Today’s post is in memory of my mum… who passed away yesterday after a five year battle with leukemia.
She was a dignified woman, with a great deal of patience, compassion and grace. She was faithful, and giving, and possessed the most amazing strength of spirit. A close friend and confidante. I will miss her dreadfully, [...]
The finishing off was easy!
I added some recycled buttons and beads for the eyes, then threaded some beads onto garden wire to make up the head feathers. Next was a little bit of embroidered detail to the beak…
And time to add the hooks
Not feeling especially ‘wordy’ today,so I’ll let the photographs tell the story…
Really… I do!
I really wanted to start with the hook holder section of the bird, because that was going to require the most thought. I wanted to be able to insert the hooks randomly into any part of the ‘rear end’, rather than having specific holes for each one.
Most of the peacock will be stuffed [...]
A number of you have been asking me about my CREATIVE PROCESS… where do my ideas come from? how do I make a start? when does it all come together? It’s not always an easy process to explain, and it doesn’t really follow a set formula.
Not being very [...]
Very exciting day ahead… I have a spinning lesson.
I first learned to spin when I was about twelve years old… but that’s more than a few years back now! I am in desperate need of a refresher course, and Lyndy has kindly offered to share her knowledge with myself and a couple of others this [...]
I was playing around with my crazy yarn the other day, and decided to test it out on a quick scarf pattern. I crocheted the sprout scarf by Lisa Gentry, using three strands of crazy yarn held together. It’s a super speedy pattern and is also available in a knit version, although I haven’t tried [...]
These challenges are turning out to be so much fun! It really is amazing what you can achieve when you push yourself a little.
I have posted about this particular challenge several times. If you would like to see my progress through previous posts… here are the first, second, third, and fourth posts.
Just to refresh your [...]
It’s not that long ago that I was singing the praises of the humble cardboard tube, and declaring that I would absolutely not be investing money in a ball winder. But look what we have here…
In my defence… I didn’t actually buy this little gem. It was given to me by a very generous fellow [...]
I spotted this belt at an op shop earlier this year, and fell in love with it immediately. I knew I wanted to use it on a bag at some stage, either as a trim around the top, or as a strap. But no matter how many different bags I tried it on… it [...]