We saw these at a museum gift shop and I said, oh just pipe cleaners and styrofoam balls and glue. I can make those. Of course, it was harder than it looked. The difficulties are: 1. keeping the lines straight and 2. not getting glue all over everything. If you needed a license to operate… Read more »
Posts By: Dawn
Drapes for Todd
These were actually finished back in January but it took him a while to get them hung and then even longer for me to get over there to take a photo. He went out and bought some nice bronze tie-backs for them and they look great. The fabric he chose was really too heavy to… Read more »
Clay ornaments
I didn’t make any ornaments this year. Usually come Christmas-time I’ve got a box full of that year’s output but this year I had to sit down and make some. I decided to make clay ornaments from cookie cutters. Here are an angel and a stocking, decorated after baking with glitter. Then I made a… Read more »
Christmas Tree Skirt
Finally! I bought this kit about four years ago. I didn’t have anyone to make it for (my mother made my own tree skirt) but it was so beautiful I couldn’t resist it. Then my friend Sheila’s tree skirt got ruined in a cat/tree accident and I started it for her. This was all year… Read more »
Furry blanket
You see how productive I’ve been lately. It’s not that I haven’t been posting. I really haven’t finished any projects in all that time. I’ve got a few longer term projects going that will take a while longer still to finish but mainly I just haven’t been crafting much. It was a fun summer, spent… Read more »
Last batch of bowls
My machine has died. I guess it wasn’t meant to do so much satin stitching through so many layers of fabric. Here are the last three bowls it managed to turn out before biting the dust.
Sparkle bobble baby blanket
It’s hard to get a good picture of this yarn. The variegated yarn is somewhat lighter and more pastelly than it appears in the photo and it has a sparkle thread running through it. This is the second blanket I’ve made from Our Best Baby Afghans. It’s for my cousin Peter’s first baby.
Holiday bowls
Can you say obsessed? I started working with my stash of holiday fabric. This is the basic square pattern but I made it smaller. The size called for in the book makes a pretty big bowl. I ran out of the gold thread I was using so this one has a different color thread along… Read more »
Fabric Bowls
When I first read through Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls I was a little intimidated by the unusual materials and the need to do satin stitching which I’d never done on my machine. So I put the book away for a while. What a mistake! It turns out that the fabric bowls really are… Read more »
Other fairlytale puppets
Here are the rest of the fairytale puppets – a king, a queen, a jester, and a knight. These were fun to make: choosing little scraps of interesting materials and trim. I especially had a good time with the jester who’s made out of a few fat quarters. Here’s the whole gang. That’s the dragon… Read more »