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reviewsShort films and fiction
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Haiku and short stories
clOse-upMacro photography, micro budget
createGrowing and sewing small, plus recipes for the little ones
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Features6 A few words Haiku inspired poetry
8 89 squAre feet the tumbleweed tiny House phenomenon
10 Closeup the photography of costume-making
reviews16 330 words flash fiction online
23 And otHer stories Book and short stories reviews
24 sHort feAture short films reviewed
inspiratiOn26 one BAlCony Gardening in a small space
30 foCAl point A small photography project
40 sometHinG for tHe smAlls recipes for children
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Hello and welcome to issue 2 of Cassiopeia. this time our theme is small. small it seems is practical, environmental, attractive and entertaining. you’ll be amazed what can be achieved with only 89 square feet, 3 ingredients or 17 syllables. our dainty offerings include a glimpse into the world of tiny houses, a guide to gardening in miniature and a selection of recipes for smaller people. thanks on a much larger scale are due to all our contributors for making this issue possible. if you’re interested in playing your own small part in the next issue please email us at submit@cassiopeiamagazine.co.uk.
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edd Caine is a composer and musician currently studying for a phd in music Composition. when he’s not composing he likes to write poetry and sing very deep notes. www.edwardcaine.com
lachlan young is a portrait, commercial and fine art photographer based in york who is available for hire to shoot most things apart from weddings. lachlanphoto.tumblr.com
sarah peploe was born in norwich in 1986. she loves to write, read, draw, and maintain vituperative inner monologues while going about her business. she lives in york with a lovely man and a freecycled selmer organ.
owain paciuszko writes waffle for a bunch of websites, makes short films and music videos for his own amusement and plays keyboards/’sings’ in a band. He grew up in Cornwall, studied in wales and currently lives in london. when he grows up he wants to be a space captain. quackspout.blogspot.com
rachel Backa is a (currently) out-of-work medievalist and recent york graduate who resides in Canada. she has an odd fascination with hedgehogs and a newly-found love of vintage radio dramas. she thinks baking is the perfect form of both stress-relief and procrastination, and looks for any excuse to try something new.
Cynthia J. krieger is a linguist, medievalist and musician. in her free time she reads as much as she can, plays the piano and usually (unless it’s for biscuits) stays well away from the kitchen. she is currently establishing herself as an english to German translator. kriegertranslations.co.uk
Andraea Zambakides is medievalist and dancer living in Bristol. she likes classical music, cross-stitching, baking, dancesport, research, art, blogging and hugs.
ehren mierau is an over-educated, under-employed American with interests in medieval liturgy, museum collections management and kittens. He currently lives in Chichester but, as nice as it is, longs someday to return to york.
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waltzing blooms sprung upmy feet jumped on the hard earthin fierce thought contrast
brambles drooped on thorny offering, high upfrom my bleeding lips
on the searing paththrough distortion a figureglimpsing a mirage
dust covers my kneesand stumbling on a beatawakens my thoughts
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as a child Jay shafer was unfamiliar with the concept of small living. in fact he was brought
up in a house over 4 thousand square feet in size. He and his sister were given the job of cleaning the family home, so it comes perhaps as little surprise that Jay decided that he would rather live small. As an adult he worked as a grocery store clerk, and found the price of living prohibitively high. with no construction experience to speak of he decided to design and build his own home, small enough to clean quickly and heat cheaply. in 1997 he achieved his goal. His new home was only 89 square feet, less than a tenth the size of the average American home. it was fitted with wheels so he could move it around like a trailer, and he called it the
tumbleweed. interest in Jay’s creation snowballed, and Jay began to design small houses for other people to build. the tumbleweed tiny House Company now sells a range of plans, kits and ready built tiny houses, from the minuscule Xs (only 65 square feet) to the generous 3 bedroom enesti (843 square feet).
