What crafts projects are YOU working on this Winter? Hhhhmmmm......
I stenciled boards and mounted candle wall sconces on them for that rustic-primitive look.
Screwed bar handles into a piece of left over granite. Glued little rubber feet on the bottom. I might set perfume bottles on it....or...a cheese ball....
The double pin striping just arrived for the vault door I'm decorating.
What are YOU ALL crafting?
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Comments (15)Ken, the yellow weeper is 'Boyko's Sundown'. Some are more golden then others, this one I hand picked because it had such great bright splotches. It also seemed fairly narrow which is good considering it's spot! As for the property line, this is probably the best aspect of my piece of earth, it's both vague *and* heavily forested. I am next to a corner lot(their backyard extends to my left side yard) and there is a greenbelt behind me for about 150 yards. It has been designated native habitat by the county and thus without serious zoning changes can never be developed. Most of the large, existing trees on my property are huge already. There are hundreds of doug-firs exceeding 50' and many well over 100' tall with the only thing visible to the gardener or visitor are the elephant trunks shooting upwards. A few of my younger doug-firs out front are about 10-15 years old and still have limbs to the ground. These are what I mean I will slowly trim up, exposing new spaces for conifers that take some shade or part shade. Dougs grow like *crazy* here, so in 15-20 years I'll be surrounded skyward by plants exceeding 150' at which point the only problem will be trees dumping branches and needles in storms and the occasional large tree coming down(a scary thing indeed). Long term, many of the plants that it becomes apparent will be much too big to stay will end up in the local botanical garden which I am helping to design. Almost 100 acres of space, over half undeveloped so there should be plenty of space for these trees to settle in for the long haul. We've worked out a nominal trade/price of about $5 cash/$10 trade per year per plant. Not a lot of money, but that's not the point anyways. Finally, I *welcome* the day I run out of space. It'll be good on my back, budget and nice to know I have a 'complete' garden, with plants that are really nice to have around. Two or three years, I'd guess! -Will...See Morewhat I have been working on, sorta crafting
Comments (11)That's really nice. :) I have always wanted a pond but I don't know where to start and really where I would put it, there is no outlet nearby. So DH and I have just built a dry pond and river bed in the back yard where a spring comes up out of the ground when we get enough rain. This area is at least damp most times and during a really good downpour, I actually have a flowing creek! We're working on widening the stream right now because we didnt make it wide enough to begin with. We also need to add more stone because it's not deep enough and we used too small of pebbles so I have had troubles with it. I did more research and just moved new plants over on the wet side that can handle the wet. It's a constant work in progress and it's not even a real pond. I don't know what I would do if it was! LOL Enjoy all that hard work!...See MoreSummer Craft Projects
Comments (15)Like Tami, I am always knitting (and crocheting). I am teaching a friend to crochet and helping her advance her knitting skills. We meet once a week for an evening and she "pays" me by cooking me an authentic Indian meal and sends me home with leftovers for lunch the next day. I also have a monstrous quilt at the sewing machine now that I am doing the final quilting on. My grandson is now almost 16 years old and nearly 6 feet 2 inches tall. I want him to be able to really wrap up in it, so it is 6 feet wide and 7 feet 4 inches long. I don't have a long-arm machine, so it is quite a struggle maneuvering that thing through the throat of my machine. But I love him and am happy to do it. I expect it to take another month, then I have to start another for his little brother. No idea if he'll be as tall as his big brother, so I will make his quilt the same size. And I've purchased several patterns and more fabric and hope to get a few summer dresses made for my 7 month-old granddaughter. I haven't made little girl dresses in a very long time and I'm really excited to try my hand at it again. Oh, and my order of ground walnut shells just came yesterday. I'm going to make pincushions that become part of the lids on tiny canning jars. Saw it on Pinterest and decided I had to give it a try....See More'Tis the season to be crafting. (Got any projects going?)
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socks
5 years agoFinishing hitchhiker scarf. I love the colors on the skein, sort of southwestern, but was surprised at how stripey it works up. Not sure what I was expecting!
