Students, and Shopping, and Sleeping

Just over a week ago I taught my regular monthly afternoon class at Chertsey Museum.  We repeated an evening session I had done there: deconstructing a t-shirt and making a woven bowl.

One lady decided to have a go at finger crocheting a bowl - looking good R!

I *tried* to copy her, but didn't do so well!

One lady brought back her projects from earlier in the year: A peg bag and her hessian bag

And my shopping from The Village Habadashery arrived!  This was my win from Fiona's Ho HoHo and On We Sew linkie.  I had planned on getting a Kona colour chart, but finally settled fo some Kona fabric instead!

You just know an envelope like this is going to have yummy contents!

 And I love that I dont have to remember what colour I'm using:

And finally for those who were concerned about mum's sleeping arrangements for tonight - I cleared the mess!

Fun in the Sun

I had a great afternoon at Chertsey Museum this afternoon, not many ladies as it's holiday season, but it meant that I could play too!
 
I did a short talk about advent calendars - I'd managed to forget my own samples

But a lovely colleague at school lent me two that I did remember to take, so we looked at lots of different possibilities (thanks Anna)

And then we started to play!  The fabric marbling kit was coming to an end: the chemicals to prepare the fabric and to create the base for the paints to float on have now been used up, so we kept going until the very last piece of prepared fabric was used, then threw the dregs of the paints away, but we've created some fab pieces

  

 I'm not sure that photo collage shows just *how* much fabric we marbled!  This pic shows more of it!

Our next challenge is to make things out of our fabrics! 

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