the ‘small living’ ideal has found favour both with the environmentally conscious, and with those looking for an alternative to crippling mortgage repayments. in tough economic times it’s reassuring to know that a home large enough for 2 people can be bought for as little as $99, even if assembly is required. tiny houses like those made by the tumbleweed tiny House Company challenge us to imagine house much of
our living space is necessary, and how much of our energy is wasted storing, heating or cleaning unused objects. for more on the tiny house movement visit http://tinyhouseblog.com/
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maybe it’s because i’m such a chronic procrastinator and unfinisher, but i’ve got a lot of time for flash fiction, as both means and end. i like that the medium’s brevity compels the writer to get
on with it - in such a confined space you’re less inclined to fart around pretending you’re having A Creative process - and i like what that immediacy brings to the final product. 330 words is a great platform for these punchy and potent short-short stories. the website’s conceit is simple: take - or find - a photo, base a story on it of no longer than 330 words, submit both. paradoxically, the limits of a single image combined with a tight word count throw up a huge variation of subjects and approaches, running the gamut from whimsical to brutal. you’ll find magical realism inside an inadvertently captured pocket, the very depths of Hell in a snap of the racing post, a funny, poignant encounter with a drunk in the tessellation of the pavement and much more, in this ever-growing anthology of small wonders.
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Bile Beans
written by sarah peploe
i asked. i was really curious otherwise i wouldn’t’ve. Any question or turn of phrase can set someone
off, make them think on their loss, make them sad and then furious. But he seemed safe enough. He’d given me water and half a packet of rich tea and it hadn’t cost me much. Bile Beans, he told me, were a popular brand of laxative. is that how they lived, those coiffed and streamlined broads people
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used to emulate at burlesque nights? eat stodge by day, take Bile Beans by night, crap yourself feminine first thing in the morning, repeat?
i’d first seen it walking up the road from malton, though it hadn’t been the first thing to grab my attention. there was an upturned truck on the road like a carcass. picked clean, i looked. they’d taken everything except the driver. other things had gone for him. A while ago. i turned away from
that and there it was, a yellowy promise from last century.
i had also walked past one from what was our time, an hour or two beforehand. Just a charred paper palimpsest, the edges and strips of all the posters that the billboard had held, peeking out one on top of the other. A depilated limb, a puppy’s eyes, the sleek screen of something new, old now. impossibly old, more dim and distant than Bile Beans could ever be. i used to have one
of the new thing. i kept it for ages, long after understanding the thing became useless, and remembering it became pointless.
someone’ll tear the last scraps of those posters down for fuel. they’ll be gone, really and forever. And Bile Beans will still be there, at the rim of a silent city, pitching vitality to the dead.
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Jennifer eGan, eMerald city and otHer StorieS
at the heart of ‘emerald City and other stories’ is the midwestern American,
yearning to be somewhere else. China, Africa, mexico or the bright lights of new york. Businessmen flee their poor decisions, trophy wives are carried, almost without agency, over the borders of exotic countries, and children sneak out after dark to pursue their drunken adventures. egan’s real gift is for landscape. each story pulses with a distinctive sense of place. ‘why China?’ in particular works hard to convey the wonder and disgust that culture shock can deliver.
the stand-out in this collection is ‘sisters of the moon’, in which a group of fifteen year old girls try acid for the first time in 1970s san francisco. By removing herself from the trophy wives, the glistening sand, broken marriages, deceit and heat haze, egan finally touches on the reality that escapism is often neither effective nor beautiful.
perhaps, like the mouthfuls of burning tequila so readily downed by her characters, egan falls into a little to much repetition in this collection. the holiday must eventually end and the hangover begin.
albert caMuS, exile and tHe KinGdoM: StorieS
the first story in Camus’ collection ‘the Adulterous wife’ seems almost as if it could
be at home with Jennifer egan’s stories. we follow the wife of a travelling salesman into the desert to where her husband trades fabrics with shop owners. the wife’s estrangement from her husband combined with her alienation in a foreign land gives rise to the ‘exile’ of the collection’s title, but the sand that obscures the horizon is not the beach-sand of an exotic holiday, it is the vast and hostile force of the desert. Already the collections have diverged. where egan’s characters chose their escapism Camus’ are forced into exile. missionaries, teachers and engineers take work far from home and lose themselves in dangerous and intoxicating landscapes. the threat of death or torture hangs over these lost individuals.
