Resourceful Crafter and DIYer; Yes. Organized; Not So Much.
This is on my to do list for my nephew’s birthday! It may even be nice to have for this year’s camping trips.
Southern Disposition: Pillow Mattress Tutorial via dcoração.
This is really cool.
Beware the Moon’s Skull Wallpaper. Skulls aren’t just for Halloween anymore and so I loved the post on Remodelista about Beware the Moon’s Skulls Collection Wallpaper here. I went to their really odd-in-a-good-way site and picked out my favorite photo of the wallpaper at Beware of the Moon here.
Coming Soon!
Here’s where I’ll post tutorials that I’ve made and links to ones I’ve found elsewhere.
This takes love of your craft and patience! I love it!!!
This is my design for a Crocheted Wedding Gown. It is entirely crocheted with the Crocodile Stitch in a fine microfiber satin thread. It took me 3 weeks of insane crocheting. My wrists almost fell apart. Luckily I was able to finish it in time to model it at the Crochet Guild of America Fall Conference Fashion Show. The Calla Lilly flowers in the bouquet were crocheted by my mother. Yep, it takes a family to make a crocheted wedding.
Fall Wreath Part 1
One of the projects I’ve been working on these past few weeks is a fall wreath. I’ve never actually made a wreath before so I was a little intimidated by the idea.
The project started with a facebook conversation between myself and one of my best friends and fellow crafter Heather. We were talking about the usual; our weekly schedules and project ideas. Heather wanted to craft a yarn wreath for fall and thought it’d be nice if we worked on it together.We planned a day to get the supplies and work on the wreaths.
The day came and after running some errands we ended up at the craft store. Now as some of you may know; for crafters to get into and out of a craft store in a fairly descent amount of time is, well rare. For Heather and I it’s even rarer.
We wandered the aisles looking at all the items and getting ideas for future projects. Plus they had Halloween items out. Who can pass those by? We got our supplies (myself being a little indecisive and causing another trip around the store), checked out and headed home.
When we got back to my house we started our wreaths. They required winding yarn around the wreath form first. After almost two hours of winding the yarn around the forms Heather had to go and we each finished the winding within the next few days. I also worked on making flowers for the wreath.
Here’s what the base of the wreath looks like.
The next time we got together to craft we began to finish our wreaths. Mind you I can and do get distracted easily; especially on the project front since I have so many going on at once :), so Heather finished her wreath in no time and I had managed to figure out where I wanted the flowers and play around with adding feather to it as well.
I used straight pins to attach the flowers until I was comfortable enough with the placement to glue them down. They’re still pinned. Not because I don’t like where they’re at but because there seems to be something missing and until I figure out what it is I’m not gluing.
So it has been and will continue to sit on one of the shelves until the missing element shows up. As of now it looks pretty good but not quite finished.
I think I like the look of the pins in the flowers. They just may stay.
I’m on to a few more projects and will post as I progress with them.
Have any of you had a project that was missing something that you couldn’t “put your finger on”?
