Another doorstop come draft excluder using a rolled towel as stuffing.
This time I appliquéd flower motifs using die cut shapes and heat and bond.
Draft excluder/doorstop
Use What You Have
Review of Flying Tiger advent calendar kit
This was fun to make with pre scored boxes. No glue required just a bit of folding and 24 little gifts to gather. This set will make a great decoration too.
Bling the bottles
Seasonal production of liqueurs (limoncello and berry vodka) is underway and assorted bottles are being recycled.
To pretty them up I am adding Perlon which makes a durable varnish droplet or line on glass, paper or fabric.
Here I am creating snowflake shapes in white and silver and will add bling tags when I finally wrap them.
Embroidered bunting
After watching another Sarah Homfray embroidery tutorial I practised her 10 flowers and made a small bunting strip to showcase them.
Facial cleanser diy
Mix in a clean jam jar…
A teaspoon of liquid Castile soap and one of fractionated coconut oil
3 teaspoons each of witch hazel and aloe Vera gel
Scent with lavender, frankincense, blue tansy and rosemary essential oil
Shake well then add in recyclable cotton pads
Mondrian inspired
6 months in the making after a visit to Tate Modern
The lines and colour blocks are cross stitch while the background is Hungarian stitch (I unpicked my first effort at cross stitch background as it was taking tooooo long).
This will be an hook earring display and holder.
Lined food cloche
Pretty but ineffective at keep insects off food plates, so I ‘lined’ the cloche with muslin.
Snap bags
A quick make using spare garden furniture fabric to make some doggie pooh bag holders.
I sewed a hair tie in a side seam so they can be attached to lead handle or a belt loop easily.
Upcycled store bags
Simple scrap buster this week. Glued torn book pages over the store branding and then added scan n cut letters.
Mini bunting
Trying to empty my scrap paper folder so made two mini bunting strings that will be named once the recipient is decided upon
This is simple triangle cutting (2 inches across the top and 3 inches from top to tip) from past Papercraft society folios and magazine free papers.
Once four stacks have been created (I glued two sheets of the flimsy magazine paper together so I had double sided prettiness to create patterns 3&4), I used a hole punch and threaded the triangles on ribbon to create my strings.
Minimum number of triangles to spell -eventually- ‘happy birthday’ is 19.
I am storing each string in a quick made envelope using a single sheet of craft magazine paper folded and stuck to make an A5 envelope, decoration is another string of bunting ready for the recipients name.
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