After watching another Sarah Homfray embroidery tutorial I practised her 10 flowers and made a small bunting strip to showcase them.
Embroidered bunting
Use What You Have
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.
Beach crafts
A little dabble in stone wrapping for this week’s new craft effort.
Leather cord gives me enough play to thread over and under.
This will be an occasional play when I bring back interesting stones from the beach walk.
For the wrong shaped stones (asymmetrical or not flat enough) I played with a few stickles and a gelly pen before deciding whether to release them back into the wild.
Plastic canvas
A gift of plastic canvas sheets tested my craft creativity. I wanted to make useful things but found the material hard on my fingers so my first project – a cross stitch earring holder – is in the UFO (unfinished objects) pile. Pinterest searches yielded little until I found a fly swat idea.
An old stitch book provided patterns to cover the canvas quicker, so the handle in a Hungarian stitch variation and frame in Gobelin stitch made this a workable project. Finishing the edges with a simple wrap covers the plastic edges and provides a contrast.
Spurred on by this a pair of napkin holders made with 6 1/4” x 2” strips of plastic were soon completed in florentine stitch and used some scraps of tapestry wool left over from long completed kits.
The earring holder project is now sending me reproachful ‘looks’ so I will probably make progress on that through the year. A long way to go.
Make do, make better
Simple upgrade: appliqué on to shabby areas on otherwise serviceable oven mittens. This keeps them looking serviceable for a bit longer.
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