Late wonkiness

So it's midnight (waaaay past my bedtime, these days), and I'm out of staples and have lost the will to live. I wonder if upholsterers, as part of their training, have to do a test where they have to cram as many nails as they can into a tiny piece of wood.

It's wonky, I know, but it's still comfy and, seeing as I'm making it up as I go along, it's not too bad. Time to sleep now, though.

Say hello

...to the first ever piece of clothing made of yarn, started and finished by me, which is also wearable! I'm kinda pleased with it. It was really quick to do (key to the aforementioned finishing bit), and finally made me use up the Debbie Bliss Maya stacks of yarn I bought quite a while ago (when it was cheap[er than before...] because it had been discontinued by that time.) I kinda started from this pattern, but changed it round a bit.

Also, the fabric has arrived. And it's true, it's not purple. It's like, nothing like purple. It's got a funny colour which I know has a name, but I can't think of it. It may be platinum.



The back is really quite yellow/ pale bright gold, if that makes any sense. I do like it, though. It shall be used to cover the chair, and it shall be sat upon for eternity. Lets just hope there's enough. I guess the reason it was cheap were the faults in part of it, so I'll have to see how much I can salvage.

OH! HELLO! Almost forgot... (That self-promotion thing is something I gotta work on....) The exhibition (remember?). Well, it starts today and will be on until 11 July, so come check it out!



And here's some doodles from last week - cards for various friends' happenings.

Hot bread, I love you so

I used to make my own bread and, for a while, I had quite the little sourdough factory goin'. But then I couldn't be arsed anymore, particularly as I could never get the right floofyness, and crusts just didn't appear. Recently I wanted to try again, though, and then I came across this recipe, which sounded good.



Floofy? Yay! Crusty? Hooray! No knead? Indeed!

It is by far the easiest and floofiest and crustiest loaf I ever made. Thank you, Bryanna Clark Grogan, you are my undisputed hero of the vegan kitchen! I halved the recipe again, as there's no space in my fridge for three loaves worth of dough, and I used linseed oil, having run out of any other kind of oil. Next time (and yes, there *will* be a next time), I would maybe slightly reduce the water (just by half a cup or so), as the dough was very wet. I'll also try and incorporate sourdough in it somehow. It must be possible!

By the time it was done, I was pretty hungry, so I ended up eating it hot, which is one of those things your mother warns you about, of course. It was delicious, though, and I regret nothing.

On the chair front, the trip to IKEA was completely for nothing! What a disappointment! IKEA fabrics may be cheap, but they look nicer online than they do in person. Schade. So now I'm waiting for my mum to send this one,



which my gran picked up at a sale for €2.50 per meter! I'm still a bit dubious, as I haven't seen it in person yet. It's a bit posher than I'd planned, and it looks purple, which I like, but according to my mum it's not purple. So, I'm waiting with bated breath for the mystery colour of the fabric to be revealed. Royal Mail, hurry up! None of that "you're in, but we'll just tell you you weren't" nonsense this time!

Finally, I suddenly realised that I'd forgotten to brag about this one.



The apple was initially supposed to be a strawberry, but well. I'm kinda flexible on the fruit side of things.

No, not the chair again!

I got a new cushion for it today. It was really quite pricey for a piece of foam. It is very comfy. I don't know if a better solution could have been found.

But really, enough of that. Have some chicken.



A friend of mine just got a new job, and one of the first problems posed to her was procuring a chicken. Naturally, being a bit of a chicken-making pro, I offered to make one. Not sure they'll actually use it (it's for a window display), but I quite like it. I mainly used white corduroy and some cream coloured upholstery fabric with a dot pattern, plus some lace and felt. I put rice in the bottom, to make it more stable, and filled the top half and neck/head with styrofoam beads. That's it.

Chair news

The chair. I cannot get over the luckiness of it all. I got me a heavy duty stapler and went to work - First I stapled in some webbing (bit wonky, I know....), so now you can sit in it. Nils has already done a lot of lounging in it. I also decided to sand the legs, and they're almost done. I'll re-varnish them, but the old varnish had worn off and was scratched in a few places. The wood looks so beautiful freshly sanded...



I also went to John Lewis and fell utterly in love with completely the wrong fabric (in red). It's so lovely and so not suitable for upholstery! It's also £14 a metre, so not cheap enough to make mistakes with, really. A trip to IKEA has already been planned, and I'm tempted by the red flowery one of these. We'll see. IKEA prices are definitely much friendlier than other places'.

In other news, after my last post, I made a strawberry for the mobile I was on about. But now I need to get thinner sewing machine needles, as I've only got huge ones that mangle thin fabrics. And obviously I can't possibly sew anything by hand. That would just be ridiculous.

That last market, btw, was sadly a bit of a waste of time. Although having said that, I sold *all* of the notecard sets. Just not much else... Hopefully the next one will be better.