Byemmajo’s Weblog
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sorry for the lack of posts and pictures, I have been kinda overwhelmed with orders and working all spare hours in the new studio. I will try and get some pics up! I’m off to oban this friday to take some scarves to a shop who is intertested- and am possibly going to start asking other potential places too.
Hopefull I’ll manage to get the rest of my things in the studio – loom is still wrapped up in the garden awaiting transport and so is the smaller wooden one inside and also my grandfathers stand which I use to sit on when weaving.
hooray! New Studio!
At last after 7 years of waiting I’ve got a new studio ! Can’t wait to have most of my stuff out of the house and my loom saved from the garden!!
Not quite sure how I’m going to afford it but I’ll just have to chase those potential commissions! ( I have a few) tapestry portaits in the potential pipe line!
Any way I’d better get on…
just desperate to tell you!
how to chart a design to cross stitch?
please could someone tell me how to chart a design for cross stitch embroidery…could you let me know where to find a how to? I’ve been looking but seem to only find designs….
craft fair work
been working like a mad woman for this fair, did it yesterday and sold 3 scarves ,3 waist coats and no booties even though everyone picked them up and said “oh how cute!”
also a picture there of some fabric I got from a charity shop, white and silver, think I’m going to put it on a black scarf.
Really want to do some weaving soon getting a hankering for it! So today I uploaded the bootees I didn’t sell to my etsy shop.
what I’ve been up too!
apart from looking after tootsie…I’ve been grabbing time to knit these for sale… have a look in my etsy shop byemmajo.etsy.com
I’ve also been given a lot of fabric for using on scarves which is great so I’ve been cutting like mad to get resady to sew and get ready for a craft fair on the 21st!!
One of each colourway I’ve done! many more colourways to do my wool stock is pretty amazing!
what I’ve been up to!
Sorry about the silence i’ve been up to my eyes with teaching ,flu, birthdays, all hectic but not all bad! I’ve been knitting a wee bit too…amazingly I knitted a pair of bootees and was just sewing them up when a lady asked if she could buy them! So I sold them straight away! Wonders will never cease!
Here is a pair in a different colourway but my original ones were bright green with purple shiny spots!
What do you think?
tootsies self portrait
I left tootsi for 5 mins in studio and out of about 35 photos she took I quite liked these!
happy new year when it comes!
everyone is stocking up for the festivities.
.me? no i’m looking forward to a quiet evening and start the new year afresh! (tommorropw – hogmanay) I’ll be tidying up after christmas to start the new year more organised – at least a bit! thats my new year resolution! I’ve got big descisions to make in 2009 – whether to invest more in the scarf and waitcoats or concentrate on my handwoven portraits…..bit of a conumdrum going on in my head!
Any way have a good one and I’ll see you in the new year!
Birthday present
Its my nephew Lyles birthday in a few days and I got him one of these as part of it , great aren’t they?
I will get him some toy cars as well as he’ll only be 5 and may not appreciate the finer things in life like golden syrup!
lots of interest in these!
Wow! my waistcoats are going like CRAZY! I had a fantastic day at the made in the shade craft fair yesterday at the light house.
Here’s some pics!
All these waistcoats are available at my shop www.jemmajo.etsy.com
Also sold a lot of scarves which was good!
Downstairs tootsie is putting up the tree with daddy.
