Contrasting cushion colours

Finally! I stitched these cushion covers late in 2021, but it’s taken until yesterday (May 2022) to dig out my sewing machine to make the backing for them. After a bit of experimenting, the first thing I did was sew the zips in.

I’m really pleased with how they’ve turned out (not my very best machine sewing, but okay), and they’ve been taken to Kapiti Gallery for the “Fine Feathers: spinning, weaving, knitting & felting Exhibition” opening on Thursday 19th May.

Read the rest of their story on my Eclectic Yarn page.

Natural fibre artwork sells!

Two of my fibre artworks have sold this week, Silver Birch with Lavender through from out of the blue studio gallery in Ōpunake, and Summer into Autumn at the Waikanae Community Market. The second sale followed a conversation about the fibres I used, and I mentioned that work submitted to the gallery in Ōpunake is required to be made from “all natural fibres – no synthetics allowed”, and how it’s influenced my choices so that (unless using up bits of my old stash) I now try to use all NZ wool, sometimes cotton, but no acrylics. The ‘browsers’ returned a short time later to purchase a fibre artwork, saying, “We’d like to support you.”

Links to: Silver Birch Forest, Stitching inspired by mosaic art, and Fibre Art

Silver Birch with Lavender (2021)
Summer into Autumn (i) (2021)

Images © bronwyn angela white (2021)

@bronz.beads first midweek market a success!

My @bronz.beads first time Mahara Midweek Market was a great success today: it was good to be under shelter from the persisting rain. Some other stallholders had pulled out because of the weather, but when people commented we were brave to be out in this weather, I pointed out that if it was sunny, I’d have to be at home mowing the lawns, but instead I was having a nice morning, knitting and chatting and selling jewellery to the nice folks in Waikanae.

It was great to sell two of the four brand new bracelets I made last night, as well as Christmas ‘trinkets’ – and a couple of knitted wreaths and Xmas trees I took along ‘just in case’.

Image © bronwyn angela white
Image © bronwyn angela white
Image © bronwyn angela white

We’re back – and Nanna’s knitting again

Big Brother and Little Brother were living in Australia for a couple of years, and before that, they spent a year in South Korea.

“In Queensland, we didn’t need warm knitted clothes, so Nanna stopped knitting for us. But now we’re home in New Zealand, she’s been knitting again. See our bright stripey scarves in the colours we chose!”

Nanna says when she’s finished stitching a fibre artwork, she’ll knit some more – for us, and for you to buy. There are still cool things in her online shops, littlebrotherbigbrother and electicyarn on the Felt platform.

You can see more photos of us in Nanna’s knitting on the knit knack paddy whack page.