Wonderful projects everyone!
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5 years agoRug hooking is still my #1 craft. Last week I finished a nautilus chair pad, and immediately got to work binding the edge with yarn. This was a big deal for me because I have a long history of procrastinating about edge finishing. I was so pleased with the result that I bound the edge of another round mat that I hooked a couple of years ago. (See what I mean about procrastination?)
Unfortunately, all the close work with the yarn and a very long sharp needle while wearing dollar-store reading glasses gave me some serious eye strain and a headache, so my next project will have to wait until I get some prescription glasses.
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5 years agoI have been making some bowling towels for door prizes at our banquet. I buy a large bath towel, cut it into smaller towels and then finish the edges with my serger and do some embroidery on each one.
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5 years agoI finally took a couple of pictures. Here is the blue yarn, scarf in progress, and then the red, is the finished scarf that I made a long time ago (mine), that Esther admired, which is why she is going to get the blue scarf. :)
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoAw, thanks for remembering, Socks! Yes, that rug is my favorite of all the pieces I've hooked.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoSo much skill and talent is on display here. I cant help but think how much fun we could have doing a craft show together! Seeing all of your beautiful work has me wanting to post pics too!
This what I am working on at the moment - fall leaf preserved in resin and paper beads will become a necklace:
These are my most recently completed pieces. Some of you have seen them posted on the daily photo thread a couple of weeks ago:
These are not as recent, but they are one of my favorites. I picked up the shells during a morning walk on Imperial Beach near San Diego:
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I have knitted that pattern in to a blanket once apart of time, then in
to the scarf, and now, with the tiny size 3 needles in to another
scarf. I only have the pattern as a picture... It has about 250 stitches... cast on.nicole___ thanked OklaMoninicole___
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoIt's a little dusty, round circles on the photo, from all the sanding on the taping joints inside the vault...but the decor on the outside is complete. Or.....at least for now.
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5 years agoThat’s great Raven! Do you have a project in mind? Different projects will call for different sizes of both yarn and hook. Since you’re just starting, I’d go with the I or J hook first. That’s what I started a lady I’m teaching out with too and they were both easy sizes for her to work with. I wouldn’t go much larger than that because the bigger the hook, the larger your stitches will be and it can get messy. I also don’t care to use the bulkier thick yarns because they strain my hands after a while, but if that’s the route you want to try, the N hook is what the few patterns I’ve done have called for.
My favorite inexpensive go to yarn is Hobby Lobby’s I Love This Yarn. The skeins are a good size, there’s lots of colors and it’s a really soft cozy yarn. If you don’t have a Hobby Lobby close by, then something like Lion Brand’s Vanna’s Choice is a good option. I’ve bought that from Joann’s.
As for the hooks, you might notice that there are two different hook styles to choose from. One isn’t really much different than the other, I’ve used both in the past. I discovered these at Joann’s a while back and find them to be much more comfortable to work with because of the rubber wrap. They’re also longer than the standard hooks and I find them to be more comfortable in my hand.
The only other thing I would encourage you to buy at some point would be a little package of stitch markers as they can really come in handy.Do you have any questions from what you’ve watched already?
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I found this beautiful multi color yarn on one of the websites I was looking at. Would this kind of yarn be a good kind to try?
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5 years agoI'm working on a Christmas curtain to hang in a doorless doorway. I only work on it one day a week when my sewing buddy comes over. Figured I'd have it done by next Christmas, LO. I have started buying fabric to do a Thanksgiving one, too. But my next project will be a quilt for my youngest grandson. He's picked the colors and I've been designing a block. He's ten years old and his name is Exaiden. We often call him the "X man" and we wanted some X's in the design. I finally finished the design and layout yesterday. This week I'm making a test piece (a group of four blocks) to see if I'm happy with it or if I need to tweak it a bit. Here's the design:
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5 years agoI have been working on my rugs and doing a little bit of crocheting. I can't upload the pictures off of my camera, so I will show a picture of one of the first rugs I finished
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