Upcoming Events

Here is a quick rundown of all my upcoming events.

Saturday 4th October

Falkland Craft market

Falkland Village Hall

Fife

10-4pm

Saturday 25th October

Ptcairngreen Village Hall

Craft Fair

Pitcairngreen near Almondbank

by Perth

10.30 - 3pm

Sunday 2nd November 

Morningside Makers Market

2 Newbattle Terrace

Edinburgh

EH10 4RT

11-4pm

Sunday 16th November 2014

The Handmade Show

Perth Concert Hall

10.30-4.30pm

Saturday 22nd November 2014

Winter Makers Market

The Steeple

Newburgh

10-4pm

I will have my full range of items with me at all events and will be busy making over the next few weeks to bring you some new takes on existing designs.

Pendants £24

Earrings £18

Bracelets £20

Rings £18

Brooches £12

I'm looking forward to making more Ivy Leaf Brooches in different colours this week.

It's becoming more difficult every year to fit everything on one table at Craft Fairs but I will of course have all my printed items with me.

Mugs £8.50

Notebooks £5.95

Cards £2.50

Mousemats £6.95

I will of course have my 2015 Calendars with me.

This is what the pages look like opened out.

There are different images for each month.

Calendar 

£10

 This was my stand at last weeks fair in Edinburgh. I was given a second table for free which was wonderful. It made such a difference being able to spread everything out.

Hope to see some of you somewhere along the line!

Winter Makers Market at The Steeple in Newburgh Saturday 7th December

I will have a stall at the 

Winter Makers Market on Saturday 7th December at The Steeple, Newburgh, Fife

10 - 4.30 pm

 I will have my full range of items with me including a few new makes.

These oval Seascape Pendants are £22.

Made with heat fused and stitched fabrics set behind resin.

Or what about a sunset behind purple mountains!

I made a couple of new felt pictures last week but they sold within minutes via Facebook so I had this one made into a printed card.

'First Frost' Printed Card £2.50 Available here

Looks lovely framed don't you think? You can hardly tell it apart from the original which is shown below.

 I also made this picture. 'Little Lochty Cottage' measures 12 x 1 7 cm and comes complete with mount and 20 x 26.5 cm frame.

£65 available here

I'm excited to use my new display trays at my next events.

These stacking trays not only allow me to display more pieces neatly on my stall but they are perfect for storing in between fairs and make finding individual pendants and earrings sets so much easier.

As you can see I have a lot more in stock that I have listed on line. I'll hopefully get time to list some more next week.

after the Makers Market at The Steeple I will be exhibiting at a 

Mini Art and Craft Show

at 9 Kirkbrae, Cults, Aberdeen

This is to be held at the home of my friend Michelle and I will be joined by Loobie and Boo and Couthie Designs by Linda Thomson.

 Linda makes beautiful felt scarves and collars and other felt items.

Scarf by Linda Thomson.

Laura at Loobie and Boo makes a variety of Harris Tweed phone, ipad and kindle covers plus key rings brooches and more.

This little event will be a real treat and a feast of colourful felt and tweed!

Phone Cosies by Loobie and Boo

Makers Market at The Steeple, Newburgh

I had a lovely day on Saturday at The Makers Market in Newburgh. It was gloriously sunny and warm so I felt really privileged to have a stall outside for a change, especially one as fab as this! 

The stall was hand built by local artist/blacksmith and fellow Open Studios participant, Jim Shears. He plans to make another and they will be available to hire from Twist Fibre Crafts Studio.

It was fabulous to have so much space on the stand and plenty of room behind my shelf unit for packing sold items.

Here is Jim at his portable forge during the market.

My Mum popped along to see me and bought us coffee's and delicious lemon meringue Tiffin from Hatter's and Co's pop up cafe in the courtyard. 

Next to me on the other side were Rustic Simplicity with their gorgeous oak barrel furniture and cupboards.

Below is Newburgh based Jason Shearer playing his Tank Drum or Yantra as he calls it. I loved the sounds this instrument makes and asked Jason about it. Turns out he makes them from old gas bottles! If you fancy one, Jason will make you one for £150.

Contact jason.shearer@rocketmail.com

There was a great atmosphere at the Market with local session musicians playing tunes throughout the afternoon. These guys can be found regularly at The Stag Inn in Falkland every Wednesday evening from 8pm.

Today has been spent tidying up the work space and organising my stock. Lots of new pieces have been listed on Etsy.

Pendants £22

Bothan Ruadh

£35

Candlewick Cottage

£65

Now it's back to the felt making to build up a stock of new Trinket Boxes and start on my pictures for next year's calendar. 

Hope everyone is having a productive month. June can be such a lovely time of year with everything being so lush and a bit warmer at last! Hoping to do plenty of sewing outside soon.

May Makes

I had a lovely time with the ladies of the AWA (American Women's Association of Aberdeen) on Monday. I might be going back later in the year so I'll keep you all informed about that.

My next event is the Makers Market at The Steeple in Newburgh on Saturday June 8th

This week sees me getting all my available work photographed and listed

 in my Etsy Shop as well as working on commission pieces and other bits and pieces.

This Textile Trinket Box with Sea Shells is now available here

£32

I made quite a few little Harris tweed and felt boxes for Open Studios and only have two left!

Thankfully I have plenty of Tweed though so more of these coming soon.

Boxes £30

My Ivy Leaf Brooch Pins are proving to be very popular with all the purple ones sold out already. These gorgeous greens are still available though at £12 each.

More brooch pins. All of these brooches have an extra long brooch pin on them to allow them to be used as shawl pins or to keep draped cardigans closed at the front. They also look lovely on a lapel or hand bag and some of my customers tell me they wear them on their hat!

Harris Tweed and Felt Bird Brooch Pin

£12

All brooches available here

I have a few new Textile Jewellery pieces available as well.

I get asked a lot what these pendant and earring pieces are made from because people sometimes think they are fused glass.

When I used to make a lot of textile art cards and pictures, I loved the effect of the layered shimmery fabrics together and set about finding a way to make them wearable but durable. I came up with this idea to set the fabrics into pendant trays behind either resin or glass.

Pendants £22

These heart shaped earrings feature solid silver handmade ear wires by local jeweller 

Anne Miller.

 Heart Shaped Earrings with Handmade Ear Wires 

£18

Circle and Square Earrings from £15

For Open Studios this year I had a lot of my original felt pictures professionally framed.

This is 'Island Cottage and Boat' in it's beautiful frame from Robertson Fine Art in Glenrothes.

Island Cottage and Boat 

£195

Available here

I'm planning to make more pictures this size over the coming months and to make them available to be shipped worldwide in their lovely frames.

I also have one unframed piece available at the moment.

Harris Beach

£85

More of these coming soon as well.

So although we have had an extended winter and are still waiting for the warmer weather to arrive, I have been finding the temperatures soaring out in my wee shed!

It got up to 24 degrees in here the other day! SUN TRAP! So that's where I have been doing all my needle felting and hand sewing.

My new business cards also arrived last week. These grape hyacinth and primula have the sweetest scent an are so cheerful in my Lochbroom Pottery jug.

I will be continuing to list new items online this week and will hopefully get some more felt pictures finished really soon.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog.

Aileen.