tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49401367886640255832024-03-14T03:24:43.825-07:00My crafty adventuresQuite giftedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255662318341307040noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940136788664025583.post-41088597489689933402013-05-29T12:08:00.000-07:002013-05-29T12:08:13.695-07:00Granny bunting.<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of my favourite bloggers who crochets is a lady called Lucy at Attic 24</div>
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It's from her blog that I learnt how to make granny bunting.</div>
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I really am not great with instructions (I don't do instructions is one of my mantras) but I got the hang of it within 15 mins.</div>
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I figured I could join bunting into a circle and I started to wing it..</div>
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This was going to be a bag but as I go along it seems to be evolving into a cushion or a hat for a giant. I suppose if you freestyle you have to expect the unexpected.</div>
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I've just finished joining another row.</div>
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It almost covers the sofa but still a way to go for it to be big enough to cover our bed.</div>
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I gave it a go a few times and failed miserably. I resigned myself to never getting the knack of making.</div>
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Then I watched Paul Hollywood's series on bread on BBC2, bought the book and decided to give it a a go.</div>
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The recipe is easy to follow but I will say me it took me until my fourth attempt before I was really happy with the result and I did watch the episode again on iplayer.</div>
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Combine on the lowest setting then increase to the next setting and then I mixed on number 3 for the last 7 minutes (15 mins in total)</div>
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Next on my Bucket List would be to keep a sourdough starter going and make a really good sourdough.</div>
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For 40th Birthday, some lovely friends bought me a place on a crochet class.</div>
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I have never been able to crochet before but always longed to and had several failed attempts at teaching myself.</div>
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The lessons were invaluable, it was like something just clicked and I got it.</div>
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I've done blankets for the kids and I'm now working on one for me and Dave.</div>
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I was very lucky to get a sewing machine. It's a lovely one and a thing of beauty. Having had a go on one at a sewing cafe, I longed to get one. Because it was also my 40th, Dave got it for me.</div>
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I've had a go at a few things, decorated a blanket for my nephew and Leah asked me to make her one.</div>
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I used a fleece blanket from Ikea, I don't think it cost anymore than £5.</div>
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I've had this idea in my head for a while, to make Leah a board where she could store her hairbands and stuff. She tends to use the same ones over and over again or the ones she does use end up on our bed or bedroom floor. The hope was that if she has a way of displaying and storing them, she'll use different ones and keep them in one place. A person can but dream!</div>
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It took me a while to find the board. Two weeks ago I finally found one, in Wilkinsons for £2.50 I think it was. Everything else I used was from my craft stash.</div>
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One coat is enough, the papers I covered it with are thin so it looks better being backed by white rather than brown.</div>
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These are decoupage papers I got while on holiday, pack of 24 for £3.99.</div>
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I got Leah to pick out just 4 colours to try and keep it simple and make it easier to work with. </div>
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I started, roughly, in the middle putting down a thin layer of mod podge and then smoothing down each rectangle.</div>
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Leah was very happy, thankfully.</div>
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My crafting has been practically non-existent.</div>
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I found my self in a deep, dark, lonely, crafting rut!</div>
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Everything was in the living room, covered in a layer of dust, inaccessible, unused and unloved.</div>
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For sometime now, my crafting (when it <em>has </em>happened) has taken place on a small table with me hunched up and everything in a mess around me.</div>
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When you stop crafting because getting everything out just seems like a hassle is when you know it's time for a change.</div>
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To cut a long story short, this involved moving all my craft stuff down stairs, to the space under the stairs. I'll spare you the details, just know it took over a week of sorting, dusting, sneezing and thinking.</div>
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To the left of the stairs is the cupboard which houses the unit that powers the warm air heating, the door was an ugly brown and had seen better days so out came my old friend, blackboard paint. Several coats later.</div>
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I haven't had time to do much in the way of crafting just lately but I was just browsing through my photos of stuff I've made in the past. I take photos of most everything I make, and it's nice to look back from time to time to remember things I have made but also to get a bit of inspiration.</div>
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The mirror frames I work on are from Ikea and cost around £1.50 I think it is.</div>
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Now, I have long had an affinity with buttons. About 6 or 7 years ago I came across a stall at a craft fair at Sandown Park that sold buttons. Thousands of them! All sorts! I was in button heaven!</div>
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They did various colour mixes and sizes. I bought loads. I love sticking them on stuff.</div>
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Something I've found from my button creations is a common thread, most people love buttons.<br />
Most people had a Nan or an Aunt who had a button box that they loved to rummage around as a child (yes, my Nan did too). </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This frame, I coloured first with a wash of white and dab of red acrylic paint with lots of water to thin it out. The buttons are stuck on with silicone glue.<br />
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Other frames I have done with squares of patterned papers. I cut the squares out with my Big Shot.</div>
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It was a happy accident that the size square I used, set out as I did gave a nice even border. The flowers were from a shop called The Works which does cheap books and stationary and I coloured them to match the papers using promarker pens.</div>
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I love that you can take a "thing" and make it look very different and that it is a crafted things that has a use.<br />
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I'm grateful that all of these frames have actually been bought by people, something I still find hard to deal with.<br />
I've been selling stuff for several years now, usually at church and school fairs and I still find it humbling that a person will part with cash for something I have made. It's also pressure, the weight of responsibility of giving people value for money.<br />
Or maybe I just think too much. <br />
Yeah, probably!<br />
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I made my first harvest sheaf 4 years ago now. It didn't look great and I wasn't confident in the quality of the bread so no one got to eat it.</div>
