tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158040386568287392024-03-05T07:31:36.624+00:00Cobbled Together by BrennaSomething new each weekBrennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-59000388784482086982015-03-14T10:55:00.002+00:002015-03-16T09:17:17.929+00:00Threads of Moirai: 13-23 March Castlemaine State Festival 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Since moving to Castlemaine I've come together with a bunch of talented local textile artists and started a textile collective, check out the Cobolt Textile Collective <a href="http://www.co-bolt-textiles.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. Our first group exhibition has just opened as part of the <a href="http://castlemainefestival.com.au/2015/2015-events/visual-arts/" target="_blank">Castlemaine State Festival 2015</a>. <span style="text-align: center;">If you happen to be in the area, come to our opening party on the 17th March, invite below. </span></div>
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For the exhibition I've been enjoying experimenting with finer-than-thread metallic yarns, degumming and spinning wild silk cocoons and getting Victorian silk spindles made for me as part of my piece. It's always amazing how much you learn from devising and executing any art project. This steep learning curve is the thrill of making art.</div>
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In response to our theme on the Greek Myth about the Three Fates: Namely Clotho, spinner of the thread of life, Lachesis the one who allots the length of that thread, and Atropos who severs the thread; I started to knit cocoons. I was inspired by the Urodid Moth Cocoon which is an amazing piece of natural architecture found in the Amazon - see it <a href="http://blog.perunature.com/2013/06/the-incredible-urodid-moth-cocoon.html" target="_blank">here</a>. My knitted cocoons attempt to take the form of this beautiful cocoon. They are knit on tiny double pointed needles in stainless steel and silk/wool yarns and linen/copper yarns. These fibres have a memory so that they will hold a 3D form, they are super fine and presented a few challenges in the knitting. </div>
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This little one is knit in a superfine copper filament. It's almost invisible in some lighting. </div>
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Enclosed within my knitted cocoons is the real spent cocoon of the Cricula Silk Moth, a wild silk moth cocoon from Indonesia. </div>
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I eventually managed to de-gum these cocoons in order to spin them into silk which was quite a tricky process, not much information available online on degumming wild silk cocoons but I had success with a little tiny bit of caustic soda and washing soda in water. I had a local Master turner make me these wonderful Victorian Silk Spindles which were a pleasure to whirl on. </div>
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The cocoons hang from a flat handstitched circle of pressed Cricula silk cocoons.</div>
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Here I am ironing and stitching these together over the course of a day. The golden cocoons are a wonder to work with and the spun fibres shimmer with natural golden threads.</div>
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And if you're wondering how they take their shape after coming off the knitting needles, there's a little final magic with a balloon which is quite fun to do.</div>
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The show is on until the 23rd of March. Shed 5. Castlemaine Woollen Mills, 1 Walker Street, Castlemaine.</div>
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Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com01 Walker Street, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia-37.0558634 144.2152162-62.577897899999996 102.90662219999999 -11.5338289 -174.47618980000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-71243652371153280202014-07-22T13:24:00.002+01:002014-07-22T13:24:35.480+01:00The Knitted Farmyard, a labour of love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white;">I bought a book called "</span><a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9781844482177?redirected=true&viewCountry=AU&selectCurrency=AUD&gclid=CjwKEAjwl7ieBRCK2rCtqcCS7jESJACZKQFK_a7NQOI-7hYd5xCJvGhE4y3gKUNkVLS4E8-Iz5hNixoCTKfw_wcB" target="_blank">The Knitted Farmyard</a><span style="background-color: white;">" when my first baby was born with the aim of making it for his 1st birthday and it’s only taken me 5 years to get around to making it! I need a deadline so I ended up making it for 2nd baby's 2nd birthday but it’s really for the whole family, including me! I’m not sure who loves playing with it most. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">I added a needlefelted hill with fox den and rabbit hole. The bridge is crochet for extra sturdiness. I also added a tree which i felt was too big so I cut it down and crochet the wood grains as a tree stump. I did this to the end of the tree that I cut down too because sadly my boys do love pretending to cut down trees!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I was a great project to work on with friends and family too, my son and his friends all wanted to help and now we all miss making it. We may have to start on a beach scene next to give the farmers a well earned holiday.</span></div>
