etsy shop!!!

Well I'm very excited! I've finally got round to setting up my etsy shop... currently selling my rude word pendants but i'll be adding to it over the next few months

http://www.etsy.com/shop/curiousyellowmonkey

pretty rude words

Just a quick update... I've started making pendants with miniature cross stitch in, so far I've done some rather rude words in a pretty baby pink (most of which sold fairly quickly) but I am happy to take orders (max 4 letter words or small pictures) - £10 each x

blackwork

and finally I have spent the first 2 months of this year organising an exhibition of textile artwork at Bank St Arts in Sheffield, my contribution is two pieces of hand embroidery using a Renaissance technique called blackwork:

more cuddly tower blocks

and then i spent christmas making more cuddly tower blocks, this resulted in a fun filled photo shoot to create an ikea style booklet to go with the sculptures. Oh, and the titles refer to the length of time each one took to make.

map quilts and cuddly tower blocks

and then I spent a few months making a quilt based on a map of a local council estate and a cuddly council flat tower block:

I'm back!

Hello! Sorry I've been away for so long, I've been so very busy making lovely things that I kept forgetting to update this. Anyway, here are some brief samples of what I've been up to. Firstly, I finally got the lightboxes made up:

yarnbombing: corporation nightclub, sheffield, summer 2010

Finally! the fence weaving yarnbomb that i attempted earlier this summer... please excuse the wobbly camera work, i've never made an animation before and we didn't have a tripod for the camera.