Woo-hoo!! Craftstravaganza!!
I’m in! Welcome, anyone who got here via Craftstravaganza!!!
My past blog entries are a little out-of-date — 2006 was a helluva year — but I’m back, and blogging again, and making stuff like crazy. SweetyBabe is collaborating with me this time, and she is the maker of the fine billiard ball lamps pictured on the Craftstravaganza vendors page. More of her stuff is produced with tools whereas mine has more to do with machines… as in, my sewing machine.
It’s a zillion below zero today here in Minnesota, so I’m indoors producing in the craft sweatshop. Today I finished a round purse made of oilcloth and festooned with vintage buttons, but you probably won’t see it at the show because oilcloth is really, really slippery and it was tough to sew those curves, and even tougher to take the pinking shears to 4 layers of it. Youch… weird blister thing on my finger now…. But I like the concept, and will probably be producing something similar (but less time-consuming and blister-thing-producing). The seams got pretty wonky on the purse so it’s not high-enough quality that I’d be proud to sell it, but it’s enough that I will probably use it myself. It’s really cute if you don’t look too closely! Pics soon.