Happy Birthday, Granny Funk!!!

Granny Funk Is 2!!!

To celebrate, I thought I'd post a few snaps from the highlights of the last couple of years - starting with the very first stall! There'll be a corresponding album up on Granny Funk's facebook page soon, so stay tuned and please tag yourself or your project if you see it!!!

Thanks to all of you who've made it such a fun couple of years so far - creative partners, technical supporters, and most of all happy customers, those of you who've commissioned special pieces and delightful delightful students! It's been great working, teaching and learning with you!

xxXXX!! Granny Funk

Launch into Urban Rhythms this Winter!

Hooray!!!

Winter's a-comin in! And now's a perfect time to grab your Urban Rhythms little mitts, a beanie - or why not both! - before the cold weather sets in. City-slick-it in style this winter with quality handmade gear made here in WA from Australian wool processed at one of Australia's few remaining woollen mills!

Here are some pics from our photo shoot - so fun! Photography by the amazing Ailsa Bowyer and modelled by the awesome Bonnie.

Head on over to Granny Funk's Etsy Shop to grab yours (there's a special deal if you buy a set!).

x Granny Funk

Twilight Christmas Market

Well, it's been a bit quiet here over the busy season... but everything's gearing up again now with classes for the year! I thought I'd share a few pics with you from the Twilight Festival of Christmas Market last year - the debut of Granny Funk's new Urban Rhythms range!

Note the teapot in the last picture - here she's a prop for the crocheted heat mats, but keep your eye out, she'll feature in the next post!

xx Granny Funk

You may have noticed....

You may have noticed that Granny Funk has a new look - a restyled version of her previous logo, spruced up and re-funkified by the wonderful Edd Shepherd, to keep up with the ever-changing world around her and all you folk out there who like bright, shiny, pretty things - and because that's just the kind of lady she is.

She hopes you like her new look - and you'll notice too a slogan that "outs" this little doddering lady as a post-industrialist radical. Because Granny Funk believes in handmade textiles and teaching handskills not just because the results are pretty, useful, and high quality (all fantastic reasons!) but also because she wants to contribute to a post-industrial economy in which we make better use of energy, including the energy of our own hands, an economics of justice in which there is no "cheap" labour with its hidden costs to young Asians working in sweatshops for pittance, and an economics of stewardship in which we learn to make use of our local resources to their best capacities. Because efficiency, scale, and gross profit are not synonymous with satisfaction, human autonomy, or joy.

Granny hopes you'll join her on the journey.

xx Granny Funk

Fruits of the Wheel

I thought I'd show you this beautiful yarn spun from a pre-dyed blend of wool and silk tops and crocheted into a beanie in a simple ridge design - and there's Granny's lovely wheel in the background!

This beanie won a Highly Commended in the spinning category in the Kelmscott Annual Show in October - hurrah!

x Granny Funk

Urban Rhythms Sneak Peek!

As promised, here's a sneak peek at Granny Funk's new range, Urban Rhythms, to be launched in November! They are handmade with lovely Australian wool.

Stay tuned!

x Granny Funk

FibresWest and "these rags of light"

I was lucky enough to go down to Bunbury for the tri-yearly FibresWest Conference this month to hone my textiles skills at an five-day Eco-Couture course with Charlene O'Brien of Tierra Ecologia. Using mainly silk, wool tops, felting techniques and eucalpytus dye from leaves in my own backyard, over five days I was able to create this amazing piece (excuse the pins - still a work in progress!). It was based on an idea I had from a Leonard Cohen song and is called "these rags of light".

You'll see there's crochet!!!

x Granny Funk