Blue textile moth

After a productive year on Etsy, my shop will be going on the back burner for a month or three. My aim is to sell as much as possible before getting the mothballs out. Consequently, I have reduced all prices considerably.   Please check out my Winter sale, if you have any questions or want to reserve items, just get in touch :) https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/elinart Please note my Xmas shipping deadlines :-  Canada and USA - 7th December / Europe - 12th December / UK - 15th December.

New mouldy madness brooches

 Two new, small sized, multi-coloured mouldy madness brooches.

http://elinthomas.bigcartel.com

Mould

Superb mould on natural yogurt. Yum!

Observer weekend magazine

Look out for my crochet mould in the Observer weekend magazine on Sunday 11th October. Hopefully pics will be up on their website a few days later :)

I'm pleased to announce.....

Better late than never! After a trip to St Ives and some serious computer trouble, I'm at last able to pick a winner of my blog giveaway. Thank you to all who took part by leaving comments and those who contacted me privately : If you didn't win this time, don't worry, there will be another giveaway along soon. So, well done to Delia!!

On other winning matters, I'm pleased to say I'm going to be featured in the Observer Weekend Magazine shortly. I'll post more about this soon. Thanks again to everyone! :))

Another great find!

I'm really pleased with this new vintage find. It's a Wade starfish pin/trinket dish, made in Ireland the 60's or 70's. It cost the princely sum of £3 from a charity shop on Llandielo high street in mid Wales :)

Summer love

10% discount code at my Etsy shop for the next three weeks. Enter 'SUMMER15' at checkout!!

The crochet coral brooch above is my current blog giveaway. All those followers* who leave a comment in this or coming posts will be put into a hat mid-September. The lucky winner picked form the hat will receive this colourful brooch. 
* Blog, Flickr and Twitter

                                Quick peek at one of four nature studies I'm working on this week. 
                                                                     Thanks for looking :)

My Etsy shop is now updated. I'm happy to reserve items or make custom orders. Thank you for viewing!

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/elinart?section_id=17543456&ref=shopsection_leftnav_6

The photo is a money plant which I had to clean a thick layer of dust off first and an old green hand towel draped behind.....I like to keep my costs down ;)

Ready to fly.

                                          Dark brown iridescent upholstery fabrics, linen, polyfibre filling, glass beads. brooch back.

I'm near to completing about 12 of these moths in various colours. I have yet to find a good way of making the antennae, button thread has the right thickness but even a touch of wax doesn't make them positionable.  I am going to try watered down pva and a couple of other things to see if I can make them perkier. Any suggestions for a fix would be much appreciated :)

                                           Hand painted linen, Joel Dewberry fabric, polyfibre filling, glass beads. brooch back.


I've reached a point where I'm starting to use fabric paint and adding more hand-stitching, the urge to embellish is overwhelming! This means I have to take a different tack from now on. I have just purchased some long entomology pins, the next batch of moths will be more elaborate but constructed specifically for wall display. I'll work to a standard Ikea box frame size which will hold two of these small moths or one larger. It means, I don't have to hold back when it comes to the details.

                                      Vintage Laura Ashley fabric, Joel Dewberry fabric, polyfibre filling, glass beads. brooch back.
 
All the 12 completed moths will be available to purchase next week in my Etsy shop on Monday 20th at 2pm. They will be listed at a special price in order to encourage their successful flight. 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/elinart