Pottery house...

This ‘work of art’ is my early exploration of pottery in school, around 2008.

Sequin tabby cat...

Not all projects got finished – here is an early Pinflair kit to cover a polystyrene shape with sequins,  This was hard on the fingers and didn’t give me enough satisfaction in progress to finish, but an interesting early attempt.

I did finally finish this poor cat during the summer of 2012, five years after I started him.

The beginning of my knitting adventure...

Being left handed I found craft very difficult, and for the following 5 years, I did little but  knit a very slow garter stitch red scarf to keep my Grampy warm– it never did get longer than a metre, and had strange uneven edges where I kept stretching it to make it grow faster.  The blue scarf was my first intentional foray into holes, patterns and knitted textures.

And in the beginning......

Here’s my first exposure to textiles in primary school, a simple butterfly batik.  Mum still insists on hanging it on the wall of her office with all her other treasures!