuff and frozen it  so it was an easy fun day... Here is a pic of some pages drying .

 maybe the close up then....

just love the candy stripe couching cloth I used....Trace just uses boring old cream stuff !!!