Crafty Thread - what are you working on at the moment?
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nanook rubs it....
This has arrived and I plan to decorate it (sometime this year) as an Advent calendar box thingy. The boxes are smaller than I thought. Could fit maybe 2 ferrero rocher in each at a pinch , or earrings, lip balm etc... it's made of really thick 'cardboard'. What paint do I use to cover it first? Was thinking a white undercoat and then colour, but what type of paint?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
It's remarkably forgiving I found! Just slap it down, move it about, plenty of glue - it dries and looks amazin!
SheilaNaGig
Break requested
Hello Thread.
I admire all the things on here. In some other version of my life, I’m doing lots of crafty things.
I did make an abortive attempt at quilting some years ago becasue my now mostly dead American Granny and great aunts all made wonderful quilts. I’ve inherited one from my Granny that was made for her as a wedding gift by her sister, my Great Auntie Gail.
Anywaya, right now I’m in the States and I’m sleeping under a handmade quilt. I thought people’s would enjoy seeing it.
I admire all the things on here. In some other version of my life, I’m doing lots of crafty things.
I did make an abortive attempt at quilting some years ago becasue my now mostly dead American Granny and great aunts all made wonderful quilts. I’ve inherited one from my Granny that was made for her as a wedding gift by her sister, my Great Auntie Gail.
Anywaya, right now I’m in the States and I’m sleeping under a handmade quilt. I thought people’s would enjoy seeing it.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Wow, that is hard core handmade, no sewing machines involved, must have taken months!
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
That's a lovely quilt.
Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
Yep. It would. But then again if it was made pre telly it would have been worked on for hours every day.
I made a hand stitched quilt that was 3 ft x 4 ft. It was for a baby's cot. Only squares...but it was completely stitched by hand. Took me 2 months of sewing. Cutting and patterning the squares took me 2 weeks. I was using old cotton from shirts and offcuts.
It looked lovely when finished. Not so sure the person I gave it to appreciated it .. lol..
A very mixed bag of Christmas knitting, most of which has been given out so no pics. Insanely, I embarked on many pairs of gloves (managed 4 pairs more or less). Anyway, here are a couple of things I made after being in despair after yet another hat fail. My allotment hat - has beets, tomato, foliage and carrots, being modelled by a hideous bead stuffed 'dog' beloved of grand-daughter. Also, a couple of gloves for daughter in law (such a weird archaic title!)Baronage-Phase
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RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
I think it's fair enough to skip swatching on something small like a hat. You may as well just crack on with it.
But then I'll just be guessing again and I might get it wrong again. I kind of want to learn to swatch.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
AKA doing a tension square. Before you start knitting something, you do a test square which should come out at a stated number of stitches per 10cm, which will be in the pattern. If you have too many stitches you need to try again with larger needles, and vice versa.Wouldn't mind knowing what swatchin is before I feel compelled to have to learn it...
Trifling differences in the size of a tension square can lead to a jumper being wayyyy too big or too small.
Everyone refuses to swatch when they start knitting. Then they spend several months making something which turns out the wrong size and they bite the bullet.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
I've just started this, I've done a few sets of shelves so far. It's essentially a 2000-piece Kinder Surprise.
I estimate, judging on progress so far, that this project could take me at least until the end of my life, if not a little longer.
I thought about ordering one of those kits and decided that it would take more work than I was willing to do. Keep us updated. I'd love to see how it goes.
Thank you for this. I measured the hat before unpicking it and it was bang on gauge! I have managed to finish it tonight.
I have 3 (for shame) hats from this years knitting...and all of them are either too big, too small or just horrid - my allotment tam was my final despairing attempt...so yep, I have been swatching like mad since I am just about to start a Faroese/Estonian/Latvian mash-up jumper. I have been buying wool on cone since discovering some of my fave yarns (Mabel and Ivy, Holst Garn supersoft and Coast, Magasin Duette are actually repackaged generic types from Knoll spinners so a kilo of highland wool can be had for£30 and often even less. Holding the yarn double but still, an all over 3 colour stranded job on 2.75mm is going to be...testing. Still have numerous WIPs and I will be fighting the seasonal turnaround, when outdoors is far more enjoyable than the sofa (can see pink and grey Handmaiden tunic going over another year.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Orly? Where do you actually buy it from?
Wool on Cone has a lot, Ruby Toogood - Rennies Shetland stuff is good. The main agents for Knoll are Uppingham Yarns (who also do King Cole Merino in 500gr cones for £21). If you like Tweedy wool (Rowans felted tweed and the like, Kilcarra yarns are the main agents for Irish Donegal tweed - again easily bought in bulk. Even Jamieson and Smith and Jamiesons of Shetland, my main goto 4ply Shetland yarn for colourwork, sell 500gr for £28 - half the price of their 25gr balls. I have bought a few cones off Ebay too (just waiting on a bunch of Knoll lambswool for £4 from a charity shop (none of our real life charity shops ever seem to have decent yarn).
I admit I have gotten a tad disenchanted by the enormous amount of marketing and aspirational bullshit in the knitting scene. In no world is £200 an acceptable amount to cough up for enough yarn to knit a jumper...and as for sewing!!! I used to make my clothes and my children's because it was cheaper than buying them.. a laughable concept now.
I admit I have gotten a tad disenchanted by the enormous amount of marketing and aspirational bullshit in the knitting scene. In no world is £200 an acceptable amount to cough up for enough yarn to knit a jumper...and as for sewing!!! I used to make my clothes and my children's because it was cheaper than buying them.. a laughable concept now.
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Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Kinda crafty today. Found these in a charity shop for peeps wid dodgy tickers! Other charity shops are available. A box full of hand-painted ceramic KNOBS. Knobs for drawers. Mostly different styles, love em.
So I was originally thinking of a mad shabby chic dresser, patchwork pattern with mismatched knobs (yes, KNOBS!) but then I realised I won't see them very often, and I want to see them daily coz LOVE.
SO! Genius brainfart of the creative kind - put them in the kitchen where I can see them every day! I'm going to put another coat of the duck egg blue on the cupboards before I commit any more handles, but I can see much fun ahead in putting my favourite ones in the best of places.
So I've done three, got room for another 18!!
The whole tin of knobs cost me £12, which is pretty good going for to get such joy.
Did I mention knobs?
So I was originally thinking of a mad shabby chic dresser, patchwork pattern with mismatched knobs (yes, KNOBS!) but then I realised I won't see them very often, and I want to see them daily coz LOVE.
SO! Genius brainfart of the creative kind - put them in the kitchen where I can see them every day! I'm going to put another coat of the duck egg blue on the cupboards before I commit any more handles, but I can see much fun ahead in putting my favourite ones in the best of places.
So I've done three, got room for another 18!!
The whole tin of knobs cost me £12, which is pretty good going for to get such joy.
Did I mention knobs?
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Great find WookeyKinda crafty today. Found these in a charity shop for peeps wid dodgy tickers! Other charity shops are available. A box full of hand-painted ceramic KNOBS. Knobs for drawers. Mostly different styles, love em.
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So I was originally thinking of a mad shabby chic dresser, patchwork pattern with mismatched knobs (yes, KNOBS!) but then I realised I won't see them very often, and I want to see them daily coz LOVE.
SO! Genius brainfart of the creative kind - put them in the kitchen where I can see them every day! I'm going to put another coat of the duck egg blue on the cupboards before I commit any more handles, but I can see much fun ahead in putting my favourite ones in the best of places.
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So I've done three, got room for another 18!!
The whole tin of knobs cost me £12, which is pretty good going for to get such joy.
Did I mention knobs?
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Will do! I've done about ten pieces so far, it's fucking challenging. I have dreadful double vision and hands the size of a small family car, I now know that this kit was not built for me, nor I for it.
That said, I'm going to persevere in that grim-faced courageous way that we plucky crafters have, when you've started something and you will fucking finish it, no matter how wonky and cack-handed that craft is destined to be.
Wookey
Muppet is not a slur
Great find Wookey
Aren't they though?! So chuffed to get a kitchen make over for twelve quid! AND I have single-handedly almost solved heart disease as well actually, which is a nice secondary bonus tbf.
ginger_syn
Her Insanity laughs under pressure...👾
I am about to start repaing my window blinds that were made from an ikea room divider by my late partner and are now in a grotty and hole ridden state , I hope it works.
Pics to follow later.
Pics to follow later.
