I am really excited this week to be able to share this one with you. I’ve been sitting on it for several months because it was part of an Artisan swap that I was taking part in. We were supposed to keep the recipient a secret. Since this has his heraldry on it, that would […]
Read more "At Last"I have found the most awesome new web site. It’s called Drawing Board, and it’s available on New Hive, but you don’t have to sign up for New Hive in order to use it. It is a sketch program that has some really interesting tools. Lines make connections with each other, giving really interesting results. […]
Read more "Spur to Creativity"Sometimes an idea comes into your head so strongly that you can’t rest until you’ve followed it through. Sometimes the results are amazing, and sometimes not so much, but you can’t stop in the middle. That happened to me this week. I have been working my tail off recently. I am currently teaching 4 classes […]
Read more "Diorama"Ok, ok, I know it’s been almost 2 months since my last post. Summer traveling and back to school has kept me too busy to post. Not too busy to craft, as you will see. A girl has to have her priorities. 🙂 (don’t ask about my poor garden. It looks like a weed jungle!) […]
Read more "Long time no post"Once the felt had been made, and was mostly dry, I cut out a large circle. Using my teapot, I carefully steamed the center of the circle until it was too hot to touch and then stretched it over the hat form, pulling it evenly on all sides. Then, since I did not purchase a […]
Read more "Mad Hatting Part II: The Hat"Some of you may remember that way back in March, I generated my first wool bats off of my drum carder (see “Never felt this way before”). At that time I was really excited about making felted hats, but I didn’t have a hat block, so I had to shelve the project. Turns out getting […]
Read more "Mad Hatting Part I: Making the Felt"I collect spoons…yes, the cheesy, old fashioned things that you find mostly in airports and schlock shops the world over. It’s an old fashioned hobby, but it is something of a tradition in my family, and I have kept it alive. The problem is, I have no way to display them. I admit that I […]
Read more "De-frumpifying the Frumpy"This week’s craft was silk painting. Unlike my previous post, this is most definitely not stupid simple, and I can safely say that I learned a great deal including several things in the “what not to do” category. Still, I think I can be said to have been moderately successful. This silk painting, unlike what […]
Read more "Sun-day"Every once in a while I run across a craft that is both stupid simple and very lovely. I am always torn when I have found such a craft. They are the perfect sort of thing to give as gifts, but if I brag about how easy they are, or worse, post a tutorial, then […]
Read more "Stupid Simple"A few weeks ago I mentioned that some of our friends had been very generous with the bamboo from their yard, and that even after making a large number of tomato frames I had quite a few pieces of bamboo left. Today’s Mother’s Day project is finished and I have several fewer. It’s a little […]
Read more "What to do with bamboo"