I was back to playing with the more autumnal stamps and colours this week, after the monochrome of last week’s elephant. This week, it’s a heat-embossed copper squirrel playing in the orange and red leaves of autumn. I did think about doing the squirrel in silver, since grey squirrels are more common than red ones,… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: The Autumn Squirrel
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Fat Quarter Sewing: The Purple Tablecloth
I’m getting to the end of my rainbow. After this one, I’ve just got the orange to go, since I don’t propose to separate the blue and purple into Blue, Indigo, Violet. Just one blue and one purple will do. It’s back to lots of flowers for the purple tablecloth. Suitable, given all the bee-friendly… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Purple Tablecloth
This Week in Crafts: Summer Butterflies
I can’t remember seeing many butterflies so far this year. Plenty of bees on the balcony, but not so many butterflies. Or in the park next door. There’s time for them to turn up, and perhaps they will, now the sun seems to have come out. In the meantime, at least I have plenty of… Continue reading This Week in Crafts: Summer Butterflies
Stitch By Stitch: Round the Corner
Having done not much stitching last month, I’ve done considerably better this time. Even taking into account having to unpick a lot of gold and restitching it because I’d miscounted and couldn’t easily fudge a cover-up. I also changed my mind about what I was stitching. At present, I’m focusing on the outer border. I… Continue reading Stitch By Stitch: Round the Corner
Fat Quarter Sewing: The Blue Tablecloth
I didn’t mean to make the blue tablecloth this month. It was supposed to be the orange one. But several things conspired and the blue one was made. Despite the ease with which the orange fat quarters started gathering, it seems much harder to find orange fat quarters in sets of five. Seven, yes, but… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Blue Tablecloth
This Week In Craft: Baby Blanket
I haven’t crocheted much since Christmas, despite plans for coasters to go with the rainbow of tablecloths. I don’t really need any more coasters, which is probably why I haven’t started on them yet. But this last month I’ve used up several balls and several more ends of balls on a baby blanket for a… Continue reading This Week In Craft: Baby Blanket
This Week In Crafts: Organising Threads
Bank holiday weekends are good opportunities to hide in the craft room and have a play. Last weekend, while going through mini cross stitch kits, I split them into Done and Not Yet Done. They fill a box. I hadn’t realised I had quite so many as I do. I wonder if I’ll ever get… Continue reading This Week In Crafts: Organising Threads
Beginning Christmas Cards
Now that Easter is out of the way, and with it my main birthday season, I’m turning my attention towards Christmas. I know. Early. We’ve barely got over the last one; we’ve only just started with the longer, warmer days; it’s the midsummer End of Lockdown parties first. But given that what I think of… Continue reading Beginning Christmas Cards
Stitch By Stitch: All the Sea-Creatures
After the success of February, and completing the Old World part of the map, I took a breather to do some smaller kits. And then had to do the whole “Just this sea-creature” thing all over again. It’s mostly worked, again. Sadly, there was no Ring Cycle on Radio 3 this time. Instead, I’ve been… Continue reading Stitch By Stitch: All the Sea-Creatures
Fat Quarter Sewing: The Green Tablecloth
For the joys of Spring, a green tablecloth was needed. I’m making my rainbow out of order. As with the red tablecloth, sadly I didn’t have eight green fat quarters in my stash, so to eBay I went. I did have one, a pastel green, which is as well, because of the awkward quantities of… Continue reading Fat Quarter Sewing: The Green Tablecloth
