A Japanese Session

On Wednesday our little sewing group met up, the lady who was hosting this time had just come back from a tip to Japan

So set us a little Japanese  project to try with some supplies she brought back.

Sasiko stitching it was what the Japanese used to use for decorative mending stitching.

She had lots of lovely bits to show us from her trip

there are seven of us in the group, Jennie couldn't make today as she was at her quilting group and Julia was away visiting family.

December I was hosting and we did lampshade making

Jennie made hers from some Japanese fabric she patch worked together, Sian was also on a Japanese theme with some Kimono fabric, Sue made some 3d cherry blossom to decorate hers

I did a christmas winter scene for my one, 

 January Sian was hosting and we did some decorated candles using there different techniques

 Its a lovely group and we have been meeting up for just over two years now, taking turn about hosting. 

Next month we are dabbling in weaving.

 

 

A New Craft For Me

The other evening I caught Make Craft Britain on BBC4 its a one off program, shame as it was really good.

It followed two diffrent groups that attended workshops.

One was doing paper art cutting, something I have done before and run workshops on. 

The other group were doing lampshades a craft I have always fancied having a go at.

They did freehand applique on there lampshades but it gave me an idea.

I ordered a kit from Amazon

 

Dug out some shot silk fabric from my stash 

I had an image in mind.

I used the  lampshade liner as template to mark on my fabric were the image was to go.

Stitched it out

Followed the instructions for the assembly of the lamp shade

It was easy to do and took about an hour start to finish.

Really really pleased with it, the lamp base was made for me by my father in law, this shade is a bit small for this lamp, I am going to make another shade the same, put them in the guest room and make another shade for this lamp.