Bookbinding

I'm lucky to be surrounded by creative people and so when the lovely Judy invited me for a day of bookbinding it became a date I looked forward to...

She talked me through all the bits you need.

And soon we were cracking on with a pamphlet style book.

Using the bone folder to make our folds super crisp.

Neatening up the edges.

Choosing the cover - paper made by Jude!

Folding and cutting corners

Choosing some coloured thread to bind it all together.

Adding the finishing touches - a title indent!

Some bubbles and the log burner and plenty of chat made it the most perfect way to spend a wintery Saturday!

Dometic Patchwork

This is clearly not the most exciting patchwork project I've done but much needed. Our ironing board cover had all but disintegrated and so I decided to recover using a picture I'd seen of vintage board covers as my inspiration.

It was a great wy to use up a lot of small scraps. I used mainly green fabrics to go with my newly painted wall you can just glimpse!

Stop Motion

Not exactly a crafty make from me but still creative! I wanted to share our wonderful attempt at making a stop motion film using the Stop Motion app.

Finn was 4 when we started making films and soon grasped the easy to use interface and it wasn't long until he ditched me as a co-creator and went solo as Director / screen-writer / cinematographer!

We used toys from the basket and quickly came up with a story line. He understood quickly that small changes and lots of snaps made a better film!

We even added background music and our own sound-effects!

I'd definitely recommend  next rainy day!