vintage town: Patchwork mania!

Here are some pictures of the patchwork items I've been making lately. I decided that patchwork was an excellent vehicle for showcasing small scraps of all the lovely vintage fabrics I have hanging around in my work room...you can purchase them at either of my online shops
http//vintagetown.folksy.com and http//vintagetown.etsy.com

Fancy a cuppa?

Here's the first item from my new range of homes accessories, a patchwork tea cosy made in vintage and retro fabrics. It fits a two-cup pot and you can find it for sale in my Folksy shop here:
www.folksy.com/shops/vintagetown

One of my favourite books!

I really loved this book when I was small, although the details of the story are a bit hazy now...

I seem to remember that the heroine, Harriet, is about 8 years old, and helps her aunt run a cafe called the Cherry Pie. She also becomes an actress somehow along the way.

I've been looking for it for ages in all my usual charity shops and car boot fairs, but no luck yet. If you've got one for sale at a reasonable price, please get in touch!

There's an interesting mention of it on one of my favourite blogs http://www.middlebrowmagazine.co.uk but other than that none of my friends remembers it. If you should happen to stumble across it, snap it up and read it to all the 8+ children you know, it's a great story.

The eagle has landed...

...and here it is, my new book! Its officially published on 24 June.

Sign up to follow me and I'll pick someone at random to receive a free copy of the book.

You can buy it online at davidandcharles.co.uk and all the usual outlets. Hope all you upcycling fans like it, let me know!

Why not post pics of projects you've made? I'll see if I can add them to my blog so we can recycle the love...

vintagetown's photostream

vintagetown's photostream on Flickr.

Here's a selection of my work from flickr. I actually meant to add a nice little slideshow, with moving pics, but can't work out how to do it. I keep uploading photos of someone's trip to China instead. Oh well, this will have to do.

Must make more bags!!

Here are some more rescue pinnies waiting to be transformed into bags. Sadly neither has such an interesting label as my lovely pink original, but I won't let that stop me, dear readers.