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Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-65101749026045866082014-03-24T12:51:00.001+00:002014-04-01T15:18:54.917+01:00How to photograph your work using your phone & the Lightcase<a href="http://www.facebook.com/photolightcase" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2QpMOOWACPTuQdloRArcwLxqL8xYKXU2hKP9q1BzVKmjREYRjo1BpbpPignNtg4C_iKNahydP_ry8RfnkXvgeZgdvnCvnI-9OgWf3jag9xZLqFfkOGHK6ypH2GBT_ybmu0_9D7x6amVU/s1600/Dom_bren_using.png" height="360" width="640" /></a><br />
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Things have been busy here, my partner (tile designer extraordinaire <a href="http://www.crinson.com/" target="_blank">Dominic Crinson</a>) and I have been developing something for designer-makers that is going to make photographing small things super easy. It's called the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photolightcase" target="_blank">Lightcase</a> and we think it is brilliant! We've been working our precious prototype taking it to makers' studios and it's working a treat. It's basically a pop up photo studio, it's portable and low tech but creates a beautifully well lit space for photographing smaller things. It folds down into a nifty A4 folder and comes with three photographic backdrops - frosted, white and black...<br />
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The <a href="http://kck.st/1pxavXv" target="_blank">Lightcase</a> basically came out of a need we both had to take great photos of the things we make for selling and marketing online. We do have a really good Digital SLR but for photographing the little things, getting all that equipment out and setting up a makeshift white backdrop and good lighting all just seemed overkill. We wanted to find a simpler way and so the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photolightcase" target="_blank">Lightcase</a> was born! It's made from Polypropylene and it works so well and it's so durable. I just love the way it pops up into a mini photo studio so you can take it to where ever you have the best light available and quickly document your product from a few different angles and upload to Etsy, Folksy, Made-it or whatever e-marketplace you might be using to sell or promote your work.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">What is great is that you don't even need a huge amount of light, the white material kind of captures the available light and traps it there and your phone camera does the rest! Smartphone cameras are pretty amazing these days and this suits me as I'd rather not get too technical, I just want to get good pics and get back to doing what I love best and that's making.</span><br />
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We're going to launch the concept on Kickstarter on the 1st April 2014 and if we can get it funded we can get the tooling done for the first production run of the Lightcase and get it out there for you all. It's going to be really affordable at about 22 pounds or around 35 US/AUS dollars... So stay tuned and if you like the idea go onto <a href="http://www.facebook.com/photolightcase" target="_blank">Lightcase on facebook</a> and please do share it with anyone you know who could use one too. If you have any feedback at this stage, we'd love to hear your thoughts so leave a comment below.<br />
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Kickstarter Campaign Launch Monday 31st March 2014<br />
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-82759907834513273502014-01-06T11:46:00.002+00:002014-01-06T11:47:53.343+00:00Christmas ordersHappy New Year! Just a little eye candy for my first post for 2014, here are some of the guys I made up for Christmas orders, hopefully they made their way into the stockings of a few good children...<br />
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-19838094315650118172013-12-02T05:51:00.001+00:002014-01-06T11:43:05.119+00:00Foxy SamplesJust a quick post...working on some new patterns, here is my new fox design. This guy stands proud and he's on the run just like the foxes I've always spotted.<br />
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I've also been making samples for a beautiful organic baby shop that I met with last week. These are two first versions of the polar bear and elephant using their gorgeous organic cotton and cashmere/wool blend fabrics... Filled with wool and embroidered with silk thread that I have dyed with rusty iron...</div>
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The blanket scraps were just big enough to make into a skulk of foxes. There is something very foxy about plaid, maybe it's the story book illustrations of foxes dressed in tweed. Anyway I think these guys look pretty dashing...</div>
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Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-88648411862812541242013-10-21T13:31:00.001+01:002013-10-21T13:34:01.318+01:00Reclaiming the NightsGosh, this year has flown by. It's terrible, I haven't posted since my February wet felted chair fiasco for a number of reasons. One being that said chair is like a thorn in my side, sitting there unfinished, slowly un-felting itself and unravelling into a ball of fluff. This was an experiment that needed a little more time than I currently have what with a wild one year old in tow.<br />
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Said one-year-old is the other reason I haven't posted in a while. Above is a portrait of him by the 4 year old and that is the child himself. You can kind of see what I mean can't you.<br />
