Crafty Thread - what are you working on at the moment?

[moose]

Have you got buttonhole scissors? I found my grandma's a few weeks ago, will have to have them sharpened.

 

[RubyToogood]

Have you got buttonhole scissors? I found my grandma's a few weeks ago, will have to have them sharpened.

I had to google those and discovered that actually I do and that's exactly what I've been using. I always thought they were a stray pair of nail scisssors, but not curved, that I'd misappropriated at some point and left in my sewing things. I wonder where they came from then.

 

[wayward bob]

i've spent most of today repeatedly stabbing things. i bloody love needle felting

 

[RubyToogood]

I've never done any.

I'm currently attempting to knit this, but in more normal sized wool for a more normal sized scarf, as a leaving present for a colleague (I'm leaving, not him).

 

[spirals]

50 shades of wool!

 

[yaketyyak]

For as long as I can remember I have been into arty farty thangs, in particular textile art. I like it to be abstract in the main but occasionally I will really get into something challenging (for me at least).

Anyhow this is what I enjoy doing..

 

[RubyToogood]

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For as long as I can remember I have been into arty farty thangs, in particular textile art. I like it to be abstract in the main but occasionally I will really get into something challenging (for me at least).

Anyhow this is what I enjoy doing..

Is that felted or embroidered?

 

[yaketyyak]

It is originally an idea from Richard Box.
He was the first person in the textile field that really inspired me.
I started with some green loose weaved fabric and cut out some templates. Then threw a bag of rags and oddments up in the air and really got amongst them. Stuck them on with Marvin medium (ace product) sticks fabric really well without leaving the lumpy bumpyness of ordinary glue. Just very very small pieces at a time and then embellished with some free machine embroidery. A real labour of love it took me yonks.

 

[Greebo]

View attachment 2428850 shades of wool!

hardcore amigurumi

 

[spirals]

Undead hamsters

 

[RubyToogood]

Finished the scarf. The wool was a Lidl special and is 100% wool - really good bargain as it's reasonably washable and comes out lovely and soft. If anyone spots that they have it in again, please let me know! (It's obviously not the enormo-wool specified in the pattern.)

 

[Biddlybee]

He'll love it Rubes.

 

[wtfftw]

I spy new cardi.

 

[RubyToogood]

I spy new cardi.

Yes! Well spotted. I tried to get a separate shot of it at the same time but couldn't get it to come out right.

 

[yaketyyak]

Gawjuss scarf btw RubyToogood.

I also enjoy (perhaps a bit too much) doing some encaustic art.

Then I like to embellish with free machine embroidery.

Hungry for more projects and inspiration. The encaustic art one was inspired by Aurora Borealis.

 

[yaketyyak]

It is part of a tryptich.

 

[moose]

Really nice work, yakety.

 

[yaketyyak]

Thanks Moose and everyone.

 

[yaketyyak]

Sometimes I get all detailish and labour long and hard over this kinda stuff.... Mine is the attempt on the right.

 

[RubyToogood]

Finished scarf #2 for my other colleague. I now have 1 ball of this wool (Kidsilk Aura) left over, which is a bit useless as it's not enough to do much with. I was thinking of putting a fringe on the ends, but now it's finished I think that would spoil it.

 

[wayward bob]

awesome skillz rubes

 

[Greebo]

Finished scarf #2 for my other colleague.<snip>View attachment 24660

That's beautiful, and so much work in it too. I bet it'll be warm with that loose texture and the choice of yarn.

 

[moose]

A Haaandbag!


(oops, pic of back is a bit blurry)

 

[RubyToogood]

That's beautiful, and so much work in it too. I bet it'll be warm with that loose texture and the choice of yarn.

It's actually a dead easy pattern, as lace goes, because you only have to do anything lacy every 3rd row. Also it's quick because you use fluffy wool on massive needles - it took me a week and a half.

 

[RubyToogood]

A Haaandbag!

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(oops, pic of back is a bit blurry)

That's awesome, great fabric.

 

[moose]

Cheers, was a bugger to put the frame on, I am covered in glue! It has a spotty Macclesfield silk lining, keeping it local, like.

 

[Biddlybee]

Finished scarf #2 for my other colleague. I now have 1 ball of this wool (Kidsilk Aura) left over, which is a bit useless as it's not enough to do much with. I was thinking of putting a fringe on the ends, but now it's finished I think that would spoil it.

I've got some kidsilk I'd be happy to part with

 

[RubyToogood]

I've got some kidsilk I'd be happy to part with

Why? And, Haze or Aura? (they're different)

 

[Biddlybee]

Haze, thought they were interchangeable,don't think I'll ever use it again.

 

[moose]

Because it nearly drove her doolally!