Camus’ themes are, as ever, breathtakingly varied. ‘the renegade or A Confused mind’ explores religious exile, ‘Jonas’ a self-imposed exile. within ear-shot of his wife and young children and artist locks himself in the attic in pursuit of artistic inspiration. each story plunges the reader into a unique and vividly imagined universe. As a final flourish Camus’ closing story ‘the Growing stone’ actively exiles the reader. An engineer named d’Arrast carries us through Brazil to the tiny town of iguape in são paulo. the frantic pace of his journey, his visible confusion in the alien country and the whirlwind of nationalities and languages are all parts in this perfect machine of dislocation. Camus’ pithy portraits of exiles demonstrate his mastery of place, but this is perhaps the least of his talents.
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My doctor prescribed me a book. yes, a book! even though i was told that it was
all about different kinds of love, the true theme is the strong relationship between a sister and a brother. other themes included starting again, loneliness and silent violence, with actual historical events as the backdrop.
the story is split into two parts; first elly as a girl, then elly as a woman. she is the narrator, and as i read, each of her inquisitive words, i could hear her voice speak in my head. As a girl, she is innocent, curious, and aware,. Her love is her pet rabbit named God, who seems to speak to her, thus showing her imagination.
this is the most enjoyable part that makes you keep reading. As an adult, she becomes repressed, secretive, and subtle. many of her childhood experiences give cause for darkness later. i often had to refer to earlier parts of the book to make sure that i understood the novel completely! the genre is hard to describe, as it is a rather dark, and delicate.
A fragile, subtle, and confusing book, at the best of times. it is a worthwhile read, if you like to take time to read, to process it intimately, and to challenge your understanding.
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t he short film has a tough life, often over-looked by audiences at large. A lot of shorts wind up being ‘expanded’ into feature length films, whilst this
does often bring a larger audience to the story, some shorts don’t quite stretch to an extended running time. for example, compared to the breakneck trilogy of shorts that preceded it, wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the were-rabbit is a little thin on thrills compared to, say, the wrong trousers and it’s brilliantly, tightly constructed plot. However, there are plenty of short films that have spawned rather wonderful features, maybe you weren’t even aware of their ‘humble’ beginnings, so here are a handful of shorts that wound up becoming longs...
speaking of ‘long’, paul thomas Anderson originally gathered together a bunch of his friends to make the short film ‘the dirk diggler story’ which later became his second feature film ‘Boogie nights’. designed as a spoof
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mockumentary based upon a real doc about John Holmes, the film contains the seeds of the ideas would crop up in the feature.
similarly sam raimi and some buddies cobbled together their short ‘within the woods’ in 1978, it became the basis of raimi’s debut feature ‘the evil dead’, a cult classic caught up in the video nasty controversy, that ultimately bore two superior (in my opinion) sequels that turned the gory horror tropes of the original on their head thanks to a bonkers sense of humour and the magnificent ham of Bruce Campbell.
not all shorts get adapted by their original directors, screenwriters david and Janet peoples took Chris marker’s experimental ‘la Jetee’ and twisted it into terry Gilliam’s magnificent ‘12 monkeys’. using the film’s sci-fi time travel pandemic concept and creating one of the most commendably nutty studio pictures of the 1990s.
neill Blomkamp was all set to make his directorial dèbut an adaptation of the video-game ‘Halo’, but the studio baulked at the potential $250 million budget, so Blomkamp (urged on by producer peter Jackson) turned his gritty sci-fi short ‘Alive in Joburg’ into the masterful ‘district 9’. undoubtedly one of the finest directorial débuts of all time and a truly brilliant, comical, tragic and schlocky sci-fi treat, it’s almost a relief that the studio got cold feet.