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So I have reclaimed the nights for creative expression and moved my studio into the living room where I currently work by night after baby is asleep. I'm loving my view from the window which I rarely get to enjoy since it's usually dark out by the time I get to my desk.<br />
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This is a little Christmas needle felted Angel that I've started working on. She hangs by the window and I love how the sunlight glows through the wool and mohair and catches in the gold beaded halo.<br />
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Because Christmas is approaching I've been working on more woolly polar bears. I've started tailoring clothes for the bears too.<br />
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Now this is a curious device that I can't wait to try out. I found it on the shelves of a charity shop in one of my favourite English towns Hebden Bridge, North Yorkshire. It has the original post label on the box which reads "Scotia Wools Ltd, 158 New Bridge Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1. Mrs Gardner, 32 Hodgkin Park Road, Newcastle upon Tyne. Date 10/11/1948. " It has a 9 pence stamp on the box.</div>
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The chair looks surprising good as it is but I would like to create a very durable and smooth felted surface that I can then embellish with other textures. The seat pad I plan to work separately with wet and dry felting and then attach to the seat and felt it in. </div>
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So far I've started by wrapping the covered chair in fibre that I have prefelt with dry felting and wound wool around it to keep it in place and then started the wet soaping felting process. I'm just experimenting at the moment to see what problems might come up. So far it has been difficult keeping the fibres from separating when shrinking and the prefelt has been helping with that. </div>
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After the chair, I intend to felt a small coffee table that I found and a very sweet little foot stool with worn patches of tapestry that I intend to "restore" with needlefelting. Stay tuned. Any tips or suggestions welcome! </div>
Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-21453314628691005892012-12-11T12:47:00.003+00:002012-12-11T12:49:38.249+00:00A spot of dyeingI confess, it's been a while since my last post. So much creating has happened, no less a little baby boy called Emrys being one of the most delightful of them. It's been a busy time with no time for blog posts, but this is something I hope to correct in 2013. Is it too early for resolutions. Christmas hasn't even passed yet.<br />
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Anyway, before the baby wakes here is a spot of dyeing that I did recently on a silk shirt that I chanced upon at the <a href="http://suitcase-rummage.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Melbourne Suitcase Rummage</a>. I finally got those Silver Dollar Eucalyptus leaves to pay out their red orange tones and I love the result.<br />
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It's amazing what a few leaves, a handful of rusty nails, some string and a little water can do. I've run into two of my fellow <a href="http://beautifulsilks.com/" target="_blank">Beautiful Silks</a> <a href="http://www.indiaflint.com/" target="_blank">India Flint</a> workshop companions in the past month in Melbourne and on both occasions we have all by chance been wearing eco-dyed silk garments. Thank you India for your inspiration.</div>
<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-9942328928270830892012-07-16T12:07:00.001+01:002012-07-16T12:19:04.577+01:00Sourdough Crumpets / Blueberry HotcakesThese Sourdough crumpets or hotcakes have been a revelation in our house. They are absolutely divine. Forget pancakes these are so much better! So light and fluffy, yet crunchy and a perfect vehicle for butter and honey, or cheese, or blueberries and bacon and maple syrup New York style.<br />
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For anyone with a sourdough starter I can only say, you must try this! For people without starters, it is so worth starting one just to make these. I have a dedicated jar of sourdough starter just ready for making crumpets whenever we need them.<br />
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Here is the recipe, adapted from <a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-crumpets-recipe" target="_blank">King Arthur Flour</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">1 cup sourdough starter</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">1/2 tsp bicarb soda in a little water</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Heat a good quality fry pan with a little butter and lightly grease your crumpet rings/egg rings or cookie cutter rings and place them on the pan to heat up. If you don't have rings, don't worry, just blob the mix on the pan without rings and they'll be more like hotcakes. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">Just before cooking, add the bicarb water mix and mix into the batter well. Put a dessertspoon full of mix into each ring, cook on a medium to low heat. You need to cook them until they dry out on top and the bubbles burst. Might take up to 10 minutes. Try to use the mix up in one cooking batch as the bicarb will wear off quickly unless you get the batter cooking. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">If you don't have enough rings while you wait for them to cook, just pour the rest of the batter into small fry pan and make one really big crumpet which you can cut into segments and toast. </span><br />
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-59273287720318537742012-07-11T08:41:00.000+01:002012-07-11T08:41:07.703+01:00Postpartum Recovery Pack - Because I'm Worth It!With the birth of our second just around the corner, I wanted to share this postpartum pack that I've put together to help myself to a few different postpartum health and wellbeing traditions from other cultures. In the West new mums are generally given a couple of weeks to get themselves together and are then expected to go on doing whatever it was they were doing before childbirth. Well I'm planning on taking it easy and living it up in the first few weeks!<br />
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This pregnancy I've been reading a wonderful book by Aviva Romm called "Natural Health After Birth - The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness". Based on some of the things I've learned from this book I've put together a pretty beautiful postpartum recovery pack that I think all new mum's should be given. I think it would make the perfect gift for a pregnant friend. The baby gets loads of pressies but the Mum needs all the support she can get...A happy supported mum is a happy healthy baby.<br />
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The pack includes:<br />
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Hot Water Bottle with wool felted cover - ( just an old blanket with a needle felted design on the front). Traditionally heat is used a lot in the postpartum period across many cultures. Romm says "If any single theme from traditional postpartum care emerges from one culture to the next worldwide, it is the importance of keeping the new mother warm....heat usually goes beyond just keeping the ambient temperature warm, but also incorporates techniques for infusing heat deeply into the woman's body specifically for the purpose of facilitating postpartum healing." Mother Roasting or Fire Rest the practices were sometimes called. Also pictured here is the beautiful Weleda Nursing Tea, and of course nourishing superfoods in the form of raw chocolate by Loving Earth...</div>
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In Chinese traditional medicine Moxabustion was essential, so I have also included Moxa sticks which you can buy at most traditional chinese medicine centres...Use the moxa sticks to treat the area of the body over the sacrum on the back and on the front just above the pubic bone.</div>
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Bathing was another important traditional postpartum treatment. I made up some lovely herbal bath tea bags with Comfrey, Lavender and Calendula. This is a beautiful blend that is uplifting, soothing and healing. You simple boil a bag in a large pot of water, steep covered for 30 mins and pour into a hot bath. You can take the baby in the bath too for it will help heal the umbilical site. You can also use the spent tea bags directly on the perineum to help heal and soothe. Even better add a few drops of Hypericum/calendula homeopathic tincture to the muslin bag before applying to the perineum.</div>
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Nourishing herbs for the postpartum mother include: Motherwort, Shepherds Purse, Dong Quai and Nettle. There are more but these are the ones I chose and I had a naturopath make up a body tonic of these four herbs. </div>
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Nettle is used for enriching and enhancing breast-milk production while providing optimal nutrients and energy for the mother. Motherwort is a bitter herb that helps reduce tension in new mothers and is used for strengthening the cardiovascular system. It is excellent for reducing nervous heart palpitations and anxiety and it is a uterine tonic which can help return the uterus to its nonpregnant size and allay cramps. Shepherds Purse helps to reduce postpartum bleeding and Dong Quai is a Chinese tonic herb that helps relax the uterine muscles and manage uterine cramping among many other things...</div>
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Massage is another important postpartum practice, in Malawi the midwives were noted to use their head on the abdomen on the mother and massage upwards to help return the uterus to its non pregnant position. Weleda's Arnica massage oil is gorgeous and slightly warming and arnica is brilliant for helping that feeling like you've just been hit by a bus. </div>
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Did I mention Chocolate? What postpartum healing pack would be complete without a selection of raw chocolate bars by Loving Earth. Chocolate releases endorphins and is stimulating and has so many health benefits I can't possibly list them all here!</div>
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So there you have it. I hope someone will see this and be inspired to make themselves or a loved one a similar postpartum pack because I think it would be the best gift you can give yourself or a new mother close to you.</div>
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-54558027493303626002012-07-10T11:38:00.000+01:002012-07-10T11:38:45.320+01:00Making Hand Dipped Beeswax CandlesWell, trying to anyway... I've always wanted to make my own hand dipped beeswax candles. Being due any day now I also envisaged birthing at home in the light beeswax candles that I'd made myself. A bit of a romantic notion and instead of lovely long tapered candles I ended up with three potted candles from beeswax that we collected from around some hives one weekend.<br />
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Around the hives at Heidi gallery in Heidelberg, Melbourne, we found some curious lumps of beeswax in the grass, some was really black. It smelt gorgeous and so we collected it up to see it we could make something of it.<br />
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I'd read that it was important to purify the wax before you melt it down to remove debris and other bits you might not want to burn and breathe. You do this by boiling the wax in a muslin bag so the wax floats to the surface and then repeating the process with finer mesh bags until your wax is lovely and clean. </div>
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Then you can begin the tedious process of dipping the wicks. I must admit this is where it all went horribly wrong. Because I had such a small tin can I could only dip the wick in a little bit. I ended up with candles that looked a little like this...</div>
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-23904563589553004132012-07-07T09:27:00.000+01:002012-07-07T09:28:13.249+01:00More darning at the markets and a bit about nestingThis morning was too nice a day to pass up one last day at the markets before baby... Just wanted to share a few pics from the market. I had another darning client whose favourite little knitted jumper had a huge hole at the elbow. I love the way it turned out and am considering just doing this to unholy jumpers just for the sake of it!<br />
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... one more bonnet for baby. This one will be the perfect fit from birth, it's one of Elizabeth Zimmerman's patterns, it's called the Maltese Fisherman's Hat from the Knitter's Almanac. I added an attached icord around the front which really finishes off the pattern nicely I thought. </div>
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Today it has been raining all day and lately we've all had a bit of a taste for crumpets since it's winter so I decided to try the homemade variety. </div>
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I didn't have the traditional circular crumpet rings so we ended up with crumpets in the shape of Australia, a koala and hearts. </div>
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To go with this very Aussie afternoon tea we had Native Roasted Wattleseed Tea (delicious!) and lashings of butter and Aussie bush honey. All very comforting on a cold wet Melbourne afternoon. </div>
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-49173188879244152722012-06-26T11:43:00.000+01:002012-06-26T11:45:24.550+01:00Knitting for BabyI haven't been able to post as much as I'd like to because I just haven't been able to put down the knitting and sewing needles long enough. Our new baby is due in about three weeks and I've built up an adorable collection of baby knits that I've been dying to share with you all.<br />
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I'm especially in love with the patterns by Elizabeth Zimmerman who is just such a genius and writes patterns in such a casual way that you end up having to use your own nut and invariably learn a whole lot along the way. Great for relatively new knitters like me.<br />
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Can one baby have too many booties? In my quest to find the perfect bootie pattern I ended up trying five different patterns. My favourite is definitely the <a href="http://www.purlbee.com/the-purl-bee/2009/10/28/whits-knits-elizabeth-zimmermanns-baby-booties.html" target="_blank">Elizabeth Zimmerman Bootees</a> pattern from "The Opinionated Knitter"<br />
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Second favourite knitted booties pattern is the <a href="http://www.purlbee.com/baby-bootie-moccasins/" target="_blank">Purl Soho Baby Moccasins</a> pattern. I added little needle felted dots to them like I have been doing to everything of late...<br />
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I found these two top down cardigan patterns a lot of fun to knit. The first is <a href="http://www.pickles.no/babykit-for-melker/" target="_blank">The Babykit for Melker by Pickles</a>. I loved their colour choice and so did the same. It turned out to be the perfect size for a newborn and can't wait to dress the little dumpling in it!<br />
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Second cardigan is the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-sweater-on-two-needles-february" target="_blank">Baby Sweater on Two Needles by Elizabeth Zimmerman</a> in her brilliant Knitters Almanac. It has a little ceramic button that my partner made so it has a bit of him in it too which is nice.<br />
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What baby can be without a beautifully soft baby alpaca bonnet? This was such a fun pattern and quite ingenious too I thought. It's the <a href="http://www.purlbee.com/baby-bonnet/" target="_blank">Purl Soho Baby Bonnet</a>. So adorable and so lovely and soft in Eki Riva Baby Alpaca (again!)</div>
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I'm quite proud of this little wool playsuit which is my take on the <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/baby-leggings-february" target="_blank">Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Leggings pattern again from the Knitter's Almanac</a>.<br />
