Crafter's Corner

What a fantastic bargain @Jungle Jane , it looks great.

 

Ah thats brilliant Jane

I see mr potato head is on quality control inspection

 

Indeed. The frown on his face shows you the state of my sewing.

 

That's beautiful Mrs. Shiney. Flower arranging is something I've never had the patience for.

 

I really love this idea, @Dips . Wondering whether we should start it up over here? Could you send me a link, and maybe the pattern for those lovely hearts?

 

Working on the Christmas shop display for the charity shop I now volunteer at. Here's how it looks so far.

 

Of course i can :-)

Here is the link to the project. You need to message them to get the tags. You can only use their approved quotes in the tags.

https://www.facebook.com/ThePeytonHeartProject

And here is the heart pattern i used

http://www.maggiescrochet.com/pages/small-heart-free-crochet-pattern

 

They look brill. Cant wait to see the display when its completed :-)

 

Here's how it looked on thursday

 

I have just finished my bros xmas prezzie i have made him some dinosaur jars

Its taken several weeks of spray painting but now they are done. I have some dinosaur paperclips and chocolate eggs coming that i will fill the jars with.

 

The chocolate eggs arrived just now and the jars look a lot better filled. The smallest one will be filled with the paper clips

 

and here is the latest winter collection for your chicken...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mer-battery-hens-struggling-used-outside.html

 

chicken waistcoat: instruction
http://www.hencam.co.uk/hencam_forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=414

 

@Joolz it's more than a decade since my bobbins saw daylight but I won't part with them should I decide to take it up again. Please excuse some of the focusing.

My box, actually a fishing tackle box storing everything I need. I have approximately 150 bobbins most of which are wood.


Spare beads, none of which are plastic because they function as weights for the bobbins and hang on brass wire from the base of the bobbing to keep the thread taut. That weight is called a spangle. Some of these beads are hand painted.


A small selection of bobbins with spangles attached, all in various types of wood.


A standard cushion that I was taught to make at evening classes, it's stuffed very tightly with straw. When the bobbins are 'working' they would be hanging close to the edge of the cushion and it's possible to have more than a hundred working together. Lacemaker's would know each and every bobbin and where they would be placed during the process of creating a piece of work.


Some of the bobbins in my box.


Gimp bobbins.....these are used without spangles and used to weave a heavier thread through the lace.


The only piece of work I possess and probably what you wasn't expecting to see as a piece of lace. There are different types of lace bearing different names, some of which are heavier than others.


From here on all the pieces are practice pieces and worked during the time I was being taught. Colours were used for experimental purposes.

Torchon Lace - the simplest to work.




Another post to follow......