Archive for the ‘Project’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Well in my heart anyway. Outside it's raining.
After a few months of Hell, I woke up yesterday feeling just fine. I am not in much pain today either. I find this really strange. Other than that one day in April, I cannot remember feeling just fine. I just can't believe ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
All work and no knitting has made me cranky and uninspired. I took some time in the past few days to knit some more and spent most of the day today spring cleaning. I have a million things to code and bill but sincerely, I cannot concentrate anymore after 4-5 ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
Instead of an Easter Egg Hunt we had an Easter Egg Make. Marie-Tangerine applied miscellaneous sequins to felt egg shapes to create gifts for everyone. We also watched the first season of Full House. I had never watched that show before and boy does John Stamos have big hair! Marie-Tangerine ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
Project: Armies from felted sweater sleeves
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You'll need:
Felted sweater a bit too small for you
Embroidery thread in a few coordinated colors
I acquired a gaudy black wool sweater a while back. I felted the sweater (threw it in with the warm water wash). I then removed the collar and ...
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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
I have not posted about something very precise but I am having craft ADD. More precisely I am doing a little here and there because I do not have long periods of time to work on one specific thing.
WIP: Scooby Doo pants
Going well. It is a bit annoying to embroider ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
After having PCOS for 15 years I am still surprised when PMS rears it's head every month. For the past few days I have been feeling like crap (with much more chronic pain than usual) and I couldn't figure out why. Like Duh!
So yesterday my gift to myself was an ...
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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Project: Recycled Coca-Cola Valentines.
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You'll need:
Cardboard box from your favorite food, ideally red. I am using Coca-Cola slim 12-pack boxes.
Cardboard to make heart template.
Fiskar hole puncher, the small one.
Twine or Hemp cord. You could also use yarn.
4-6mm beads. I am using Indian metal beads recycled from a necklace ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008
Project: Creating a Cross Stitch Pattern from a .ICO file
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You'll need:
Aida cloth remnant larger than 32x32
Embroidery thread to match your design
Embroidery needle
Printer
Icon Edit
Snagit
Back in September I realized that I could take any windows icon and make a cross stitch chart out of it. I figured ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007
Project: Recycling A Shirt Into A Travel Pillow Cover.
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You'll need
Used cotton shirt (Maybe that almost pink shirt you gave your husband that he never wore or that 70s print shirt you bought yourself but never had the guts to wear in public.) Mine is a very pretty ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Project: Bling my pants
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You'll need
Item of clothing or pants (jeans may be too think for this project)
Embroidery or sewing thread in a contrasting color
4mm beads in a coordinating color
Needle
I thought I might as well add something cute to pants I had to hem. I used embroidery floss ...
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