I had a lovely day on Saturday craft shopping with a friend. We started off at a shop specialising in Japanese material, then onto a shop which sells nothing but buttons and then, finally, to a craft fair. I came home with bags of goodies which I emptied out onto the living room floor and gloated over much like I used to many years ago upon returning from the Show with chocolate-filled showbags (In Australia we have 'Royal Agricultural Shows'. They are pretty much the same as a fair in other countries, whereby farm animals are brought to the City for urban folk to look at, you go on rides, you eat junk food and you buy showbags.)So, I display before you some of the loot of my haul. Gorgeous 'fat quarters' of Japanese material and also some vintage-style material that I bought at the craft fair; lovely little 'things' (for want of a more technical term) to make jewellery with and some art deco-style buttons and two little hearts which I have since made with the material for my parents' wedding anniversary on Thursday (40 years!)
Then, of course, there is a gorgeous project I just had to share with you. I found a Jackie annual from 1979 while thrifting yesterday and this just leapt out at me. The egg-and-bacon hat and matching bag. Just let me know if you'd like to make them, and I'll send you the pattern...
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I'm sure that my fingers can never achieve those. HAHAHA!
I wonder if anyone made the egg-and-bacon hat??
Oh, Jackie! Oh my. I hadn't thought about Jackie in years. Did you grow up overseas as I did or did it exist here too?
You certainly have the power to awaken a few long asleep neurons!
No, we had Jackie here. I remember I got a great poster of the Nolan Sisters out of Jackie and it went on my bedroom wall...
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