Rumours from the Crafty Forest....

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In the mail today

 

The Stitches of Creative Embroidery by Jacqueline Enthoven. This book was recommended to me by Ann Mary who made such a lovely version of the Princes and the Pea embroidery recently. I've put it on my little embroidery table to try out some new stitches soon. The book looks a bit outdated on the inside, it was published in the sixties and it looks like it too, but there are so many lovely stitches to learn from this book that I don't mind that too much. This new Embroidery book by Jenny Hart (on my wishlist) will make up for any lack of cool on my bookshelf!

For any of you left handed stitchers out there: my new embroidery book says to 'turn stitch diagrams upside down and follow the letters'.

New Alice Pattern is here!

Yay! My new Alice pattern is in the shop as of today. Julia Frickert (aka JulieFrick on Flickr) did a great job of test-driving the pattern. I especially like the slightly freaky Blue Caterpillar! Remember I will send you a cute free pattern with each purchase! :)

Sunday stash # 15 Ribbons & trims

 

Here are a few ribbons from my stash. Among them are the ribbons I bought last week when I was in the tiny store in Amsterdam with the huge collection of trims, tassels etc. I also received a couple of extremely cute ribbons in swaps. I rarely use ribbons when I sew. Partly because I'm not sure what to do with them and also because I find it hard to part with some of them and would rather keep them safely in their glass jars. :) 

What do you use your ribbons and trims for?

Messy work space

 

So, here it is. My messy workspace. I love having my own place in the house to keep my stuff in and just leave it untidy like that until I have time to return to whatever I was doing. I was just working on the Blackbirds tail feathers when the doorbell rang yesterday. Hopefully I'll be able to finish it later today. After I've done grocery shopping, a ton of washing and ironing and lots of other Saturday 'musts'.

Have you all noticed that I changed the name of this Blog? I've also changed my Flickr name. I feel a bit sad about leaving Polka Dot Bunny behind (guilty even), but I noticed that all the different names I was using was confusing for a lot of people so I chose to go with Follow the White Bunny.

Amsterdam

Today I traveled to a wet and windy Amsterdam with my dear friend Caroline. We were planning on doing some shopping for clothes in one of our favourite shops. We tried on lots of lovely dresses, skirts and cardigans. It was so hard to choose that it took us about 2 hours until we were happy with our choices. 

This cute dress is one of the items I bought. :) 

We also visited the Kitsch Kitchen shop were I found two lovely pieces of oilcloth (red w/white dots and a flower print) in the bargain bin and bought some kitschy but cute cards. We also found time to visit a lovely litlle shop which sold an enormous variety of ribbons, lace, trims and tassels (see the photos). Of course I couldn't leave that shop emptyhanded and bought 3 different woven ribbons with cute animals on. :)  Our last stop before hopping on the train again, was Waterstone's a bookstore where they solely sell English Books. 

On the photo above I was posing on one of the many bridges over the Amsterdam canals.

In the Octopus' Garden....

Is the new name of my Sea Creature Pattern! Thank you all for all your suggestions it was so much fun to read them all. I'm going to do this more often I think! Anyway, I'll be mailing the pattern to Tanya today. Congratulations!
For those who don't know : The Octopus' Garden is a song by the Beatles. The song itself is not that great (maybe it's just Ringo Starr's singing that is annoying me) but it has really sweet lyrics. It was also the name of the Kindergarten Assembly that my daughter did 3 years ago, she played a starfish. :) Thank you Tanya for suggesting this name!