amigurumi

Bad news - no markets this weekend.

My hours for work have been changed so it will have to wait until next weekend. Apparently it was going to rain anyway...

Oh well. Gives me another week to get my stuff together.

I'll be there on Sat April 10 instead.

In the meantime, I'll leave you with a pic of one of the coolest pieces of amigurumi I've seen in a while.


She's the creation of Heather Stoneking, a fibre artist from Florida. You can visit her etsy shop here.

Amigurumi is is the style of crochet animals I make. It's single stitch crochet formed in a spiral.

Although it's one of the simplest forms of crochet. you can do some truly amazing things using the this concept. My stuff if nowhere near as detailed as this.

Other examples of amigurumi, by rad fibre artists:

by Anja, at tinyowlknits

And this is a fave too:

by thekeepmecompany

I'm kinda into birds right now, as you can see.

Etsy is f@$king awesome. I'm thinking of starting my own shop there.

Markets this Saturday April 3!

Heading back to Newtown DIY markets, across from the station, this Saturday April 3.

I'm really pumped. It will be the first weekend we've been up there this year.

I'm quite looking forward to it. We met heaps of awesome people last year. And it's a pretty cruisy way to spend a Saturday morning (as long as the weather is fine). Read a book, drink a coffee, soak up the sun and wait for bites. It's kind of like fishing.... :P

I'm always intrigued, observing the kind of people that buy our stuff. It's a great exercise in beginners marketing. Being able to recognise your target audience/demographic or whatnot .

Anyway, here are some pics of a gorgeous sunny day at the markets from late last year, to entice you to visit. If you want to loiter around and be a stall bitch with me, BYO chairs. I'll be there from 8am-ish to about 1pm-ish.






Got LOADS of work to do between now and Saturday to be ready.

I need to pump out some more resin and also have some new ideas for my owly creatures. Thursday and Friday are dedicated to stock production!! Hopefully see you Saturday.

new 'lines'... eh?

As promised (if not a little later than promised), here are some piccies of my latest projects and seed ideas for a new 'line' of stuff.

Remember, I'm a practicing 'fibre artist' and 'designer' of resin radness... so I get to have 'lines' and 'seasons', and what not. hee hee :-D

a long time between blogs, craft and creative whims

So it's been a long time between bleating heart blog posts!

I have a confession to make - I've been dabbling in other blogs.

They all ended up being a bit boring though. So here I am making my triumphant return to bleating heart.

I haven't fallen off the crafting radar altogether - Sarah, Anne and I got really serious about our crafting exploits towards the end of last year. We formed our own little outfit called 'Corazon Collective' and did pretty well for ourselves at Newtown markets over Christmas.

Since the beginning of 2010 though I've been SUPER slack with crafting. I've made some resin bangles (still unfinished) and two super cute little crocheted owls (modelled on a 'one-off' owl I made for my friend Maria's little girl Lara). And that's all. Really need to sit down and concentrate on some serious work!!!

To be honest I'm feeling a bit uninspired. But I just need to focus again I think.

Hopefully re-igniting the bleating heart blogging bandwagon will help!

I'd like to post some nice piccis of my owls and my newest resin stuff but it't too hard to take good pictures inside at night. I'll take some with good natural light and post them this week.

xx
-t