- My back is grumpy after I didn’t see a step down when I was coming out of a shop. *mutter* #
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I like making the odd bit of jewellery, mainly when I come across something I would like to use and inspiration strikes. I also love making chains. I could sit for hours (and often do) linking rings together into a kind of chain-mail style chain. I use a 2-in-1 or a 4-in-1 pattern depending on how wide I want it to be. Last time I went over to Hobbycraft I found these lovely leaf shaped beads in a variety of colours. I found the autumnal colour ones the most attractive and decided to make myself a set of earrings, necklace and bracelet. These are the results!
I finally got the rug properly finished, I used an iron on binding tape for the edges on the underside which worked really well. Both cats have had a go on it and Bubbles thinks it’s her new love rug (she stands and kneads on it for ages while purring her head off). Really pleased with the finished result and it’s great seeing it down in front of the fire and part of the room
Worked a bit more on the cross-stitch so it’s time for another photo
More soon! Apologies to Rolf Harris for borrowing his catchphrase So I’ve already started on my next craft project and it’s a really cute cross-stitch. I’m not going to tell you what the design is other than that! Yes, it’s mystery cross-stitch theatre The picture so far…
A picture (finally!) of the necklace and earrings Tony kindly bought me for christmas. They are by a designer called Kit Heath and I just love them
Yay me! The rug is finally finished! I just need to trim the excess and put some rug binding on before it can go down in front of the fire Here is the last in progress picture And here it is finished! I decided to set out all the pictures in thumbnail form so you could look through them all at once. For me, it’s great seeing it all come together!
I really enjoy doing cross-stitch and have done it for many years. I’ve finished a few large projects and lots of little ones as gifts for friends and family. I’ve not really kept any kind of picture record of projects that have been completed, but as Tony kindly took some pictures of the larger projects that I kept, I thought I would post them here This was the first large project I finished. Probably one of my favourites too even tho I cursed it a lot when I was doing it.
As I had 2 cats at the time, one black (my old darling Squeak) and the ever cute ginger Bubbles, I loved this one as a representation of them. Happily it is still appropriate as Fizz is also black
I couldn’t resist this kit when I saw it, it makes me smile whenever I see it on the window sill
This is the most recent one I’ve finished. It actually took 10 years from starting it to finishing it but I didn’t work on it solidly in that time, I probably packed it away for a couple of years and did other projects in the meantime. Also due to a couple of annoying errors, it ended up being unpicked completely and started again. Thankfully it wasn’t too far along when I had to do that. I’m still pleased with it now it’s finished and I just need to get a good frame for it.
I have loads of kits to be started so I will witter about it here when I decided which one to do next after the rug is finished The rug is really close to being finished now, and I’m really pleased with the way it’s turning out! Fizz is already trying to sit on it Here are some more progress pics.
I’ve been working hard on the rug, just slacking on posting pictures Anyway, enough wittering, here are some pics!
It looks a lot better in the photos than it does close up, it’s hard to see the design properly when you are working on it so it’s really good having these pics so I can see how it’s taking shape. More pics soon! |
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