Dancing Dervish and Lovely Lailah came over last night for tea and crafts – they have a favourite friend in Denmark they are missing, so we decided to send her a packet of crafty goodness, and as Lailah is an acknowledged queen of bunting, and DD needs to learn to make bunting for new nevvy, the race was on. How much bunting can you make in a few hours, if you pool skills and stash? I dragged out cloth, ribbons and embellishers and sat at the sewing machine as they cut templates, chose fabrics and trimmed ends. Gradually the pile of plain triangles became brave pennants and more and more embellishing materials spilled across the floor. Pumpkin soup and onion and seedy bagels had set us up, but coffee and chocolate were called into play, with music, chat and laughter carrying us through…

There are some dyed mother of pearl bracelets in the £shops at the mo’ and they make ready drilled embellishers (drilling holes in shells is much harder then you’d think!) and of course my stash is full of ribbon and yarn and lace, but I also dug out some UFOs from some 6 years ago and used them (happy feet!) and some leftovers from the kimono. Lai made a really pretty leaf collage and some lovely spirals, DD made a collage including clothes pegs!

with a slight mishap – we decided her leggings were not a suitable embellishment and cut her free, fear not, no bunting was hurt in the course of that exercise, tho’ we all had tummy ache from laughing so much ;)

Lai got to pick up her festival top but I forgot to get a picture of her in it. I guessed it nearly right, tho’ I made her straps a little wide she was so happy with the teal and orange that allowances were easily made :)

It was such a lovely evening that I’ve decided to get a craft group going again. I’m talking to the Women’s Centre in Nottingham about it, partly to make squares for the International Women’s Day component of the Memory Squares Project, but hopefully to draw women crafters together in a nice cheap venue – bringing a flask would be fine. If you are interested in a Second Saturday or Third Thursday monthly bring-your-own knit and natter/craft and connect group, probably 12-3pm, let me know in comments and I’ll keep you posted on progress – also alternative venues that are wheelchair and poor friendly, crowded cafes are a bit challenging for some of us.

Oh yes, that is pompom wool as danglers, I knew I was right to buy it when I saw it, thank you Lidl!

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