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

[wayward bob]

making a sneaky bracelet for me on the side

 

[campanula]

The entire household is subsumed with the half-size bow-top caravan for grand-daughter. Youngest son has welded chassis and wheels and external frame while we are cladding and painting outside. It has gotten a bit out of hand with stained glass, mahogany seating, hardwood joists, oriole windows. I definitely promise photos. Last year, the 4 storey dolls-house took over the kitchen for 2 months before Xmas while this year, the entire hardstanding at the front is filled...which means truck repairs put on hold till after Xmas.

 

[wayward bob]

likelikelike

last minute making

and packaging

 

[campanula]

I sent off for sign-writers enamels (One Shot) and am gulping at the cost - £97 for 9 small tins! I did NOT look at brushes, gilding, or any other pricey but wholly desirable sundries.

 

[wayward bob]

money spent on materials is never wasted ime

/pusher

 

[mentalchik]

Portrait of Loud 1.......(my bestie)

 

[Crispy]

Edit

Will repost when I have a decent pic!

 

[moose]

That's brilliant, mentalchik !

 

[Crispy]

I started on this over a year ago, but baby #2 got in the way. Said baby is now patient enough to let me finish it:



It's a laser etched/cut map of central london



All the railways and tube lines above and below ground



Oh and it lights up



Pretty!

 

[spirals]

I made a bear

 

[RubyToogood]

Can anyone eg Boudicca shed any light on these sleeve instructions? I've got to "Baste RIGHT side of strip for continuous lap to WRONG side of slash opening" and I can't see for the life of me why you're sewing it to the wrong side

 

[Boudicca]

You are binding the cut edge RubyToogood, so I'm not sure it completely matters which side you machine and which you handstitch. This is what Alison Smith says:

 

[RubyToogood]

You are binding the cut edge RubyToogood, so I'm not sure it completely matters which side you machine and which you handstitch. This is what Alison Smith says:View attachment 96863

Aaaaaaahhhhh!

 

[campanula]

Put yak catastrophe well out of sight and ordered many shades of red for new swingy cardi (louisa Harding, Rowan Fine Art, some Noro and Juniper Moon yarn...a whole spree in fact, ostensibly while looking for one tiny ball of purple fluff for DiL's fingerless gloves.
Cut stencils as guidelines for wagon painting.
eta - Ruby Toogood, I know I should post a pic of the camelid abomination, but lying flat really does not do the hideous shape justice...however, if you think you might come up with even the tiniest bit of help/advice or encouragement to bin, will dig it out and photo
eta - perusing Loop yarns - found myself buying several shades of alpaca purples. Getting out of control (it's the colours) - have blithely spent £120

 

[campanula]

Caravan coming along - ludicrously over-engineered as we followed same (ish) plan as the horsebox...so insulated within an inch of it's life. The hardwood ceiling joists, 9mm ply, insulation and aluminium sheet ratcheted in place (for the bow-top) while I have started on the exterior painting - have cut stencils to use as border template. Interior tongue and groove finishing underway including bed platform. Pics to follow.

 

[Shirl]

I'm making a necklace for someone who came into my studio last weekend. It's very simple, made with machine made chain but then with four large links put into it. Three will sit together and be oval and the same size. The other one will sit on the other side and be bigger than the other three. The three represent her children and the other is their father and it's him who's paying for it.
It should take me very little time to make it. So far though I have ordered three lengths of chain, all the wrong size
Today I know that I've ordered the right size but bloody hell, a simple necklace is going to drive me mad by the time it's made

 

[Shirl]

I'm making a necklace for someone who came into my studio last weekend. It's very simple, made with machine made chain but then with four large links put into it. Three will sit together and be oval and the same size. The other one will sit on the other side and be bigger than the other three. The three represent her children and the other is their father and it's him who's paying for it.
It should take me very little time to make it. So far though I have ordered three lengths of chain, all the wrong size
Today I know that I've ordered the right size but bloody hell, a simple necklace is going to drive me mad by the time it's made

In the new year I'll be making a selection of chain necklaces with interesting adaptations

 

[wayward bob]

frustrating work day for me today. had been accepted by a film festival in toronto to make an experimental piece, but after further discussions it doesn't fit into their invigilation setup so they can't take it. still planning to make the work, but i have no idea if it will ever be deemed showable in the format it needs.

and my trusty digi slr has developed a possibly terminal fault. waiting on a driver set that should work with the unbudging japanese-type screws so i can get inside. yes it's 10 years old and yes a new entry level dslr would prolly have much better specs but i know this machine and i know how to get it to see things like i do.

i'm in the middle of a photography project that i felt was going really well. but there's no way i could complete it with a different camera. so either this calls time on that and i have to work with what i have, or i get the fucker fixed and keep on with it.

everything crossed for getting the fucker fixed...

 

[wayward bob]

In the new year I'll be making a selection of chain necklaces with interesting adaptations

i saw some very sweet little pieces at our open studio that had a cloud pendant with little strings of chain raindrops

 

[Shirl]

i saw some very sweet little pieces at our open studio that had a cloud pendant with little strings of chain raindrops

That's interesting, I am planning on making some cloud earrings with small holes in the clouds and using chain for rain. Not only did I buy the wrong chain three times, I was so convinced I'd bought the right chain the third time that I bought a metre and half so I'd have plenty in stock

Sorry to hear about your piece for the film festival, what a bummer Your work is is lovely though and as for that peice, it's time will come.
Good luck with the camera x

 

[wayward bob]

That's interesting, I am planning on making some cloud earrings with small holes in the clouds and using chain for rain.

great minds was really effective for what seems such a simple idea - one i'd seen someone else do it

 

[moose]

That's interesting, I am planning on making some cloud earrings with small holes in the clouds and using chain for rain.

I made a necklace like that out of shrink plastic once.

 

[RubyToogood]

I have a cloud and chain raindrop one from Oliver Bonas

 

[RubyToogood]

I made this apron dress a while back but since I had the camera out to take a photo of the cardi:



I wear this ALL THE TIME.

 

[moose]

I can see why - it's lovely!

 

[treefrog]

Made a nursing pillow and two slip covers for it today. Felt really good to shake out the cobwebs and make something practical that's also a bit lovely

 

[Shirl]

I decided to make myself a very long necklace to use up some of the silver chain that I bought in error

 

[mentalchik]

For my soon to be here grandaughter's room.....and yes it's a bit 'pretty' and my DiL is obsessed with rabbits so what the hell...

 

[spirals]

Ziggy

 

[Boudicca]

View attachment 98931 Ziggy

I want this badly and I'm not even a great Bowie fan