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I found the rise in the crotch way too long even from a fully cloth nappied baby bottom so I cut through my knitting, salvaged the yarn and added the stitches back on the needle to continue knitting upwards. I added a long rib top and continued up the back, splitting the stitches into two straps that have three button adjustments so hopefully these will last baby a couple of seasons.</div>
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Well thank you for indulging me and my baby knit obsession. I can put it down to a combination of hormones, nesting instinct and a little bit of anxiety that I may not be able to pick up the needles as much as I may want to in the first few weeks/months of baby II's arrival. With three weeks to go, I may even add to the collection, I'll keep you posted.</div>
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-27335208835200799632012-05-08T12:48:00.000+01:002012-05-09T12:54:21.749+01:00Needle felted darningI came across a great idea for darning holes via a wonderful dutch designer <a href="http://www.woolfiller.com/wolplamuur.nl/index.php?lg=en&" target="_blank">Heleen Klopper </a>and I've been actively seeking out holy woolly garments to mend ever since. You can buy her packs of wool tops and needles from the totally brilliant <a href="http://thirddrawerdown.com/" target="_blank">Third Draw Down</a> design shop in Fitzroy, Melbourne. However since my house is brimming with the fluffy stuff I have been darning to my hearts content.<br />
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This is a little woollen top that I have had since I was about 12 years old, I still remember the shopping trip with my mum to buy it. I've almost worn it to death and the moths have tried to consume it over the years but I've managed to save it from the scrap heap. It's felted over the years and too small for me now but I might cut it up and make a little kids waistcoat with it, we'll see.<br />
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I like the random placement of holes, if I was embellishing it purposefully I don't think I could have come up with this pattern. There are about 32 moth holes in this. Someone's had a feast.</div>
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Here is another. I felted this old jumper, darned it and cut it up to make this little waistcoat for a 2-5 year old.<br />
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<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-6208891141476763382012-04-30T13:46:00.001+01:002012-05-08T12:50:55.374+01:00I'm backWell finally the dust is settling. We have made our move to Melbourne and things are starting to find a bit of rhythm. We're expecting a new baby in July, have set up a lovely new home and have begun tapping into the creative Melbourne scene. There has been much making since my last post and I hope to find the time to post a little more regularly.<br />
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I have a new Melbourne business selling some beautiful organic Merino wool clothing from Germany alongside my handmade woolly items for babies and children. <a href="http://www.woollykins.com.au/">http://www.woollykins.com.au</a><br />
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I just love Disana clothing, they are such a wonderfully ethical company with affordable and totally natural and colourful clothing for children, I simply had to bring it to Australia because I couldn't find anything so adorable here.<br />
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It's getting cold here in Melbourne and so I've been making some additional woolly pieces for children out of some wonderful offcuts of Welsh woven wool blankets. They are small pieces but just enough for a cute but smart and warm waistcoat for a little one.<br />
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My winter toddler pantaloons are made from some beautiful 100% worsted wool suiting fabric that I picked up at a London carboot sale on a recent visit back to the UK. I just wish I had more time, I'd make pantaloons all day long, they are so popular on <a href="http://cobbledtogether.etsy.com/" target="_blank">Etsy</a>.<br />
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Since we're expecting a new winter baby in July there has been a bit of baby knitting going on of late so I'll post some photos of these too soon. Who doesn't love miniature knitwear!<br />
<br />Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-19275762917447834942011-09-04T23:06:00.002+01:002011-09-04T23:22:37.026+01:00Eco Dyeing NormandyOn a recent trip to Normandy we did a little natural dyeing, <a href="http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Eco-Colour-India-Flint/9781741960792">Eco-Colour style</a> with locally sourced fabric, water, rust and plant matter. Not having yet got my hands on India Flint's beautiful book, we just experimented with the little knowledge I have picked up from the very inspiring and rapidly growing fan base of this wonderful and exhilarating method.<br />
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Being in quite idyllic surroundings in a sleepy village surrounded by flax fields called Malleville-les-Grés in Normandy, we couldn't help but photograph our experiments. Here's the (little) method in our madness...<br />
