Time to Felt the Roses

First was the name, it had be catchy and describe what we were about, it started out as "share crafty', which summed up cooperative nature of what we were about, how ever it was pointed out to me , not so delicately by my mother in law that this was "naf". I could have sulked and vowed to trip her up next time she was trotting down to My op shop, however she redeemed herself and after a couple of lattes came up with the name "Crafte Latte" .

Thanks to the clever workings of bloodygooddesign

whom put together the posters, created the logo, and designed the web site, and Rochelle from Wairarapa News we got the word out.

Today was the first day of Crafte latte, 12 ladies, booked into this prestigious first session, by the end of the morning we attracted 3 extra students whom will join us for our next Tuesday session .
Having the first class within the café was great, as you can tell from the photo we all
Ordered out lattes before launching into the task at hand, it wasn’t long before a dozen roses were completed.

Next week we will be knitting the leaves and sewing up the flowers, as will as picking the pattern for our knitted bags.

For the pattern and instructions of Carolyn's Cabbage Rose check out my craft blog:

cupboardluv blog

Because of the high demand, we have decided to have
an afternoon sessions 1.30-3.30 on Tuesday as will as the morning sessions. If you would like
to join in please email me HERE or ring
06 3795505 for bookings and material list.

"Oh Carterton OH Carterton how Beautful though Art!"

When I first moved to Carterton I was told that this town had more artists and crafts person per capita than any where in New Zealand .I cant remember if I really believed this at the time, this town had me at "giday"as for being the center of the artistic world, well that was just froth on my latte .
15 years on and I have noticed more of a surge in the artistic community, we do indeed seem to boast more than our fair share of the creative genius.
Why Carterton is attractive to the creative throng, perhaps if we took a poll , it might suggest the array of quirky second hand stores, so many fish and chip shops you would need to work out out in one of our 2 gyms, duality seems to be a quirky trait of this town. There was a time we had 2 cafe ole's, 2 Perrys secondhand stores and you guessed it 2 square cafes. But if you ask me what makes this town really special , I suggest you take a walk down the main road of Carterton late at night, illuminated by the street light Carterton is at its most seductive, there is something very sexy about a town that hasent been renovated to within an inch of its previous lives.
It was only the other day someone said to me that Carterton is shaping up to be another Greytown. That was enough to stop this born again Cartertonian dead in her tracks, luckily I was outside our purple fish and chip shop, facing our lovely family thrift shop , for the time being a least bless its "woolen felted socks" Carterton thank goodness has never lapsed into the slippery slope called "good Taste".