Welcome to the Savvy Sister's Blogg

Wendy (my sister) and I had this idea to create an on-line community for like-minded women (both young and old) who wanted to share knowledge, skills, ideas. Generally supporting each other in the same way neigbours would support each other in the days when you knew who lived next door or down the road!

Day by day we are building on this idea - our blog will track our journey and you are welcome to join us.

Jill

ps. The photo is of 3 sisters who used to live in our home town - our dad took this photo in the 1960s.

Saturday 23 April 2011

My Clever Sister

Wendy and I have been planning our Oakham workshop today, we are so excited - we have 8 people already booked on and 2 possibles.  I've been out to buy some pink swimming noodles (sometimes called water woggles)  for the starter kits - these will be for rolling the flat pieces of felt. The starter kit bags will consist of:
  • 1m bubble wrap
  • 1 bottle of soap
  • 1 bottle of white vinegar
  • 0.6m tuile netting
  • 1 water sprinkler
  • 5x50g dyed merino ops (coloured wool fleece)
  • 40cm swimming noodle
  • 2 legs from a pair of tights
  • Instructions for the bag we are making in the workshop
We've also been designing out website - we want to start simply with felt making, then expanding to other crafts and other areas that interest us and hopefully others.  Neither Wendy or I are particularly girlie - the Savvy Sisters' identity is definately very pink and art deco.

Wendy has sent me a range of photos of her beautiful crafting for our website - she is so talented.  We are very similar in many ways; however, Wendy is far more creative than me, I'm more of a technician and like to work with tools.  Just look at some of Wendy's completed pieces:

Blue Heart Bag - not sure why the photo turned 90 degrees :-)
Rose Book Cover

Silk & Felt Nuno Scarf




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