poke and fingers crossed brooches

Feather your nest

Craft Hatch goodies are now available for purchase on ETSY. Finally!!
Hand felted faux taxidermy Australina Wren head brooches
Sparrow & wren embroidered brooches
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Ink sketch heat transfer brooches.

Birds, birds and more birds!!!

for craft hatch

I will be selling bird head brooches mounted on thin log rounds. These will be a series of australian wrens:
Mallee emuwren (stipitrus mallee), Superb fairy wren (Malurus cyaneus), Purple-backed wren (Malurus assimilis), Lavender-flanked wren (Malurus dulcis), Lilac-crowned wren (Malurus coronatus), Grey grassren (Amytornis barbatus), Lovely wren (Malurus amabilis)

Yesterday I made this head while watching a dodgy saturday afternoon tv movie.
It is a lilac crowned wren (malurus Coronatus). It is Nuno felt, made using alpaca fleece, hand stitched with bright purple thread.

The cut rounds are from a wattle tree which came down in a storm. As the timber is still green, I'm seasoning it in the oven.Unfortunately for one batch I had the temperature up too high and split most of the rounds. Because of that, I know 50-80 degrees is a good range to work in. After reducing the moisture content, these will be sanded, shellaced and varnished.

I anticipate the brooches to look simliar to the above picture, only the log rounds will be varnished.

embroidered bird brooches gen 1

Generation I, looking mighty flat and a tad blah. Making gen II now with a bit of stuffing. I Probably will turn the originals from brooches into hanging decorations or something twee.

Embroidered brooches

I just started to make some embroidered bird brooches.
A quick ink pen sketch on Calico with 2X coloured thread embroidery. Some bad lowlight photobooth images. I will take some photos in the daylight tomorrow.
1X House Sparrow
1X White throated sparrow
1X House Finch
1X Carolina wren

The next batch i make will have some stuffing....these guys are just too flat and stiff looking.
Materials: Calico, thread, ink pen, card, felt/fabric.

Favourites in November

Vinyl brooch by Liam PrescottFreaking awesome repurposing of a vinyl record!


King Parrot wrapping paperKickass wrapping paper. Lovely and glossy.

Ceramic nipple brooch by Katie Jacobs Love the colour, the glaze, the double take people give you

Kidney+Lint

Monster bag of lint! well not lint but discarded fleece that catches in the machine when being dried after washing.
I'm using this cast off alpaca fleece as stuffing. It smells surprisingly sweet like honey. weird.
Kidneys stuffed with the fleece

Offal nice kidney brooches 2008 to control temperament and disposition
heat transfer, cotton fabric, gold velveteen, black, mint + neon green thread.