Crafty Thread - what are you working on at the moment?
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moose
like some cat from Japan
Mod Podge is the business, but not very easy to get here in shops, but they have it on Amazon. It comes in loads for formats, including one specifically for fabric. However I've used the original Gloss one for fabric and it's been fine.
http://modpodgerocksblog.com/2009/07/mod-podge-formula-guide-youve-been.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=mod podge&sprefix=mod po,aps&rh=i:aps,k:mod podge
http://modpodgerocksblog.com/2009/07/mod-podge-formula-guide-youve-been.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=mod podge&sprefix=mod po,aps&rh=i:aps,k:mod podge
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Thanks, I will report back to the thread in due course!
Treacle Toes
Time
After chipping away at the whitewash of the living room I am finally in a position to bring stuff in from the shed, go through it and decide what's worth keeping or not. Wall ornaments have faced another cull, loads went out on the front wall in boxes marked 'Free, Take me!' which people did 
I rescued two fairly large, but very tired/dated looking picture frames from the bin cupboard on my old estate months back and needed to decide on keeping them or not....a little experiment with some gold acrylic paint and they have had a little facelift...they can now stay a while longer. One is up already but the other needs the print replacing. I love free stuff!
I rescued two fairly large, but very tired/dated looking picture frames from the bin cupboard on my old estate months back and needed to decide on keeping them or not....a little experiment with some gold acrylic paint and they have had a little facelift...they can now stay a while longer. One is up already but the other needs the print replacing. I love free stuff!
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Treacle Toes
Time
In other news the sewing machine I borrowed needs to be returned by Monday 
so tonight I will finish the hemming of an occasional kitchen tablecloth using the same fabric I have used to make simple dress curtains and tiebacks for the kitchen and toilet windows and recovered the kitchen chairs in. Given that the fabric was only 8 metres for 3 Euros :O when I was last in a fabric market in Amsterdam 
I believe that it was money and time well spent.
so tonight I will finish the hemming of an occasional kitchen tablecloth using the same fabric I have used to make simple dress curtains and tiebacks for the kitchen and toilet windows and recovered the kitchen chairs in. Given that the fabric was only 8 metres for 3 Euros :O when I was last in a fabric market in Amsterdam I believe that it was money and time well spent. Attachments
red rose
Fee-Ai-Esh-See-Oh
The cat has been a little spooked recently so I decided to put the foam wadding off-cuts my mom gave me to good use and make him a bed/hiding place.
It's not finished yet - I want to get something like thin bendy foam to put inside so that the arch stays up properly, but it's already proven quite popular. I had trouble finishing it because once it took shape he wouldn't get out of it
It's not finished yet - I want to get something like thin bendy foam to put inside so that the arch stays up properly, but it's already proven quite popular. I had trouble finishing it because once it took shape he wouldn't get out of it
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Bit premature because it isn't quite finished (it needs distressing with black pastel rubbed into the white to replicate the aerosol effect), but here's the last 'make' for my 'Desperately Seeking Susan' costume.
And for reference:
And for reference:
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Manter
Lunch Mob
I need your help, crafty people.
I want to make a pom pom wreath like this for next year as the ones to buy we're too small and very expensive. http://www.pickles.no/wonderful-wreath/
I don't want to use a willow or wooden wreath as they cost a fortune, and aren't in the size I want- I was going to make a frame out of wire and then wrap it in rags or bias binding, then I thought I'd glue the felt balls. But would sewing them be better? Advice please!
I want to make a pom pom wreath like this for next year as the ones to buy we're too small and very expensive. http://www.pickles.no/wonderful-wreath/
I don't want to use a willow or wooden wreath as they cost a fortune, and aren't in the size I want- I was going to make a frame out of wire and then wrap it in rags or bias binding, then I thought I'd glue the felt balls. But would sewing them be better? Advice please!
Manter
Lunch Mob
I have some willow from my fil's garden.... But I was going to make a little teepee thing for plants to grow up from it!Hi, I made my own willow wreath base a couple of years ago, if you can find a willow tree, harvest some of the stems and weave them into a circle.. I didnt follow any tutorial and it looked ok.
Check the size, it might be too large in terms of pixels or memory size.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
Thanks. I will. It's a beautiful thing we made and I want to show it here. Don't think it's too large, just an image picture thing I've got saved everywhere and as my desktop but whenever I try to upload it I get some jpeg fuck off error nonsense. I know this is real easy just don't know how to do it
Manter
Lunch Mob
Do you have Facebook? Absolute easiest is load it up there then Drag and drop onto hereThanks. I will. It's a beautiful thing we made and I want to show it here. Don't think it's too large, just an image picture thing I've got saved everywhere and as my desktop but whenever I try to upload it I get some jpeg fuck off error nonsense. I know this is real easy just don't know how to do it
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
My sister has a birthday with a zero in it coming up at the end of March so I asked her if she wanted me to make her something. She said "house stuff" as they've just moved into a new, bigger house and she is going for an understated maritime theme. 
Callie
Pivoting
My sister has a birthday with a zero in it coming up at the end of March so I asked her if she wanted me to make her something. She said "house stuff" as they've just moved into a new, bigger house and she is going for an understated maritime theme.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
My sister has a birthday with a zero in it coming up at the end of March so I asked her if she wanted me to make her something. She said "house stuff" as they've just moved into a new, bigger house and she is going for an understated maritime theme.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
I'd use wire and rags to bind, and then glue in place with a glue gun, otherwise you might find yourself going mad trying to force a needle through the foundation.
Otherwise get a florists metal wreath frame and cover with rags. They come in a variety of sizes and you can get them from the sundries places at New Covent Garden Flower Market in Vauxhall. In fact that is a really good place to pick up interesting crafty stuff in large quantities and relatively cheaply, and is a truly lovely place to wander round (early in the morning). You can get them online but in both cases will need to buy more than one.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/wreath-frame
Alternatively, in the run up to Christmas, buy one of those crappy holly wreaths from a street market (the ones with cheap red ribbon) for a £5 and dismantle it to use the metal wreath underneath.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Oddly enough, have tried that! It doesn't bend, it folds, so I could have a Christmas triangleI'm wondering whether pipe insulation might work, but not sure how bendy it is.
wayward bob
i ate all your bees
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Manter - you can get these sort of polystyrene wreaths, or oasis ones with a plastic base, that are really for making fresh flower wreaths for funerals and the like. However by the time you'd covered it in pompoms it might be a bit fat, so you might be better off making your own substructure.
NB those aren't actually pompoms on that wreath but felted balls. No reason why you couldn't do it with pompoms though, although they might squish together a bit more and be slightly less distinct as balls.
NB those aren't actually pompoms on that wreath but felted balls. No reason why you couldn't do it with pompoms though, although they might squish together a bit more and be slightly less distinct as balls.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Oh and my sister also said she really wanted a knitted pouffe. We discussed the practicalities of getting this to Jersey and she said she could stuff it herself if I knitted the cover, but I think there is more to the internals of a pouffe than just stuffing. I went and prodded one of these and there was definitely something firm going on in there:
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
I now really want a knitted pouffe...
I had a bag full of very small fabric scraps which I gave to a friend for pouffe stuffing
but it took me a long while to save them up. In the olden days, I remember using chopped up tights.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
They sell foam wreaths. Cheap as you like. Search "half round foam wreath" on amazon or similar.
