Cardigan heartification and a mini giveaway

Munchkin is still growing, despite developing a recent fussy attitude to food (oh the joys of toddlerhood), and so I decided to customise the other cheapy cardigan I bought when our local Ethel Austin was closing down (the other smaller one is here).


As the stamped applique flowers worked so well last time, I thought I'd try some more using the same technique. I chose hearts, because the stamps were about the right size, and the spotty one is my favourite. I rooted around in my scraps bag and found some t-shirt sleeves that I cut off in a fit of cutomization - the colour was perfect.



I love the results :) I had lots of t-shirt sleeve left over, so I made a whole load more applique patches. One set is in my Coriandr shop, and the other set could be yours, all yours! To get your grubby little mitts on four patches (two stripy hearts and two spotty hearts) just leave a comment at the end of this post telling me how you'd use them if you won them. I'll select a winner at random on Monday. International peeps, you can enter too.



They come with Bondaweb already on the back, so you can iron them on to whatever you want to, or iron then sew them on if they're going on a piece of clothing. They're washable at 40 degrees. Perfect for all sorts of things!

Tweet-tastic

Hellooo! Just popping in and out again, as things are tres busy in the world of the pickledweasels. We've been away for a few days to see the lovely baby Juliet, and we have weekend plans too as it's my birthday on Saturday.

But I thought I'd just blow my own trumpet a bit. Looooook! My birdy flower brooch has been featured on the Coriandr Blog :) And it's on the Coriandr Front Page (scroll down a bit to the bottom of the page). I'm well chuffed.

And I've just added a new brooch to my shop, a little rainbow cat on a wooden heart. This has been my bestseller at craft fairs (Grandma pickledweasel very kindly takes a board of my jewellery along with her when she has a stall anywhere), so I'm hoping they'll prove as popular online :)

Shiny New Things

Look! Little treasures now listed in my shop.

A froggy tissue cozy - this is pretty much a one off as I only had a teeny piece of this stripy green fabric. Shame!

Some sweet little wooden brooches.

These were a big hit at the craft fair grandma pickledweasel did last weekend, so much so that she's agreed to take them along to all the other fairs she's doing in the run up to Christmas. Hurrah!

Tiny little heart

Knitted from lovely purpley pinky wire, this is teeny. It measures 2cm across at its widest point.

It's too small to be a brooch, and I don't have the findings to make it a necklace, so I've given it to grandma pickledweasel to experiment with. She has a glass kiln, and so she's going to try and embed it into glass. I'll post the results after she next does a firing!