sometimes though it’s success that brings a filmmaker back to their early works, tim Burton has decided to remake his 1984 live-action short ‘frankenweenie’ into a stop-motion 3d animated feature that comes out in time for Halloween 2012. Hopefully it’ll be a return to his quirkier, darker roots and a welcome break
from another Johnny depp vehicle.Alongside that and the aforementioned
wallace & Gromit, animated shorts have been a good proving ground for filmmakers, sylvain Chomet’s short the old lady & the pigeons saw him developing some of the characters that would later populate Belleville rendezvous, though the plots of the two films couldn’t be more different. Beavis & Butthead creator mike Judge turned his quirky short milton into the cult classic office space, the plot of that film using stephen root’s brilliant portrayal of the short’s titular character as a brilliant aside from the feature’s tale of workplace malaise.
i used to work for a short film company in Central london and whilst there i saw a handful of films called ‘panique Au village’. these demented and hilarious little films are probably most well known as adverts for milk, but they latterly became the totally manic and utterly hilarious feature ‘A town Called panic’.
finally, wes Anderson got the funding to make his dèbut feature ‘Bottle rocket’ by making a short of the same name, both starring owen and luke wilson. Anderson has continued to play with the short film format, releasing ‘Hotel Chevalier’ alongside ‘the darjeeling limited’ and a series of animated shorts to accompany ‘moonrise kingdom’.
the short film is a great proving ground for a lot of filmmakers, but it’s a shame it’s not as widely appreciated as features, whilst there are plenty of good short film events and festivals, it would be nice to see more shorts screened in mainstream cinemas as a nice little prologue.
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t he shippam street windowsill garden started life in a rather inauspicious manner - with a miniature “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” planter from the British
museum, complete with what can only have been defective seeds. it did, however, directly lead to the garden’s further development; upon realising that the manufacturer’s estimated time to visible plant growth was nearly two months, we grew impatient and decided that we needed vegetation which promised more immediate action.
our flat has a south facing sitting room with large windows, but not a proper balcony. mark and i searched high and low at Homebase to find planter baskets which could be hung over the railing but didn’t see anything suitable, so instead we bought some small terracotta pots which we expected to fit on the outside ledge. (they didn’t.) fortunately the windowsill is more than wide enough to accommodate some small potted residents, so we bought some propagator trays and cautiously
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planted some coriander, parsley, rosemary, thyme, basil, tomatoes and cucumbers. with the appearance of every new speck of green i grew increasingly obsessed, until finally in a fit of madness i galloped through the aisles of Homebase, shovelling seed packets and excessively large planter bags into my shopping basket. soon every spare inch of our little windowsill was crammed full of plants and some of the pots were even forced to retreat to the bedroom window.
Considering the fact that we planted everything at least a couple of months past the ideal time, we were more successful than we had any right to be. with that said, it was clear that some plants take better to these living conditions than others. the herbs, of course, were (mostly) predestined to thrive, although we did run into problems with our grown-from-seed rosemary, which is apparently much hardier when grown from clippings. the real surprise was the triumph of the cucumber plants, which germinated instantly and then swiftly developed into ravenous water-guzzling monstrosities which threatened to engulf the nearest armchair and, from there, the entire world. until we provided them with some climbing poles (which they largely ignored) we actually feared sitting in that chair lest they should entwine their little tendrils into our hair. unfortunately this particular variety requires pollination, so even though they flowered with gusto we didn’t get any viable cucumbers.
