DD went a bit crashy-bang yesterday, and I got 404’d from my own diary, so I wasn’t able to post the progress pictures of the remainder of the Minecraft faces: Chicken: Cow: And Enderman (a type of monster, for the uninitiated – its eyes glow pink when it’s angry at you): I started doing the…
hich means I can finally reveal the secret project I mentioned ages ago. In fact, it was two secret projects. Or possibly just two iterations of the same secret project. When browsing the internets looking for patterns to feed my new paper-piecing obsession, I came across a lovely chicken pattern that was just crying out…
While it’s true that a good worker never blames his or her tools, it’s also true that for an unskilled dabbler, using the right tools for the job can make all the difference. For example, these are not the right tools for cutting patchwork squares: So after a text from Mum pointing out my general…
It’s stinking hot today (seriously – I hung out a load of washing, and it was dry before the second load was even finished in the washing machine), so of course it was the perfect day to spend sitting over a hot ironing board working on my latest project. It’s for a Christmas present, but…
It is miserably cold. Snow and sleet this morning (but not enough to settle, so no chance of getting the day off work 🙁 ), and an icy cold wind. Now it’s just raining and cold and horrible. We’re all sitting here in the office (yes, I’m being naughty and writing this at work, but…
My overly-ambitious attempt at a harder paper-piecing pattern actually turned out pretty well. Can you tell what it is yet? All those bits put together. The final product. I still haven’t decided what to do with the heart I made the other day, but I knew what this one would be before I started. Making…
I went to another class at Make Cafe last week, this time on paper piecing patchwork. Once I got my head round the technique it was lots of fun, and again the class (a bit bigger than last time) was full of lovely people, so we had a great chat over the sewing machines. The…
Well, my experiment in a new craft is going pretty well so far. It started with a couple of cheap tables off TradeMe and an old dictionary (Warning to bookcrossers and other booklovers, the following images contain graphic scenes of book abuse. You may want to look away now.): It still needs another coat or…
enny is a serious knitter. She knits vastly complicated patterns that actually turn into wearable clothing, using the sorts of fancy expensive wool that you have to be pretty confident about your ability to spend that much money on. And she’s been trying to tempt me for ages to pick up some needles – a…
Work in progress (yes, it is as sticky and clumpy and hard to apply delicately as it looks): Design complete and henna dry, now I’ve just got to wait a couple of hours: And the end result: That was after 2.5 hours (I was aiming for 3, but I forgot the number one rule of…