Do you still recognise it?
What can I say?
The felted bowl has morphed itself into a handbag… ta da!
(click here for the before shots)
Lined with red gingham, and sporting an obligatory felted heart. Yes, I am addicted to adding felted hearts at the moment…
here’s the view from the back…
and the inside looks like this…
Really not feeling the love for this felted bowl. It has finished drying, but remains floppy… and I really don’t like the shape of it. Plus I’m finding the grey colour to be very drab.
All is not lost though… I am working on a makeover for it… next time you see this boring floppy felted [...]
Wet wool… is there anything that smells worse?
How about hot wet wool… definitely much worse!
For those of you not familiar with the felting process, I’ll give you a quick rundown of how it works. Basically you take your beautifully knitted project and subject it to hot soapy water and lots of agitation. Treat it as [...]
Decided to have another bash at this whole felting business again. I find the process fascinating. The very idea of mistreating your knitted work so badly that it destroys the stitches and felts to itself seems ridiculous. And yet it is so very popular at the moment. I’m always curious to compare the ‘before’ and [...]
Not quite sure what happened to me this month. I started out crafting like a mad woman, and then dropped completely off the radar. I think I just got distracted by life. My mind was busy with all sorts of other issues… and the craft just didn’t happen.
I have had so many wonderful people helping [...]
Work has finally begun on the ‘bag born from bags’ project.
Remember the plastic yarn (plarn) I was plying recently? Well, it’s time for it to become a plastic bag again!
In the past, when working with plastic, I have stripped it and used two strands at a time to crochet. The resulting material almost looks like [...]
I adore these little clogs. You might remember I picked them up on my travels a few months back. Not that I was in Holland, more like the local second hand store. I had no immediate plans for them, but I had fallen in love with them and I knew I had to have them! [...]
Is 40 really the new 30? Whatever does that mean?
We tell ourselves some quite bizarre tales sometimes. My dear friend is hoping that as many people as possible ask her in the next week or so, how old she is. That way she can honestly answer that she is still in her 30s! I totally [...]
Beautiful, magnificent, wonderful sunshine! Barely a cloud in sight.
It meant I was able to do my unravelling outdoors, which I love. It can be quite a dusty and messy task. Lots of airborne particles flying around and an ever growing pile of yarn droppings which fall at your feet. Working outdoors is ideal. Fabulous fresh [...]
Well, I launched right into this afghan and was loving the results. Then I realised how much yarn I was using up. Since this was such a spur of the moment project, I just grabbed some yarn from my stash and started hooking… without really thinking it through. I’m not going to have enough yarn [...]