But the windowsill garden champion is undoubtedly the valiant wild strawberry which mark’s mother sent to us through the post as a fragile seedling with its single root wrapped in moist
kitchen roll and stuffed in a small plastic tube for safe transport. we frankly doubted whether it
would survive replanting, but our prosperous little green friend has not only cheerfully grown new leaves on an exceedingly regular basis but also obligingly presented
me with two (admittedly tiny) strawberries. not all has been sunshine and rainbows,
however; we have also been compelled to share our flat with maddening swarms of fungus gnats. these little devils look similar
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irritation to their human cohabitants, but their larvae live in potting soil and feed on the roots of plants, which can cause significant damage. Crowded conditions help to complicate the problem, so reluctantly we thinned the population, clipping any of the useable herbs before binning them and the increasingly woebegone vegetables. Having also spent many of my unemployed hours trying to hunt down and squash every last fly, i then travelled to Germany to ring in the new year, confident in the insects’ eradication. upon returning, i spent
a blissful month enjoying my fly-free flat before reclaiming the three remaining plants from their caretaker. needless to say, when i woke up the next morning i was horrified to find a fresh horde of gnats which had enjoyed their holiday away but were as ready to come home as i was.
with our flat now liberally adorned with yellow sticky traps and my bottle of organic insecticide at the ready, it’s now time to begin planting anew. the herbs will definitely be back, but who knows what might arrive in the post from mark’s parents... eHren mierAu
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s o you’ve got a nice new camera with an interchangable lens, maybe an slr,
maybe a new mirrorless body, and of course this means you have no money left for a decent macro lens... what do you do? well for around £30 you can produce the images you’ve just seen over the last few pages!
i first came across this method after seeing an incredible picture of a spiders eye. it transpired that the photographer used his standard 50mm portrait lens attached to his dslr using a series of tubes and adaptors. the principle is that the further the lens is from the sensor the closer the focal point will be to the lens. extension tube can be found on eBay for all makes and models of camera starting from around £8. you may need adapters to fit your lens to the tube, these cost pennies.
so this method is simple and cheap right? well there are a few disadvantages you
have to deal with when using extension tubes.1) with the lens separated from the body it’s likely your camera will not automatically focus on it’s subject. you’ll need an older manual focus lens. i picked up a Canon fd 50mm for £20.2) exposures will have to be longer to compensate for the fact that less light will reach the sensor due to the tube.you’ll need a steady hand or an extra bright light source.3) the closer you get the focal point to the lens the narrower your depth of field will become. this means that the area even a couple of millimeters from the focal point will look blurred.use this to artistic effect.
the fun really comes from experimenting with different setting and shooting in varied environments. i’m still chasing the illusive spider’s eyes! enjoy.
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camera phone and the best thing about this method is it’s free!
the small size of the camera phone lens means that a small change can make a massive differents to it ability to take pics. in
this case we are using a single droplet of water.
Just touch your wet finger onto the lens to allow the surface tension to form a lens. it may be a little blurry around the edges but the photos achived are suprisingly sharp!
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i have the cutest niece and nephew in the entire world. even though they
may be roughly 1500 kilometres away from me most days, that doesn’t mean i don’t make plans for fun things to do and share with them the next time i see them. Baking is one of those things that’s very fun to do with small children. it may be messy, it may take eight times as long as you want it to, but it’s always great to see how excited they get when they realise that not only are they going to do something fun, there will be dessert at the end of it. so, here are two recipes that are going to be busted out the next time i’m visiting family. the first is a much-loved recipe from my own childhood, the second something new to me.
the best thing about this dessert is it’s lack of superfluous dishes to wash. everything can be done in a single bowl. in fact, if you’re not using a non-stick pan, you can mix everything in your baking vessel. the cake is good all on it’s own and the extra candy and decorative touches are optional, but well worth the effort. the cake recipe is vegan, but the end result may change depending on what you add to it.
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whisk, until the batter’s
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dispatch into a bundt or
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Bake at 350 degrees
fahrenheit/ gas mark 4 for
about 55 minutes. Check it
at 40 minutes, since some
ovens are more reliable with
their heat cycles than others.
one it has cooled, remove
from the pan and cut in half.
set one half upright, so it
forms an arch on a plate.
you can either place the
second half behind it, to get
a very thick arch, or dispose
of it in some other way. i
recommend a small slice as
a reward for the help, since
they’ve been very patient up
until this point, and there’s
still some work to be done.
or feed them carrot sticks
and hide it away for later. i
won’t judge.
