Travelling mafia update - Sydney

The airport is huge! Brought presents for people and a clean t-shirt for me as I have just had a shower in an airport such a novel experience feel much better and more awake and ready to face my next flight... Also enjoying the food in the business lounge they have lots of tasty things including mini shepherds pies and mini kievs and lots of lattes nom!

The ScrapBook

Marie recently left the folds of Scotland and the Mafia and moved to Germany as such we created her a Scrapbook. There is a Kitteh on everypage can you spot it?

The Front Cover

Mafia HQ

The GradBall

Mafia Activity

The Street Party

The Mafia

Dress Making

The workgroup

The Food and Drink

There will be some more pages made up in the future of more recent activities before it wings it way back to Germany as a constant reminder of the madness that is the Mafia. It is also the beginning to why the blog exists. So that we can update Marie about all that we're up to.

Tales from the travelling Mafia - Here St Andrews is worse than Dairsie FACT!

So my title kinda says it all that was learnt by the coach journey today. I'm going on a mission to get a book tomorrow so we can have a NZ edition of out mafia book.
Had an awesome host at the B&B I stayed in last night who gave me a tour of Christchurch although most of it is still very much earthquake damaged. There are lots of buildings that have just been left as was after the earthquake including a restaurant where all the place settings were left! Was rather eerie in its own way. Most of the shops now are in shipping containers in an area known as the pop up mall it's actually kind of cool in looking forward to going on another look when I'm back there and to see the recycled stuff fashion. Will give me new project ideas!
Here are some pictures from the very bumpy flight into New Zealand which reminds me YouTube air new Zealand inflight safety video it's hilarious, that one totally took me by surprise.

Miss you all

Mafia History: Member Profiles Lucy

Oh hai.

First Sewing Project:  Kasun's cushions (there were many previous projects which I can't recall)

Strangest thing I've made: Slutty monster cushion

Favourite thing I've made: Graduation Ball skirt

Current Project List: Tetris cushions, tartan trousers, tartan cravat, penguin outfit, more woollen underwear, portal cushions

Last Project: Slutty monster cushion

Strange Quirks: Where do I begin.  Addiction to tartan.  Too many others to note.

First Knitting Project: Scarf for my teddy bear when I was 5

Maddest Knitting Project: Knitting a bag from carrier bags.

Favourite Plane: A-10!!!!

Favourite Cat: Doctor CAT. MD.

Favourite Chemical: Glucosamine.  NOT.

Favourite Town comparable to Dairsie: Ceres

Favourite book: Joining the Cupar Mafia

Favourite Song: RUN TO THE HILLS, My Lovely Horse

Additional comments: Insane, takes after her academic mother so that's no surprise, tendency to meow and hiccup inexplicably.  

Tales from a travelling mafia...I have no idea just lots of planes

Hello!!!
I'm currently in Sydney. You may ask what am I doing here! Well here goes.
As Jacks knows at 10:30 on Tuesday I was sat on the tarmac at Heathrow with plane problems. 2 hours later we take off. Now my connection time in Singapore was an hour so guess what I missed my plane. So in order to not give us hotel funds for the night they decided to reroute us through Sydney to get the 7:30am local plane to Christchurch. So... We were rushed through Singapore to the Sydney flight but that was then delayed while they moved the bags across so we were late to Sydney and missed that connection. Too so now I'm here in Australia will have to send you extra postcard abuse! And now for some photos.
The only compensation is that I'm sat in the business lounge with free Gin!!!!

Mafia History: Member Profiles Becca

So that's me. I hate having photos done so you might not see me very often.

First Sewing Project: A pair of trousers when I was 16 or so 

Strangest thing I've made: Probably the man thong out of curtain scraps

Favourite thing I've made: Portal Cushions for the Boyf

Current Project List: (It's about millions of miles long) but when I get back off my travels it will be time to make the Tudor Dress.

Last Project: Pink monster cushions for my sister

Strange Quirks: I collect the aliens from Toy Story and probably have over 200 so far. I also own about 200 meters of unused fabric, and 3 sewing machines. I also have a fascination with medieval reinactment mostly the clothes and making them and the feasts.

First Knitting Project: A scarf for my sister

Maddest Knitting Project: The woollen underwear

Favourite Plane: B52 (but it changes)

Favourite Cat: Maru

Favourite Chemical: Caffeine

Favourite Town comparable to Dairsie:  Drum

Favourite book: H2G2

Favourite Song: For all intent and porpoises it has to be Run to the Hills.  Mafia HO!

Additional comments: Driver of the Mafiamobile, bringer of the croissants and olive bread, tamer of the robot.

Tales from the travelling mafia. Flying

I feel like a moron I have joined the giant headphone brigade but at least I have my new headphone hoody to match I could be listening to millions of things at one. Well it's nearly slow torture time known as sitting on a plane for longer than I care to imagine. One small consolation is I won't have to listen to the Ryanair gibberish that might kill me :(.
Missing you already!!!

Mafia History: Cushioning Part I

The mafia loves Ikea as such we go on Ikea convoys but that's another story and not that entertaining so we won't worry about it now. But in Ikea they sell cushions and the Mafia does love a good cushion. To that end and one point we brought back the cheap Ikea cushion pads ready to cover.

Probably one of the easiest things to sew are cushions a nice square straight line perfect for training. So we began making cushion covers in training for the epic sewing session of epicness (See Mafia fashions part I).

As we ran out of cushion pads so the cushioning stopped or so we thought.

We were commissioned to make some curtains for a friend of ours and while we were there Reme's mother asked us to turn some old pillows into cushions for Reme. So one of the stranger weekends of the Mafia happened. More to the point a new art of cushioning making inners as well as covers started.

The beautiful mafia curtains and cushions.

So we branched out. The world was our cushiony oyster. Our next commission came from Fergus. A full Isle of Skye tartan cushion set.

There are only a limited number of old pillows in any persons life as such the shredding of duvets are vital. It works out much cheaper than buying on the roll stuffing and so we get to have many hours of duvet shredding.

The Duvet

Shredding the duvet.

What happens when you shred a full duvet

The inners for the Fergus Cushion

 What happens if you leave a mafia with a room full of fluff

Cutting out the cushions

Full range of cushion cover parts

Sewing time with donkey (the machine not Jacks!!!)

(Finish product to appear later)

So this is the beginning of the cushiony adventure more to follow with epic tales of the monster cushions and Kasun's cushions.

Mafia Board 23/01/12

This week Matt decided on the board content. He is very inventive.

Mafia Travel Day 3- I made a rage!

Becca's Art

First there were the stick men inspired by: http://www.drawastickman.com/ (CLICK IT if you've not done so already it's awesome!)

LHS by Saffy RHS by Becca note that Saffy's only ended up with a boater and a balloon after she saw Becca's had a top hat and bow tie

Then on a drawing mission Becca drew Catface based on the popular toon from Weebls Stuff.

Also not forgetting her lovely art from the painting project: