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.
Snap bags
Draught excluder
A long deferred project using scraps from a friend’s kitchen upholstery project to create a coordinating doorstop for her.
A simple patchwork tube was wrapped around a rolled towel.
Used Corinne Brad’s craft channel tutorial to make the ‘sausage’ sit flat on the floor.
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.
Craft Not Art
A multi media play with acrylic paint (thinned with Liquitex), free motion sewing, appliqué fabric scraps and embroidery (lots of French knots).
Intended as a bedside table mat, I put this on quilt wadding and bound it to a corduroy backing before deciding to give it another ‘use’ as a piece of art.
(Binding not as wobbly as it looks when photographed hanging on the wall!)
Feeling virtuous as the only thing I bought for this was the Liquitex.
Mondrian inspired crafting
Following a gallery visit I decided to make some Mondrian inspired beer mats for our newly formed wine club.
Hand cut vinyl sticks well to hoarded beer mats and the best had cork stuck to the base as well.
Easy, disposable, fun.
Slow stitching, quick joy
I have gathered all my embroidery and cross stitch supplies together and realised I have a lifetime’s supply. So I was delighted to find inspiration from Mistikomakes on YouTube.
Not only did this give me lots of practice on fly stitch, chain stitch and French knots it inspired me for little makes that are satisfyingly fast to finish.
Thank you Misti Ko!
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