slather your arch with your
favourite thick icing. then
decorate it in a rainbow-like
manner using your favourite
colourful candy.
this cake may be time-
consuming, but every step
is simple and child-friendly.
depending on how old
they are, the child could do
everything but transferring it
to and from the hot oven.
extremely QuiCk and easy peanut Butter Cookie
these peanut butter cookies take simplicity to the next level. i don’t
know where the original recipe’s from, but i’ve been seeing it all over and figured it was time to give it a go. three ingredients. i didn’t even know you could do cookies like that. Consider my mind blown. with a baking time of ten minutes, the most time-consuming part of the whole process is waiting for the oven to heat up. Also, since they lack flour, these cookies are good for the gluten-free crowd, and also cut down on mess (i don’t know about you, but i always manage to get flour everywhere. Generally when i’ve just cleaned the kitchen and am wearing dark clothes.)
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1 Cup peAnut Butter
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degrees fahrenheit/ gas
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mix all the ingredients
together into a thick paste.
portion out into about two
tablespoon balls. place
on cookie sheet and press
down with a fork to make
nifty designs. Be sure to
leave an in or two between
cookies, as they will puff
up and spread out during
the cooking process.
Bake for ten minutes. let
them set for a few minutes
before transferring them to
a wire rack to finish cooling.
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straight, or, if you want to
do more fun things, i have
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150G self-rAisinG flour
250G Cornflour
100G iCinG suGAr
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300G unsAlted Butter
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preparation:
1. mix flour, cornflour, icing
sugar, salt and vanilla sugar
with a spoon in a large bowl.
2. Add the butter in flakes.
this can take up to half an
hour depending on how hard
the butter is!
3. mix until crumby with
a hand mixer. this will be
messy ñ prepare to clean
your whole kitchen of flour
dust afterwards! then knead
this crumby dough into a
smooth batter.
4. put the batter into the
fridge for at least 1 hour.
5. preheat your oven to 180˚c
6. form little balls on a baking
tray lined with greaseproof
paper. make sure you leave
enough space between the
balls as the dough will rise
and the biscuits will grow in
the oven. make a pattern in
the balls by pressing them in
with a fork.
7. put the tray in the pre-
heated oven and bake for 10-
12 minutes without browning.
8. take the tray out of the
oven and put it somewhere
to cool off. do not try to
pick the biscuits off the tray
straight away as they are very
brittle and will break if they
are still hot.
enjoy!
CyntHiA krieGer
reciPeS
snoWFlake BisCuits
these biscuits were my favourites as a child. they
are sweet as sin and as unhealthy as they taste, turn to dust in your mouth and are unforgivably addictive. snowflake Biscuits were made exclusively by my great-grandmother until the year she died – only then was the recipe passed on to me.
Beware: these biscuits are incredibly messy to make (and thus even more fun!) you’re dealing with lots of butter on your hands, flour dust everywhere and a reasonably sticky dough. Children (and, of course, childish adults like me) who help during the making of snowflakes will therefore enjoy even the work stage.
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a little craft project for a tiny issue. this pendant can
be made using the little white buttons that always seem to come with sewing kits, the kind that go missing from the cuffs of white shirts. Add a strip of black felt and some
colourful beads and you’ll have a tiny sushi roll that makes a big
fashion statement.
craft tutorial
teeny tiny sushi pendant
you will need:
2 wHite Buttons
A sCrAp of BlACk
felt 2Cm X 12Cm
6-8 seed BeAds in
BriGHt Colours
A metAl CHAin or
leAtHer Cord
1. roll up the strip of felt as you
would a sheet of nori. secure
by sewing the open edge
to the side of the roll with a
blanket stitch in black thread.
2. next add your rice. place a
button on either end of the roll
and sew into place with white
thread by passing your needle
down the length of the roll
and through the other side.
3. repeat, and as you do so
thread one or two seed beads
at a time to your needle. pull
the thread tightly and tie off.
4. finally sew your chain or
leather cord into place using
black thread.
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