Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

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I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Thursday, 4 April 2013

Easter Holidays

I'm still making the hexagons and have made 90 at last count but the children are at home and Noah has wanted to make a recycled monster since he saw it on CBBC Totally Rubbish.
This weekend we had a go after Noah had checked the instructions on the CBBC web site.
He folded some paper in half then drew half his design. He cut this out to make a full monster and then folded an old towel in half. He then pinned his template to the towel and asked me to cut it out. This gave him 2 (almost) the same pieces of towel.
He pinned them then started to sew them together. This is where he came a bit unstuck as he kept loosing the thread and pricking his fingers, he also left far too big a gap between his stitches so all the stuffing would come out. This is where I stepped in and did his sewing. He then added a mouth and buttons for eyes (again with me sewing) We stuffed it and sewed the end together. He is really very pleased with the result.


How cute is that?!
So I had a go....


I'm very pleased with it and it was all hand sewn so I have found yet another reason to get my sewing machine serviced.

I also had a go at something else this week.
After seeing an idea in Making magazine for stamp art from the book The Art of Homemade Living by Willow Crossley I was very happy to help a friend and take home a big bag of used stamps.

It took a while to sort them


As there were loads of gold 1st Class and blue 2nd Class


As well as many coloured ones that I sorted into Bright, Dark and Muted

I had a go at making a Butterfly


I thought it was quite good


So I framed it.
I don't think its quite right. Maybe I should cut the shape out of the card mount so the lines are cleaner & sharper.
I could also use more colour as I have so many bright & colourful stamps.
It is the first attempt so these things are always evolving.

Anyway back to crocheting hexagons...only another 50 to go.....