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

[spirals]

Have some dancing moles!

 

[moose]

What do you do with all these lovely critters, spirals? I have a vision of you living in a houseful of them, with their tiny little eyes following you around.

 

[spirals]

LOL! I do have a fair few but recently I started selling them on etsy and facebook. My husband swears they are breeding like tribbles now though

 

[wayward bob]

blocking yarn is sparkly irl

 

[susie12]

your stuff always looks so lovely bob, you are very talented

 

[wayward bob]

thank you i've never really done lace before and it's like meditation, counting all the changing repeats out

 

[susie12]

The colours are gorgeous too, like waves.

 

[wayward bob]

it may take some time to come to fruition but i fully intend fitting some of this in the near future

 

[Miss-Shelf]

i am making a christmas card for my parents with 12 teabags as a christmas tea eg yogi pukka -12 flavours
its called the 12 teas of chtistmas

 

[Boudicca]

Finished my first corset, nice to have a waist again, but I can't see me wearing this out of the house!

 

[spirals]

Xmas pud hamster

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I needed a tray to go under the toaster for crumb catching. Everything I have on the tea tray front was too big so I transformed a shoebox lid with paper napkins and acrylic medium in a papier maché-ish way. I am pleased.

 

[moose]

Come on Mrs M, you know the score Pics!!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I don't know where I put the cable!

 

[Greebo]

I don't know where I put the cable!

Stop looking for it and it'll turn up. That's what happens here.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

My house is in chaos while work is ongoing. You know these puzzles?

My house is a bit like that at the moment, but a 3-D version

 

[wayward bob]

our place is exactly the same mrs m

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've revised down my 'everything finished & ready for Christmas' plans. In the end, it's about sitting down together for a happy meal. This may be the first time since nineteen-hundred-and-frozen-to-death* I've not done a tree...


* a useful phrase of my mother's used to mean 'some unspecified time in the dim and distant past'.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

sitting down together for a happy meal

I clearly do not mean crap burger chain meal in a box

 

[Greebo]

I clearly do not mean crap burger chain meal in a box

Thank goodness for that.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Does paper cutting count as a craft? I got a new book of patterns for Christmas and am having lots of fun trying them out.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Of course it counts as a craft! There's a big tradition of paper cutting in Poland too. Google wycinanki.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

Of course it counts as a craft! There's a big tradition of paper cutting in Poland too. Google wycinanki.

Oh! I love the multicoloured ones!

 

[vauxhallmum]

I'm having to go cold turkey on the crafting as I have given myself RSI from all the crochet It's bastard AGONY, especially in the morning. I keep casting loving glances at my wool bag but will have to stay strong. Am cross with myself

 

[Greebo]

I'm having to go cold turkey on the crafting as I have given myself RSI from all the crochet <snip>

You have my sympathy on that, it's why I keep switching between crafts and trying to alternate hands whenever possible.

 

[Greebo]

Of course it counts as a craft! There's a big tradition of paper cutting in Poland too. Google wycinanki.

Also in Switzerland, "scherenschnitt". BTW some of the cutting is easier if you cut with all but the tips of your scissors under the paper, instead of above it.

 

[RubyToogood]

WHAT THE FUCK???????

I had a call from the sewing machine repair place today, to say that the machine I took in for repair in September has now been mended and I owe them £18 if I want it back.

I had given up on it because they didn't seem to be making any progress, and I'm sure the last time I spoke to them they said it needed a part that wasn't made now or something. I bought a new one ffs.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

WHAT THE FUCK???????

I had a call from the sewing machine repair place today, to say that the machine I took in for repair in September has now been mended and I owe them £18 if I want it back.

I had given up on it because they didn't seem to be making any progress, and I'm sure the last time I spoke to them they said it needed a part that wasn't made now or something. I bought a new one ffs.

Do you still want it?

 

[wayward bob]

ah that's shit rubes, is your new one a better machine? i was thinking maybe you know someone who'd like to adopt your old machine, but that doesn't help the fact you've had to shell out on a new one

i'm gonna have a go at indigo dyeing today it's an ancient kit but the chemicals look okay so i'll give it a whirl. gonna overdye some jeans and then everything in the house that's kind of white

 

[Mrs Magpie]

it's an ancient kit but the chemicals look okay

You only need to worry if they've been exposed to air as I think it's oxygen that is the activator...I may be completely wrong here but iirc indigo starts to blue up after it comes out of the dye.