The end of the world? Probably not. But, before we get to the ending, I have a couple of photos I squirrelled away that I want to share with you.
Remember my needle felted butterlies?
I finally got round to making them into brooches! I sewed the brooch back on. In the book I used, it said to place a bit of roving over the brooch back and needle felt it in place. Having observed that the front comes through to the back when needling, I decided to just sew them on instead!
I also realised I've never shown you the talents of Mr F. He has many talents, though only one in the craftosphere that I've found so far. He makes these bracelets:
I believe it's a form of macrame. I bought him a book for his birthday and he branched out into patterns such as this:
and this! Pretty impressive, eh?
So, this here ending? Do you remember this?
and these?
It's been a while since I updated you on my weekly glass class. Mainly because we broke up for summer. We started back the week I was in Tunisia, clearly I didn't start back that week, I started back last week. I got quite a bit of cutting done.
Then on Wednesday night I finished all of the glass cutting completely.
OK, that's a bit of a lie. I clearly haven't cut out some of the areas where the fused glass leaves will go, and I have to cut holes for glass nuggets all round that clear border, and some in the "patchwork" panel too. But the outline is done!
Next week I start leading. I'll have to do a bit of cutting (for the nuggets and leaves), a LOT of grinding (to get the edges to fit nicely in the lead), then I'll be adding pieces of lead to the whole thing and cementing it! Still loads of work to do, but it feels so great to have finally finished all that cutting. I got more cutting done in the last two weeks than I did in the entire first term.
You'll have to excuse my glass photos, I have to take them in the workshop, at night, with no natural light. Also, as the panel is so big and I'm so short, I have to hold the camera above my head! Hopefully I'll be able to update you more next week.
Tomorrow I have a craft class at the Bead Shop, so loads to share next week.
Good morning ladies! I've just popped in quickly to write this post, then I'm off to get my hair cut. I haven't had my hair cut since just after my wedding. I got married in April 2010. Ooops. It's starting to resemble a mop and somedays I look like a scarecrow (albeit a rather rotund scarecrow) and other days I look more like the Wild Woman of Borneo... time to get it cut!
Last night I played along with FSNI hosted by Handmade by Heidi and Crafty Vegas Mom.
Except I didn't sew. No. I had planned to, I was going to handstitch some felt flowers for which I was pretty sure I had a pattern in one of the craft books downstairs. I didn't. I couldn't be bothered to go upstairs. Yes, I am that lazy but in my defence I'm always tired on a Friday night and I just had the week from hell at work.
I had, however left my felting supplies and books on the dining room table. 6 paces. I could manage that. I wanted to make myself a brooch, I love brooches but have so few of them.
Enter my needlefelted butterfly. It's taken from Wool Pets by Laurie Sharp. I love it. But... it has two major flaws.
It's bigger than I wanted, and it's too thin. I decided to try again.
I tried to make this one thicker and smaller and ended up making it thicker and wonkier! Attempt number 3.
I succeeded in size, but perhaps not the shape. I thought I'd have a go at decorating it anyway. I do quite like it and may add a brooch back. People seeing me wearing it will probably think I'm bonkers, but no change there then.
Still in a feltingly mood and hooked on the return of Sharon to Eastenders not to mention the saga between Ben and Shirley, I got out Quick and Clever Felting by Ellen Kharade and flicked through. I found this paisley motif as part of a felted purse. I thought it would look nice as a brooch. I needle felted the white base, added in the purple and turquoise elements (the turquoise is a LOT more vibrant than in the picture, I just couldn't get the colour right) and then hand stitched on some beads. So I did sew for the FSNI!
I thought you might like to see the back of a needle felted piece - quite funky! I think I will add a brooch back to this one. I don't like the white I chose at the base, but overall I think it works. Am I deluded?? So, that's two more for my Craft Book Challenge. It's been ages since I made anything from a book other than Zakka Style!
Right, I'm off to get those split ends removed... I may be quite some time...
