Beach Hut - Fabric Picture

One little beach hut all by itself

Hang it on a wall

Or put it on a shelf

Do you know someone

Who likes beach huts?

Best get on to Folksy

Before the shop shuts :)

Short and sweet today.

See you tomorrow x





More scrappy beach huts

Last week I mentioned that I was going to be making a fabric picture of beach huts for my lovely friend's birthday. I know that some of you are big fans of beach huts and indeed some of you are lucky enough to live by or near to the sea. Well, after a trip to the North Norfolk coast, my friend was inspired to makeover one of the rooms in her house using colours with a definite seaside feel and that was my starting point.

I had recently made a cover for a footstool for her,




Not the most inspiring of photos - sorry



......which I was really pleased with, but wouldn't be in a rush to repeat the experience as my poor sewing machine struggled to cope with all those layers of fabric. A no nonsense bruiser of an industrial machine would have coped much better . The footstool belonged to the sofa in 'said' room.




Lots of layers of fabric here

Anyway the point of me mentioning this is to say, I remembered I had some scraps left over from this project and I decided to use one of them as the background for the picture. A lovely, ribbed heavy cotton furnishing fabric in a neutral sandy colour, perfect!

Then came the usual playing around with colours and I did have fun with this one. Getting the combination right and waiting for that 'pop' moment. The weird thing was that when I gave the present to my friend she squealed out loud, as the blue in the picture is the exact same fabric that she also has on one of the cushions in 'said' room. What a coincidence!!

I must admit I loved the way these colours came together and will I ever stop loving this applique thing? I chose a clean white frame to set the picture off.

Then the wrapping. Regular readers will know I enjoy a good bit of papercrafting. I made a box to house the picture and decorated it very simply with white ribbon, linen thread and a co-ordinated gift tag.




Poor picture - sorry



Let's have a closer look.........



Little bit of sponging on the background and around the edge, you can just see it if you look carefully


It was lovely to see the delight on my friends face when she opened up the box and I've seen it in it's new home and she's right it co-ordinates beautifully.

Well, I certainly feel like a bracing walk along a beach this morning, so I envy you if that's on your agenda but whatever you've got planned for today hope you enjoy it and thank you for visiting and saying hello.



What a difference a frame makes!

Hi there everyone, welcome to Tuesday and thank you so much for your lovely comments from yesterdays post, I poured myself a cuppa and settled down for a bit of 'me time' to fully digest them.
In getting things ready for the fair on Saturday I was re-framing a fabric picture I made a while ago - remember this?

Now look carefully at the frame, it's an Ikea one, it's fine, but when you look at the picture in it's new frame, wow what a difference!

Have a closer look and you can see the distressing a little better. I think my photos have turned out a little darker than I would have liked them to.

This was the first thing that I sold at the show and had generated alot of interest. One lady came back to purchase it only to find it had gone - so guess what I'll be making lots of from now on?

I just thought I would share this with you as I thought it was a very good example of just how important the setting you create for a picture can be, something I perhaps hadn't fully appreciated.

You've probably worked out that I've been doing alot of 'distressing' lately, in fact if you stand still for too long in our house you'll get painted white and rubbed down with a piece of sandpaper. Good fun though and it really gives a new lease of life to something that may have been consigned to the tip.

Thanks for coming to say hello today. Tomorrow I'll have a few pictures of the fair to share with you.

Happy Crafting

Scrappy Beach Huts

Hello and a big welcome to all of my new followers! I have had such fun browsing your wonderful blogs and have loved picking up ideas from you all or just stopping to go 'Wow or oooooh' every now and again.

Just a quickie today, beach huts made from scraps of fabric. What I like the most about this picture is the colour combination.You know the feeling you get when you play around with colours and then suddenly you just think 'Yeah'.

I framed it using a frame from those wonderful people at Ikea, it seemed to set it off quite nicely. Now I just have to think about where I'm going to hang it.

 Happy crafting.