Uplifting continues

And then there was some pottery stuff.

 I collected my Hen Heart Plate (and Miss Teen's pressie for her Mum, but I can't post that). 

It came out really well, better than I'd hoped.   

I drew round the plate, cut out the heart, marked the centre, and the top and the bottom of the heart, and scanned it. Then I resized the scan to 90%, saved it, printed it, cut it out.   Resized the original to 80%, saved it, prnted it, cut it out;  Resized the original to 70%, saved it, printed it, etc etc. 

I pierced the centres, so I could align them and then drew round each one, in pencil, giving me lines to use to write on.

I hadn't set out to do background colours, it was originally going to be just a white background.   I made a cockup right at the start, and I had to paint over it,  so I ended up painting in each band before doing the writing.

Each "set" of hens was done in one colour, and  the colour changed for the next "set".     It starts with "Delilah", in the centre.    I wanted to do a heart shaped spiral, and the crossovers can be seen where "Not Norman" follows "Siouxsie",   where "Batty" follows "Nora", and where "Pong" follows "Ping" (I've marked them on the closeup)

 I fluffed up near the end, I accidentally leant on "Blondie" while I was putting the dots round the edge.

I'd had to get my spreadsheet out to get the hens in the right sequence.  I know the sequence of the garden girls, and I know the sequence of he Allotmenteers,  but I've rarely ever thought of them all together and I didn't want to miss anyone.

Janet at Hands on Art recommended a particular type of plate hanger, so it's going on a wall soon! 

I forgot to collect my medium sized jug, which I'd taken in to be fired a couple of weeks ago.  I'm going to collect it when I collect the tall jug (DH finally painted his side of the tall jug, and we took it in to be fired when we collected this plate), and I'll post about them then.

Total crafty things this year: 47

Sewing based makes: 
123) Inner pad for foot muff; make cover for foot muff;  trim down Superking Duvet to KS and recover edges;
456)Cushion cover for Miss T; Gift bags for Miss T and GDK;
7)Dressing Gown;
8-10)Cat Duvet, Duvet Cover and Pillowcase;
11) Cushion cover for living room;
12-15) Sleeveless tops (x4);
16) SBCC top
17) Overlocker chicken
18) Curtains for nest boxes (4, but counted as 1 make)~
19,20,21)Boxers for DH (test pairs for sizing - counted as 1,  and then 2 pairs)
Abandoned muslin for LoveNotions Willow Wrap Dress (not counted in total makes)
22)Apostrophe Patterns Joggers (jellyfiah and space)
23)Apostrophe Patterns Flared Joggers (black, with big red roses)
24)Boxes for DH (3 pairs using black cotton lycra with patterned fly)
25)Shorten the hems and sleeves on 4 of Mum's day dresses (count as 1 task)
26) repurposed  old tee shirt as cover for mini cushion
27) Burrito rolled bag (from Jane's July Zoom)
28) Replace waistban on massively oversized maxi skirt
29) Salvage DH's Firestorm tee shirt (using stretchyfix)
30) Yet another Heartlight skirt (July) feathers scuba, great pattern matching, good fit on waistband
31) Convert single duvet cover to king size
32) Convert 1 pillowcase to 2,  and create 2 additional plain pillowcases to match
33) Dressing gown (LoveNotions Compose) (black flowers on white, brished cotton)

Learning activities:
1) Scanning pattern pieces; 2) Making movies; 3)Babylock demo day; 4)Gathering using my overlocker;   5) Euphy training (circles,using elastic in looper);6) Gail Yellen's binder course; 7) Inkscape 1; 8) casting on;  9)purling; 10)casting off

Non sewing based craft makes: 
A) Painted bisque butter dish and had it fired
B) Knitted Infinity scarf, first attempt (pinks) 

C) Painted bisque small jug (hen names) and had it fired. 

D) Heart shaped plate with names of all our pet hens, and had it fired