craft camp

it's a unofficial long weekend here in melbourne as there is some horse-race or other happening tomorrow (la tasse de melbourne...)

but yesterday there was a gathering of the Tribe at sewjourn and what a wonderful, relaxing, laughing, creative time we had. craft camp actually started on friday and there was a shifting crowd of crafters moving in and out of the studio - suse, janet, kate and yuki formed the core while we part-timers came and went.

we knitted
sewed,
stitched,
sketched,
ate,
took photos,and prayed to the felting goddess.i made sure i didn't park in the swamp again - although the scars of the previous bogging are still in evidence.after staying up knitting and chatting and comparing pit fur, we finally went to bed just before 2am. so i looked a bit worse for wear when i woke up. but quickly recoveredi started a new piece this weekend and made a fair bit of progress at sewjourn. the base is an old cotton cot sheet i found at the op shop and i am stitching fragments of silk, cotton, linen and lace gleaned from the stash and ancient garments.

back later to show you my lancefield op shop booty