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Bonkers Bunting Progress

 Hello and welcome to my craftroom blog! As far as I know there is just one more piece to come in for our Bonkers Bunting, this year's Arty Farty Community project. I thought this would be a good time to lay it out and get a rough idea of how long it's going to be ... Starting at my front door     Stretching all the way to the back door! I paced it out and it's over the 10m I had estimated! Now my plan is to make a wrap to store it in - when it's all folded up, the stack measures about 20cm deep.         Inside the wrap I want to include the names and countries of everyone who contributed, probably hand-stitched onto linen or something.  If you'd like to come and see the Bonkers Bunting AND the Bonkers Quilt in person, I'll be taking it to the Bazaar August Show on the 15th and 16th August. You'll find me and my friends Marian and Lucy at Stitchy Corner, where you can sit and stitch with us for a while if you'd like to, using the gorgeous Indian...

Changes Afoot!

 Hello, and welcome to my craftroom blog! I'm shaking things up over on my YouTube channel   - a whole new chapter starts this Sunday, with the first ever  Sunday Brunch Live  from 2pm - 3.30pm UK time (BST). This weekly livestream will replace the WIP & Waffle Wednesdays AND the Arty Farty Parties which used to happen on the first Saturday of every month. Tom will join me in person and there will be the usual mix of arts and crafts with a generous portion of waffle! To celebrate the first Sunday Brunch, we'll be doing two giveaways - one for the stitchers and one for the mixed media arty types (although you can enter for both). More news about them later :) I decided that it's also a good time to refresh this blog and start making use of it again. I think it will be a great way to share information, extra photos, free printables, and those kinds of things, and also somewhere I can record thoughts, ideas, and news that I don't share elsewhere. It will also...