Fox Cub Alert!

The lovely Jackie sent me this charming photo of Freddie Falcon - I hope he's still keeping those other naughty foxes out of your house!

If you have any photos of my fabric creations in their new 'surroundings' it would be great to see them, I'd love to have an album so I can see where they've ended up!

Fox U Like

....and sometimes the big things in life make me happy too! Check out this giant urban fox on the South Bank, foxy is around until September....

Herringbone Twins

I tried out my fox design using this herringbone fabric, kind of makes your eyes go a bit blurry eh?

Fox Club

Off to Elphick's!

Find these fellows at Elphick's on Columbia Road.....

Double Trouble!

I enjoyed making the patchwork foxes, but boy - were they tricky to make and took soooo long! To compensate, I designed a smaller, less complicated fox/cub, they look a bit cheeky though!

Patchwork Fox

I've been working on a group of foxes, seven in all, cut out from seven different fabrics. I think this fox style works better with a mix of fabrics because the pattern shapes are easier to see, with the last set I made you can't really see how the shapes fit together so they look like mysterious blobby creatures with protruding noses and tails! Anyway here's one from the set, I'll show you the others another time....

Family of Foxes

Here's my latest offering, a tweedy family of foxes. I'm not sure which name to use for a group of foxes there are quite a few - skulk, cloud, troup, company, leash and earth.........

Ear! Ear!

Hello, I'm back in the studio after what feels like yonks! I have been busy posting out zillions of packages for my other half's Etsy shop, a lot of you out there are sooo romantic or maybe you have been dropping heavy hints your partner's way! Anyway my work was temporarily put on hold, but now I'm back in studioville and plan to be making things on a regular basis.

Boom Boom!

Went to lovely Rye last weekend and picked up the Uhura book and storage bags, I didn't buy the Basil Brushes - I just took a sneaky photo of those cheeky fellas. All of which remind me of growing up in Birmingham in the 60's and 70's. For a young girl growing up in inner city Birmingham it was very inspiring to see an intelligent, sophisticated and seriously glamorous black woman on 'Star Trek'- great TV. Basil Brush was a nutty TV hand puppet character who was very naughty and made me and my brothers laugh.....

Finished Foxes

I've finally managed to make a few sleeping foxes and one of them has already made a friend!

I've put a couple on etsy and will add others later.

Follow that Fox!

I have been working on another fox design. This time I wanted to make a sleepy fox that could tuck his tired head under its tail when necessary. It has taken a few attempts as usual ( check out the comical duck blob on the left!). I'm nearly there, the top photo is getting near to how I'd like it to look. Big thanks to Sarah for finding and washing the lovely jumbo corduroy that I'm using to create sleeping fox.

Foxy Friends

Get Stuffed!

I've done a little bit more on the old fox samples, these ones haven't been filled yet - watch out for my stuffing stick guys!

Fox Pix

Those ears, those ears, I think they need to go north a bit more...

Motley Crew

I'm not quite there yet, but still trying!!!!!

Out Foxed!

Well, here are my latest offerings, you're probably thinking - an elephant and a penguin???. Alas, I wasn't aiming for either of those wonderful creatures, no infact I've begun the slow (but rewarding) process of creating a pattern for a fox hopefully. There's probably a better way of doing this than my trial and error method, but I haven't come across it yet!I quite like urban foxes, I know they get bad press, but so do wild bears and mad dogs (and a few bothersome people for that matter!) - It hasn't stopped me from liking some of them! So this is my current project, to create a pattern I'm happy with because I've got some gorgeous fabric waiting to be used.....

Boxing Day Fox