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It was all made a lot easier because I made the dough in one batch where as with the bread machine I had to do it in two batches.</div>
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Since my bread machine has been giving me problems, I've been dropping not so subtle hints to Dave to get a mixer. I do bake an awful lot of bread and though it would have been cheaper to get another bread machine, the other 3 (yes 3!) I've had in the past have all developed the same problem. </div>
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After giving the bread machine another try this week and it happening, Dave just said that I should probably try getting a mixer. Well, he didn't have to tell me twice!</div>
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I went on Amazon on Tuesday and it came lunch time today.</div>
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Blackboard paint is something I love working with.</div>
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I love that you can use on most anything and it's really not that expensive.</div>
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About 6 years ago, I decorated Leah's bedroom and painted her a chalkboard on the wall.</div>
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It was a real labour of love doing the border, I printed the flowers off on sticker paper and cut each one out, pretty fiddly work.</div>
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Three coats of paint on the mirror side and two coats on the back.</div>
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Plain wood embellishment from craft shop.<br />
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A nice even coating of mod podge.<br />
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Several years ago, when I first was given a bread machine, I wanted to be able to make a foccacia.</div>
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This bread isn't strictly speaking a foccacia, it just seemed to develop into something else.</div>
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What guided me along the way was people's responses to it, if they made happy noises about it I was knew I was moving in the right direction.</div>
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Some people call it "Maggie Bread". I'm going to (in the style of the Great British Bake off) call it my signature bread.</div>
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Using a clean finger, poke the bread....a lot.</div>
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It was sometime last year that I bought a plain white stool for £5 from the bargain corner at Ikea. </div>
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I had some papers from <a href="http://decopatchstore.co.uk/">http://decopatchstore.co.uk/</a> and using their decopatch glue, tearing up the papers and lining up the pattern I covered the stool.</div>
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It looked great and I was dead proud and then Leah was messing around with nail polish and remover.</div>
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Our Summer holiday, we were in Cornwall and we bought an OS map and it was invaluable when it came to all the little country roads. Me and that map had a real close working relationship that week.</div>
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Mod podge, map and sponge brush (I find it easier to use with mod podge and covering a large area).</div>
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Being quite generous, I covered 1/3 of the stool with mod podge.</div>
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I ordered this "etagere" on line a few weeks ago from <a href="http://www.greenfingers.com/">http://www.greenfingers.com/</a>. It is probably something I could have picked up at a car boot sale but I didn't feel like waiting when I found pretty much what I wanted on line.</div>
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I'm pleased with the results. It just makes a change from plain wood (which I love btw) and adds a bit of interest. Being someone who just loves to craft, sometimes the fun lies in being able to pimp things up.</div>
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I have always wanted to sew.</div>
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I never managed to master that skill at school and wondered if I ever would.</div>
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About 5 or 6 years ago, in a fit of optimism, I asked Dave for a sewing machine for Christmas. I tried to get my head round the instructions but just had a total mental block.</div>
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Fast forward to around this time last year and I booked myself onto a beginners sewing course and the mental block crumbled away.</div>
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Last Summer I had been working on sewing a patch work curtain to go under Leah's bed, by hand! I wanted desperately to be able to make something lovely for my little girl or at least try. I had bought these "charm squares" to get me going.</div>
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Once I mastered the sewing machine, things went a whole lot quicker. I managed to get one curtain finished. Then I got bored and away it went.</div>
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I decided that before I moved onto a new project, I needed to finish what I had started.</div>
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Once I dug around in my huge bag of fabric, I got a nice surprise and found I was further on then I had thought.</div>
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Before I knew it, I had a pair of curtains ready to hang.</div>
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With Leah back from camp tomorrow, I'm hoping she'll be pleased her mum finally got her act together!</div>
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They are not perfect, they could probably do with having more of a drop but I have learnt quite a lot making them and that can't be a bad thing.</div>
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<br /></div>Quite giftedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15255662318341307040noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4940136788664025583.post-73079706434537665482012-08-07T12:43:00.001-07:002012-08-07T13:45:21.478-07:00Pillowcase bag<div align="center">
I've been intending to blog about stuff I make alongside my gardening blog but as I haven't made anything for sometime there wasn't anything to say. Until now.....</div>
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My youngest is on camp and my oldest is spending afternoons at tennis camp so I have a couple of hours to myself. I love my kids but it was bliss. </div>
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I had this Martha Stewart sewing book for Christmas and had seen the pillowcase bag, which looked about my ability level. Fast forward 8 months and I finally get around to doing something about it.</div>
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Instructions really aren't my thing at all but even I thought this was doable. Just a case of cutting off the closed end, cutting the pillowcase in half and hemming the cut sides. Then put one side inside the other, sew the sides and then turn inside out and sew the bottom.</div>
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I think what also appealed to me about this project was the fact that it could be done on the cheap. Due to our poor taste in soft furnishings, we do not possess a pillowcase that inpsired me one bit. Thankfully I was in House of Fraser, looking in the sales when I spotted the bedding stuff was hugely reduce. So I grabbed a few pillowcases, I figured if it all went horribly wrong it was no big loss.</div>
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Now, I had bought this rotary cutter months ago and I finally used it today. Makes cutting out so easy.</div>
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My sewing machine, cheap, seemed like a bargain at the time, very difficult to use. Makes seams a bit wonky no matter how hard I try.</div>
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The finished result.</div>
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Only took an hour and a half from start to finish.</div>
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Just hoping this is the start of a bout of crafting.</div>
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