***Product News*** Dala Horse Greetings Cards

My Dala Horse design greetings cards / notelets are now available to buy online at Lasso the Moon... They are available in various colours either as singles or packs of three. Being blank inside they are incredibly versatile - use them for any occasion, from thank you cards to party invitations...

 

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Original Court & Spark Dala Horse Lavender Bag Tutorial

Here's my original tutorial - a version of which was published in Sew Hip Issue 30 July 2011.

This tutorial is for lavender hangers made using a horse design but it could easily be applied to any other shape or piece of fabric you like...

Step 1

• Choose the horse or other shape on the cloth you want to use and cut out a square around it.
• Cut a matching square of backing fabric.
• Cut ribbon to required length (mine is approx. 25 cm)

Step 2

• Place the pieces right sides together and pin at the bottom.
• Fold fabric apart.
• Place ribbon against right side and pin in place (as above). 
• Fold fabric back together remembering to roll up the ribbon so it doesn't get caught up in the stitching.

Step 3

• Pin - I usually pin across the outline of the horse shape but if the shape looks faint or you feel unsure, you can always trace the outline first with some tailor's chalk.

Step 4

• Taking your time, machine stitch carefully around the outline of the horse leaving an approx. 1.5 cm gap along the belly for stuffing. 

Step 5

• Remove pins and trim seams.

Step 6

• Turn right side out and press if required.

Step 7

• Generously stuff the the horse with a mix of lavender and polyfill - doing this inside a clear plastic bag saves a lot of mess (!)

Step 8

• Hand stitch the gap closed using ladder stitch and sew button in place to finish.

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Court & Spark Lavender Dala Horse Tutorial in Sew Hip Issue 30 - a bit disappointing...

Nice of them to let me know but I thought I'd just share that my Dala Horse Lavender Bag tutorial was included in Issue 30 of Sew Hip which I believe has been out for a little while now... It's all a bit disappointing as there is no mention of Court & Spark - only some lovely free mentions for three of my suppliers - ? And all my hard work photographing the tutorial has been replaced by some (in my opinion) quite scrappy illustrated diagrams :(

I am going to post my original tutorial here on the blog on Wednesday.

Anyway at least the little horses made the front page...(!)

 

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I've been FOFFED!

My Yellow Dala Horse was included in Found on Folksy's 'Scandinavian Style' collection - now I can finally proudly display the FOF badge!

 

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New Online Stockist

Some of my items are now available on brand new and very lovely website Very Nice Things! This is now one of the only places you can get my blue and mauve horses as I have now completely sold out(!) Just click on the logo to check it out!

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It's Folksy Friday!!

And before I've had a chance to get mine together I've been featured in a couple of lovely cheery ones already!

Yellow Dala Folk Horse in Little Blue Shed's Folksy Friday: "Sunshine on a Rainy Day"

Check out Little Blue Shed Blog and Little Blue Shed on Folksy

Russian Matryoshka Dolls in Bliss Knits' Folksy Friday: Harvest Festival

Check out Bliss Knits Blog and Bliss Knits on Folksy

Court & Spark Facebook Page Giveaway

Inspired by Kokokelli, I've decided to do a GIVEAWAY when my facebook page reaches 100 fans! I’m only at around 30 at the moment so need all the Follower help I can get! The Prize: ✲✲✲ Your choice of colour Dala Folk Horse Decoration ✲✲✲ To be in with a chance of winning, all you need to do is “like” my page via the link below and invite friends to join … I will choose the winner using classtools.net RandomPicker tool once I reach 100 fans!! Court & Spark’s Facebook Page Good Luck!!

Lovely Purple Folksy Friday/September Stars from Mary Elliot (including one of my Dala Horses)

Click on the image to view the blog post:

A lovely birthday surprise!

Thanks to SwirlyArts for featuring one of my little yellow horses in her blog post this morning...

http://swirlyarts.blogspot.com/2010/09/folksy-september-stars.html

very nice selection!

My First Folksy Friday "Horsing Around"

A very simple theme for my first ever Folksy Friday, but since I've started making horses I've become a bit obsessed with them and there's so many wonderful horsey things out there... (plus my name Philippa means "lover of horses"!!)

Handprinted horses cushion by Helkatdesign

 

Hunter Gatherer Horse by One of Four

Galloping horse silhouette lampshade from Sara's decorative silhouette designs & more

Folk Horse Paper Cut Collage by Mangle Prints

Playing in the Sonoran Desert I etching by clairemcvinnie

Donkeys Disturbed By A Meteor Shower by James Green - Printworks

 

All the Kings Horses Racer back Vest from Bonbi Forest

I'm becoming addicted to curating Etsy Treasuries!!

Horsing Around My first Treasury featuring Horses of course(!)


Darling Dala featuring the lovely Scandinavian Dala Folk Horses that I've become a bit obsessed with...


Silhouettes on the Window... Self explanatory really - lots of lovely monochrome that I've discovered on my Etsy surfing trips...

One of my blue Folk Horses featured in bootiesbydannie.blogspot.com

Thanks to Dannie for including one of my little blue Folk Horses in her blog about Folksy's September stars...

http://bootiesbydannie.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-stars-some-real-gems.html

Dannie has a fab Folksy Shop and website where she sells lovely crocheted items including the cutest baby booties (these red ones are my absolute favourites - I wish they came in my size(!))

www.folksy.com/shops/BootiesByDannie

Featured in an Etsy Treasury today!!

One of my Folk Horse Decorations was featured in an Etsy Treasury today! This is a list of Etsy items collected together by an Etsy member and posted on the site. In this case it was curated by Bluebirdheaven who has a great Etsy Shop selling"repurposed antiques" amongst other things...
Check out her Treasury collection here:

The Last Lemonade stand of the summer by bluebirdheaven on Etsy

At least this means people are finding me - sometimes(!)

Folk Horse Decorations on MISI