Bonnets on for Easter!

Eva's playschool requested that today she attended wearing an Easter Bonnet, preferably one that I have helped her to make. So here's what we did:


First we dug out from the bottom of the dressing up box her old straw hat...

and had fund painting some coloured pieces of card.

 Then I cut some cream felt and pink fabric for some ears, I also added a layer of pelmet vilene sandwiched in the middle to add some structure to the ears. I stitched around the pink layer with two layers of running stitch.

Eva then cut out the eggs and chicks from the painted papers and added detail (her word - from Mr Maker apparently) with a fine liner pen and I stitched some yellow strips of paper around the brim for the nest and stuck on the decorations. I stitched the ears on with the sewing machine.

Last night once we had attached the under chin elastic, she was very excited! Throwing out my favoured theory of less is more I also stuck on some decorated eggs that Eva made at playschool and some small furry chicks, after she went to bed.

However in the light of day, is this the saddest girl ever to wear an Easter Bonnet?! I am sure she'll cheer up when she finds her chocolate eggs. Happy Easter!!

Multifaith calendar

I am very excited about the nothonthhighstreet Make Awards, this Wednesday. I have bought some new sandals to wear so I hope it doesn't rain too much!

A month or so ago I posted some icons that I had designed for a multifaith calendar I have been working on for 2013. The last post just showed the little icons and these were the starting point for the scheme. I thought you might like to see the calendar in it's entirety now it is finished:

This artwork is a sample and dates on the version are intentionally incorrect, so I wouldn't use it as a reference point as it stands, but they are available to buy with the correct dates either as a hi-res pdf download or a printed A1 posted, they can also have your company logo in the bottom yellow panel. Email me for prices.