Posh peg pouches – New handmade designs – by me for 2014!

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Posh peg pouches! New handmade designs for 2014. Each and everyone different.
MY ETSY SHOP Caren’s Canvas and Craft

 

Trying to keep up with WordPress over the last couple of weeks has been hard. I have been SEW busy!!! As a result, I haven’t been able to visit blogs I follow quite as often as I would have liked, for which I apologise.

Over the last weeks, I have been creating new picture designs for my unique posh peg bags/pouches, cutting a mountain of little pieces of felt and hand-stitching them in place. Each and every one I have made (and will make in the future) is different – no two will ever be the same, making them all the more special for the purchasers.

Without even having had time to upload them before now here on WordPress, and only a day up on my Etsy shop, some are already winging their way to washing lines across the UK. It really is a case of ‘‘If you like the one you see – get it quick!’‘ As it won’t ever be reproduced exactly the same again.

It really is peg bag season, a couple of days of warmer winds and some sun seems to have gotten the whole world looking for peg bags! And, I’m very proud of my designer (fully lined and with a little wooden hanger) peg bags and their handmade quality. So well made and unique, they are made to last for you for years (As long as your jealous neighbour doesn’t take a shine to it and sneakily remove it from your line!) My fingers are down to the last layer of skin almost, but I love making them, I just don’t ever want to seem to stop (but that’s me all over – why stop at one?)…as you will see below 🙂

Posh peg pouches/bags 2014 designs

Posh peg pouches/bags 2014 designs

Posh peg pouches/bags 2014 designs

 

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A bored moment filler!

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face from ripped up painting bits or ‘perpetual art’ as my daughter remarked!

Over the holidays I found myself alone one day and thought I might experiment more with the Inktense pencils. Firstly I sketched out some small, (4” x 3”ish) doodles of imaginary countryside scenes with an ink pen, I decided not to ink over the originals, so I scanned them and scaled them up to A4 and printed them off on watercolour paper to play around. All good for quick experimentation though as I had scaled up so had the width of the lines on the drawings, some were now almost a quarter inch wide, not to be put off I carried on playing with the ink pencils just to get a feel of what they were like for blending and bleeding together. after an hour of so I had four wet soggy landscape scenes, so mainly green, blue and a little brown from trees and stone walls. As I sat with a cup of tea watching the contorting and curling failed experiments, I decided there must be something I could do with them – really I think I was just trying to pass more time until my family returned – having finished my brew time I grabbed my hair dryer and gave them a quick blast. A little more dry and curly than before I started ripping them into little bits. By the time my family returned from their day out I was sat sorting small pieces of coloured papers into piles, armed with my PVA glue, a brush and the cardboard back of the watercolour pad raring to go again. A couple more hours resulted in the piece you see above formed from bits of sky, lush green meadows and trees! – I have no idea who it is meant to be it just happened!

Definitely not my best work, but never wanting to throw anything away, the mosaic effect collage is different and I liked my daughter’s description of it having become a piece of perpetual art! It did also fill a bored moment…or two…..even three or four 🙂

Wow!!! Thanks for all the hits :-)

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Didn’t really know what image to put as a thank you for all the hits I have had on my site since I joined WordPress on January 2nd this year, Having just looked at my stats I saw that I have just gone over 10,000 views!!!!! I am overwhelmed 🙂 not only that people have found me but also stayed around and explored and then decided to follow me too. Thank You EVERYONE whether you found me because you hit a tag or you are a follower or just stumbled across me I am very grateful for everyone’s interest and support.