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Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-3490177803294824982011-08-23T23:10:00.001+01:002011-08-23T23:12:20.734+01:00TexturesJust catching up on some of my favourite artist's blogs (<a href="http://sophiemunns.blogspot.com/">Sophie Munns</a> & <a href="http://kathrynclark.blogspot.com/">Kathryn Clark</a>) and was really taken with the beautiful painterly quality of these two works that were brought to my attention.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">white rag quilt by Barbara Wisnoski</td></tr>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">This beautiful pieced quilt by <a href="http://www.barbarawisnoski.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=16&lang=en">Barbara Wisnoski</a> is made up of hundreds of tiny fragments sewn together in a method she describes as "Happily freed from precision, this is cutting and sewing as mantra, as pure, riotous activity." This idea is incredibly comforting, to be freed from precision, from the fear that everything must be precise to be of value, to put aside doubt and just be present in the doing. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Barbara's work has also really validated my inability to throw away even the tiniest piece of fabric.</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">07-D122 by Chun Kwang Young</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div>The other artist I came across was a Korean artist <a href="http://www.chunkwangyoung.com/artwork_detail.asp?id=93&category_cd=C016&cat_lev=1">Chun Kwang Young</a> who wraps tiny blocks of foam in mulberry paper and creates these incredibly intricate works that resemble by their micro geometry a kind of 3D matrix over a landscape. I find a lot of similarity in their works and their methodology. I love the way they have built up of layers in an informal grid to create such a beautifully ornate yet, from a distance, visually simple aerial landscape.</div>Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-38973480843392815022011-08-18T15:08:00.001+01:002011-08-19T21:03:18.421+01:00Eco-printing linen with copper coinsI tried my hand at a bit of dyeing/eco-printing inspired by <a href="http://prophet-of-bloom.blogspot.com/">India Flint</a>'s bundle technique where you tightly wrap found plant matter or objects in fabric and soak/heat to transfer the colour on to the fabric (a slightly simplistic description I'm afraid!) My first attempt was using a jar of copper coins that I had to hand in an attempt to create a more regular design on some pieces of an old linen sheet that I had left over from another project. Here are the results which I pieced together to make into a top to wear because I was quite in love with the fabric.<br />
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Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-87004607247569112102011-07-25T21:26:00.000+01:002011-07-25T21:26:12.797+01:00Bendy man for toddler playMy little one needed a little bendy figure that could drive his cars, ride horses and the like and while I had a creative friend staying last week we made some cute little dolls. They started out as simple wire framed things but soon, as often happens with us, became quite involved little guys, felted, painted and clothed. Here are some photos.<br />
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First we used white <a href="http://www.milliput.com/home.htm">Milliput</a> to make heads, hands and feet with flat soles, these we left to dry whilst we went to <a href="http://www.hackneycityfarm.co.uk/">Hackney City Farm</a> for some play. Then we made little wire frame stick men out of pipe cleaners and wrapped them with strips of carded wool from the seaweed eating sheep in <a href="http://www.visitorkney.com/northronaldsay/index.asp">North Ronaldsay</a>, that I collected in Orkney (that I still haven't done anything with!). Then we felted them by rubbing them with washing liquid and hot water until the body was firm and made little outfits out of scraps of linen fabric. I had a tiny scrap of beautiful Japanese silk left that I used to make a hat which really made him characterful. A nice little project to use up the ends of other projects.<br />
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I'm so loving "World Textiles" the latest issue of <a href="http://handeyemagazine.com/">Hand/Eye magazine</a>. It just makes me want to up sticks and go on my own around the world textiles journey...Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-615804038656828739.post-52996849881223414082011-07-09T21:16:00.007+01:002011-07-25T20:57:48.483+01:00Broadway Market Saturdays from 9th July onwards and upwardsWe had a really good first day selling our handmade children's clothes and gifts at Hackney's <a href="http://www.broadwaymarket.co.uk/market.php">Broadway Market </a>yesterday. So we'll be there every saturday for the foreseeable future and it's inspiring to talk to customers and get feedback. Here's our stall. The dolls are made by the lovely girls at <a href="http://www.dalstondolls.co.uk/www.dalstondolls.co.uk/home.html">Dalston Dolls</a>, who I did the <a href="http://cobbledtogetherbybrenna.blogspot.com/2011/03/doll-making-day-1.html">Steiner doll making workshop</a> with.<br />
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By the way, I have been loving listening to these incredible <a href="http://www.maiwa.com/documentaries/podcasts.html">postcasts by Maiwa called Voices on Cloth</a>. I'm day dreaming whilst sewing up a storm for my market stall in the school yard at <a href="http://www.broadwaymarket.co.uk/market.php">Broadway Market</a> tomorrow.Brennahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01028923791987338206noreply@blogger.com4