Wychbury

This is the final post from me on this page as I am now moving over permanently to my new website where it's onwards and upwards and I have a new blog over there!  Thanks so much to everyone who...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-have-moved.html

If you read my blog post about being a big chicken a few weeks back or would like to read it now, you will either relate to it or you won't.  In the post I talked about my avoidant tendancies a...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2013/04/if-you-read-my-blog-post-about-being.html

Unfortunately, the high hopes we had for the Big Cartel shop we opened a few months back haven't really worked out as we'd planned.  Having the shop accessible through our facebook page seemed...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2013/03/big-cartel.html

Excuses excuses, yes this blog is as stale as the loaf ends you never eat but there are reasons for this, real ones...well OK, some real - some made up and then hidden from!  The fact is, my kid...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2013/03/chickens.html

I make and sell poppy products throughout the year and make a donation to The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal from each sale.  This year things are a little different in that I have now bra...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/10/poppy-appeal-2012.html

Covered Button Jewellery , originally uploaded by Wychbury . I've been trying to find a way to make jewellery pieces that have a similar feel to my wearable pincushions for a while. Some of...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/08/button-it.html

Over the past couple of years, motifs of cups and saucers, teapots and cakes have dominated the gift and home wares market and even seeped into high street fashion.  The Queen’s Jubilee, T...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/08/tea-and-crockery.html

I have a few small cupboards lying around that I thought would be perfect for 'Del Boy' style Wychbury showcases. I love the idea of turning up somewhere and opening the cupboards and selling Wy...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/06/wychbury-shop-display.html

Saltaire Arts Trail, Ten Day Countdown...FIVE , originally uploaded by Wychbury . This post is subtitled 'Poppies and PDQ' and is slightly retrospective as I am about 12 hours behind schedu...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/05/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day.html

Saltaire Arts Trail, Ten Day Countdown...SIX , originally uploaded by Wychbury . I did prepare this post last night but didn't get round to publishing it so there will be another later on f...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day.html

Saltaire Arts Trail Ten Day Countdown, SEVEN..... , originally uploaded by Wychbury . ONE WEEK to go, which means it's Saturday. This also means that I am doing lots of other things like tr...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day-countdown_28.html

So this biblical rain we are having has kept me stuck in the house for three days feeling more and more cooped up with each passing second. I got to the point that the sight of another pansy or...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day-countdown_27.html

Saltaire Arts Trail Ten Day Countdown, NINE.... , originally uploaded by Wychbury . Today I am embroidering and beading the little violas I cut and assembled yesterday. There are a lot of ...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day-countdown_26.html

Letterpress Cabinet #beads #wychbury , originally uploaded by Wychbury . Lovely find on holiday in Cornwall - spending way too much time filling it and colour co-ordinating instead of making je...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/letterpress-cabinet.html

Saltaire Arts Trail Ten Day Countdown, TEN..... , originally uploaded by Wychbury . I am once again coordinating the Makers' Fair Strand of the Saltaire Arts Trail for May 2012 as well as...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/saltaire-arts-trail-ten-day-countdown.html

Love Letters Pincushion Ring , originally uploaded by Wychbury . I've been reading some of the feedback from some of our customers after purchasing our pincushion rings. Several lovely people...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/04/love-letters-pincushion-ring.html

Poppies and Daffodils. , originally uploaded by Wychbury . Poppies and Daffodils. A gorgeous day and the last performance of Edith's Wartime Scrapbook this morning was a great success (see y...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/03/poppies-and-daffodils.html

We don't talk about poppies and the Poppy Appeal in March.  We are nowhere near November, poppies aren't even out at the moment and everyone is all off the crimson and on to pastels when it co...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/03/poppies-2011.html

A while ago, a customer sent me an enquiry about the possibility of me adapting one of my pincushion ring designs into a brooch. I had no plans to do so at the time and wasn't really sure how ...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/03/pincushion-brooch-worn.html

Little Viola Clips , originally uploaded by Wychbury .   I've made some new colours in Little Viola Clips that will be available in our shops shortly. In the meantime, if you love Flickr, ...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/02/pink-and-blue.html

In February of 2010, Lesley and I did an interview for the UK handmade blog and the final question we were both asked was 'If you had time to learn a new skill, what would it be?'. Lesley an...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/02/hooked.html

It's nearly still light at tea time, my table is covered in spring flowers...still feels like Winter though! I'm making hair clips like the clappers this week while I wait for supplies to come ...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-it-spring-yet.html

I've made a series of these rings with single image designs of animals and birds. They are taken from a gorgeous linen mix fabric from Japan by Etsuko Furuya - the design is called 'Ornament'. E...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-design-pincushion-rings.html

Autumnal poppy fascinator bands. , originally uploaded by Wychbury . My loft studio is often cold in winter and I drive my entire family batty by gradually migrating downstairs through the co...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2011/11/comfort-sewing.html

Filing Drawers and Gothic Mirror, Stall Design. , originally uploaded by Wychbury . We've got a few events coming up in the next few weeks so I've been messing around with stall design. I alw...

http://wychbury.blogspot.com/2011/10/autumn-stall.html