It’s the most wonderful time of the crafting year! Crafternoons have been on a hiatus for a while between work travel and sewing-sewing, so it was well overdue for a reunion.
And that’s how I came to have all these lovely ladies in my house with snacks, fabric, glue, snacks and more snacks!
We made ornaments and trees using a papier-mache technique but with fabric instead (tissu-mache?!). Here’s my dotty number:
Katy displayed her superior skills with a perfectly crafted diamond pendant
While Anna made a Christmas tree which bore an uncanny resemblance to Will Ferrell’s hat in Elf
Emily put together a rather fancy Christmas tree, and here’s Nina showing off her seasonal bike sign ornament, a reminder of our awesome Asia bike trip
Hurray for crafty ladies! It was a delight as always, and here’s to more in 2015.
Looks like great fun! Wish I could find the crafty women in my neck of the woods. Trying to strike up a conversation with someone at JoAnn is like pulling teeth here. Love your dotty star!!!
You should definitely try to find some! To be honest, most of the crafternoon friends don’t usually do crafts, but throw some fabric and glue in front of people and most of them will dig in 🙂
Oh, your post brought back memories. Not of making fabricmache decorations (which look great, I particularly like the bike one), but making and colouring 3D shapes with my friends instead of revising (quick explanation, I was studying maths and had to know the rotational symmetry groups of a tetrahedrom (triangular based pyramid) and a cube, so it started out on track). There was this great series of books in the Manchester Museum gift shop http://tarquingroup.com/product.php?SKU_Code=422. I ended up with a whole load of coloured polygons dangling from the ceiling of my room for years after. Thank you for the memories.
How fun! And advanced!