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bellie bug

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Remember the Junk Drawer Challenge???
The idea was to take three or more items from your junk drawer, and create something new with them…
I didn’t think that I was going to have time to play along, but then I managed to put this little bug together while chatting on the phone the other day.
Multi-tasking… it’s the [...]

junk challenge!

Monday, June 7th, 2010

We all have a junk drawer, don’t we?
Well… maybe it’s not a drawer, but a box… or a jar… or a tin…
You know.. .the kind of place where all the junky little bits and pieces from your household tend to accumulate?
I kind of end up with junk tubs all over the house, like this:

There’s random [...]

the obsolete video cassette…

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

What would you make from a video cassette, or part thereof?
You may have seen the lastest issue of Inside Crochet magazine, which features a bag I designed using magenetic tape from a VHS. Well, it’s time now for YOU to show ME what you can do with an old video cassette.
It doesn’t have to be [...]

the humble tin can

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

what would you do to transform a humble tin can into a work of art???
would you use crochet, knitting, macrame, carving, weaving, sewing, painting?.. or maybe another technique entirely…
let your creative juices run wild, and join us in the february challenge – over at the ‘laughing purple goldfish designs’ group at ravelry
you can enter the [...]