I hope you like the photo of my sleeping Peppy the Weimaraner, he always turns pink when he’s tired – I think that is so cute. He is not allowed onto the furniture, but while on a visit home my daughter encouraged him to get on and I think he enjoyed every restful moment though my daughter did get in trouble for letting him up there. having a cuddle from her dog far outweighed the stern words from her father

In the last , almost, twelve months, I have grown from a complete computer novice to someone who can mostly get things to where they should be when I want them to be. I have undergone ””’intense””’ computer training and instruction from my daughter on a somewhat one day basis on her short visits home, to her setting me up a blog, again only showing me for a day what to do and then leaving me to it.
Another trip home for the weekend ended up with me having an Etsy site, again a days training with a few written instructions and my daughter left me pretty much to it. I really can’t express how scary this has all been. I grew up in the age where a computer was sixteen feet wide and ten foot tall and I wasn’t allowed as a school student to go near it — it was for the ‘new intake’ , the class of 1983, to learn how they worked — I was in the last year of high school and therefore it was considered ”no point to introduce technology to us” And so I left education at the age of 16 with absolutely no computer interaction. Some 30 years later here I am.

The last few years have been trying shall we say, with my debilitating condition and then in July of this year my Husband’s family firm disappearing after 35 years of trading. We as a family have had to pull together, as so many others have done in this sad time of recession, to start a new and adventurous life. Both my husband and myself are now self employed, he as a highly skilled roofer and building maintenance worker and myself with my small Etsy site and trading at local fairs with all my self taught skills in art and craft. As I think most people would admit life is harder now than some twenty years ago, whilst family will always be there with love and support, to be able to keep the things that matter after them, like your house and simple ways of life, we have to work harder then ever before. Both my husband and myself are not afraid of hard work, and we both each still do over ten hours each day, age and illness are not compatible with maintaining this degree of exhaustion though, so another thank you goes out to our daughter for introducing me to the computer, the internet and the world of on-line trading. As we are in the early days of getting known, I am hoping word of what I do will eventually spread and I can make our life easier as a successful artist and crafter

Learning by the hard knocks of life seems to never stop and so we will continue to learn. I have yet to introduce my husband to the world of computers and at the age of fifty he has his spots pretty much set in stone against it— but I will conquer him ! if I can do it so can he!!

If you have stayed with me this far down I very much appreciate it, in my little way of showing you what I do I hope to change our future one day!

Again a VERY BIG THANK YOU to however many people have been on my site and however you found me I am grateful for the power of networking I hope to share, inspire and bring a smile to those who find me!

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Another of my creations – An origami patchwork multi-pocket pouch – with a face!

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Patchwork origami folded multi pocket pouch

Since my gingerbread guy craze I seem to have let loose on all things, here I have again gone back to one of my old favourite creations, always with a unique twist. Some years back I was shown how to create a five or six pocket origami patchwork pocket, not content to go with the flow,  experimented with different folding techniques until I came up with my eight pocket pouch, sometimes I have added also a shoulder strap for little ones to have them as a bag. These I have omitted the strap to go with a more widespread audience. They could be used for a make-up bag, a craft utensil organiser, or indeed a little one’s treasured possession organiser.

Starting with either coordinating or contrasting cotton fabrics I have a sandwich of two cotton fabrics with a synthetic piece of wadding between measuring 16.5 inches square. From there I work a few folds and hand sew them into place, after a few more stitching details to bring the seems together and I add a face of recycled buttons. No two are ever going to be the same, making them all a one off product. Hand placing the buttons gives them all a unique character face, A small elastic or hand twisted cord fastener completes the look with their twisted back ‘ears’.

Each multi-pocket origami folded pouch has a differing pocket size internally, with the larger pockets at the back of the pouch and the smaller at the front.

If you are looking for something different – THIS IS IT ! AND all handmade 🙂

A couple of other examples below

Origami folded multi-pockets

”Wow I really am holding a sneeze in”

”I could be sucking a lemon you know!’

”Oh… They left me all on my own !”’

Pen and Ink – ‘On the Canal – In Colour’

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‘On the Canal – In Colour’

For those who have already seen the first post of this scene in ‘Pen and Inks’ just in black and white, I thought it might be nice to show you another version of the same coloured with inks. Not a medium I have worked much  with over the years, though every now and then I have another practice as above. I must admit I am always really excited by their vibrancy, (thinking about it, I really should have another practice – A girl can always do with a little excitement!)