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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 08 2011 : 07:22:56 AM
What is everyone working on for craft related items? Currently I am working on four cross stitch items (either for charity or birthday gifts). I need to start working on two others. I have a ways to go on them though to get them completed. Here are the photos so far (one of them I don't have a pic of):
This is a Winnie the Pooh bookmark that I am making for charity;
This is a bookmark for my mil for her belated birthday (it is a little blurry and I started on a flower underneath the K)
My husband and I anniversary is coming up and we both like the show Dexter, so here is a cross stitch item so far (I will be making a cross stitch item of our wedding for either his birthday or for christmas)
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| vmfein |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 09:33:44 AM
you will have to tell me how the bobbin lace goes. I have a kit (although I heard it has been nicknamed the nightmare kit) but haven't tried it yet. I love lace! there is supposedly a bobbin lace teacher nearby me but not sure how much she charges.
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| batznthebelfry |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 04:54:15 AM
after over 2 years of not figuring out how to bobbin lace & the investment in the materials I finally found a get video on the web that helped so I have been practicing that, I am also using my round loom to make a winter hat that has a button for the neckline area...when not using it as a cover you can use it as a neck warmer...so far so good, its my first & I am using no pattern...
other project not related to sewing is I am extending my chicken coop another 6 ft so that I can add the basement chickens into the big coop area...they will have a wall separating them & a separate run since the 2 roosters will fight....motivation for that is slow coming but I hope to get it done soon as I want them in there before the 1st snow up here.....Michele'
Chickens rule!
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| vmfein |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 9:36:41 PM
Here is the most recent cross stitch item I am making. It will be a cat teacup that will be donated to a charity group. Eventually it will be put with other teacup cross stitch items others have made into a quilt for a senior citizen. I think the lady who receives the quilt will enjoy it. I just need to get it done by the 15th.
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 09:42:04 AM
unfortunately I don't have any. I have never sold at a festival before.
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| nin1952 |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 08:29:04 AM
No I haven't sold anything. This will be my first time. Any advice?
Donna Farmgirl Sister #1487
Wheather therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 07:54:57 AM
good luck Donna, have you ever sold your items before at a festival?
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 07:53:27 AM
I love redwork, bluework and greenwork. huge fan =0)
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| melody |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 07:44:46 AM
Red-Work, Red-Work, and more Red-work!
Melody
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| nin1952 |
Posted - Aug 31 2011 : 07:22:04 AM
I am sewing, sewing, sewing, making dolls to sell at our fall festival the first weekend in October. I am also teaching my great neice to sew. Pray for me. And I have a Thanksgiving horn of plenty, tatting and whatever else I can find time to do. Can you tell I like to craft? LOL
Donna Farmgirl Sister #1487
Wheather therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. 1 Corinthians 10:31
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 30 2011 : 6:33:12 PM
this was my gift I made for my husband on our anniversary. We are both Dexter fans and originally it wasn't going to be a anniversary gift but I completed it first. He liked it, although I think next time he wants one that he can put in his office at work.
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| katmom |
Posted - Aug 28 2011 : 3:28:11 PM
hey Val, love your needlework art. :>)
I haven't done much in the way of Cross Stitch these days.... but up to my eyeballs in crochet rag rugs (Christmas is coming up!) lol!
>^..^<
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| Breanna |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 2:20:52 PM
I have lots of projects going on too- btw I love your cross stitch- I am working on my farmgirl embroidery badge (a sampler), horse intermediate badge, a quilt- called my Colorado quilt because it has applique blocks of pikes peak, bears, elk, deer, and a log cabin. I love crafting! Sorry I don't have any pics right now. Happy crafting!
Farmgirl Bre
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 05:56:15 AM
farmdream the pattern looks great.
Can't wait to see others pics when available. I need to finish the Dexter cross stitch today, as it is our anniversary tomorrow. His gift was originally going to be a birthday gift later on, but I decided to give him the Dexter one earlier instead.
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 05:31:58 AM
Love those violets on the compact, Valerie! So pretty.
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| levisgrammy |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 05:30:55 AM
Have LOTS of projects going but currently I am crocheting Christmas gifts and doing embroidery for that also.
I have an ongoing cross stitch. I have been working on it, on and off for years,yikes! But I picked it back up again. It is nine little pictures of different areas of a farm. When it is finished it makes one big picture. I think it was designed so that either the whole picture could be done or it could be a row of three or just one individual and they would still all look complete that way. It is on 28 count so I had to invest in a magnifying glass to help me out.
Also sewing a dress for my granddaughter.
farmgirl sister#43
O, a trouble's a ton or a trouble's an ounce,
Or a trouble is what you make it!
And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts,
But only--how did you take it?
--Edmund C. Vance.
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| FarmDream |
Posted - Aug 25 2011 : 6:29:41 PM
I'm working on this with some sock yarn. Very easy.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/hitchhiker
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| Dorinda |
Posted - Aug 24 2011 : 05:30:42 AM
I am cross stiching a sock monkey pillow case for my grandson. Very cute. Love your creations.
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| tammyknit |
Posted - Aug 23 2011 : 2:38:32 PM
A halloween cross-stitch project, knitting a sweater, a pair of socks, and a neck warmer for DD for Christmas, also bought the yarn to my my mom a hat and scarf, just got the pattern to make a horse wallhanging for my DD for Xmas and a state of Wisconsin wallhanging for my dad for Xmas, also a bed quilt for myself in my spare time.
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| AmyDawn |
Posted - Aug 23 2011 : 12:53:48 PM
I have a few projects that I am currently working on. I have a cross stitch of a teddy bear sitting in a chair that is about 3/4 done, fixing my sons afghan that I made for him when he was a baby (13 years ago), a rug that I am crocheting with dishrag yarn, and my knitting. I just taught myself how to knit so I am making strips to stitch together as an afghan. Each strip is a different color, and apparently I am pretty slow because it is taking FOREVER to get through a small (5oz I think) skein of yarn. Maybe it won't make it into an afghan after all, maybe they will be scarves - we'll see.... I have a bunch of other unfinished projects that I will pull out and work on if I want something else to do. I am also always scrapbooking as well. |
| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 12:01:03 PM
lol I felt the same way about wanting to chuck the shuttle.
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| LaceMistress |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 11:03:19 AM
thanks, vmfein. I taught myself to tat last summer (after a week of chucking the shuttle across the room and the cat using it for a hockey puck as a result) and finally mastered it a few months ago.
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 10:55:10 AM
I love tatting and lace. I tried it with the shuttle and found for me that the needle tatting is easier. I am teaching myself so I haven't made anything yet, just practicing. I love dishcloths as well. Good luck at the festival!
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| LaceMistress |
Posted - Aug 17 2011 : 10:51:53 AM
Working at shuttle tatting a doily and numerous earrings/lace by the yard for a series of upcoming festivals in September that I have promised to do demos in tatting and crochet for. I'm also going to make several crocheted sponges and dishcloths for selling at the festivals, I think....I could at least get some halfway decent gas money out of it!
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 16 2011 : 7:13:29 PM
For my other grandmother here is her belated birthday gift. It is from a counted cross stitch compact mirror kit that I completed and gave to her this past weekend.
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| vmfein |
Posted - Aug 09 2011 : 3:39:29 PM
Here is more progress that I have gotten done on the bookmark for my mil.
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