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29 November 2012 ~ 1 Comment

Swirly ear warmer

Depending on how you look at it, this is either one of the quickest or one of the slowest makes I’ve ever done. My ears were FREEZING I got back from my walk with her majesty Lily of Stink this afternoon. No surprise really — the hill and the horses’ field were both still covered [...]

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22 November 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Experiments in needlefelting – Louisa’s Midnight Garden

After trying my hand at wet felting over the last few months, I was intrigued by the idea of needlefelting – less guesswork and easier to make 3D items so got myself a starter kit a few weeks ago. So far I’ve made a few basic (flattish) shapes using paper templates and a few 3D [...]

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18 October 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Whitby beach vector pic

Something I’ve been playing with today. A digital doodle-type sketch that I’ll make into some sort of fibre art/embroidery pattern one day.

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08 October 2012 ~ 2 Comments

Blogtoberfest 2012 – Corkboard string art, now with added string!

In an effort to get back into the habit of blogging regularly, I’m taking part in Blogtoberfest 2012 – at least one post a day on at least one of my blogs (full list of the posts). I finally added string to my corkboard string art/house number project the other day. I just used some [...]

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02 October 2012 ~ 0 Comments

Blogtoberfest12 – Day 2/Make 2: Corkboard (string) art

I’m taking part in Blogtoberfest 2012 across my various different blogs – at least one post a day for the month of October to get me back into blogging regularly again. I’m keeping a (growing) list of those posts for anyone interested! A bit like yesterday’s post, this is a half-finished make at the moment. [...]

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01 October 2012 ~ 2 Comments

Blogtoberfest 2012 – Day 1/Make 1: Fimo fun – a WoW hearthstone

I’ve not been blogging enough recently, for various, uninteresting reasons so inspired by Lynsey of Swirly Arts, I’ve decided to throw myself back into the blogging deep end and take part in Blogtoberfest 2012 to try to remedy my “not blogging” problem – posting every day in October, one way or another, on one site [...]

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