laughing purple goldfish designs

The embellishing of the crochet hook case with scrap embroidery thread continues…
Who knows where it will end???

Some days I feel super creative… I’m driven to push boundaries, and work outside my comfort zone.
Other days I just like to stick to the straight and narrow.
No prizes for guessing which zone I was in when I started embellishing the crochet hook case…

Look at what my friend Dawnie bought for me.

Isn’t she a treasure???
This is the best hook storage system that I have ever used.

Four zippered pockets…. which are just the right size.
Pocket 1 contains bits and pieces – wool needles, scissors, gauge ruler, tape measure, etc.
Pocket 2 contains my 3mm and 4mm hooks
Pocket 3 contains the [...]

Guess what guys???
We have a super sleuth among us…
Three big cheers for VJESTICICA who managed to track down the pattern for these bootees!!!
You can find the pattern in this book here which is available for sale from Annie’s Attic.
Mind you, that’s not where I got the pattern from…
I used this book here:

Some of you Aussie [...]

Sometimes it’s fun to allow a project to morph into whatever it wants to be.

This pincushion started life as a wing for a bird, cut from a felted jumper and trimmed with a blanket stitch edging.
But I decided not to go ahead with that plan… so it lay around wastefully for a while.
A lonely, single [...]

here’s another embellishment, photographed as it comes together
a small felt heart

unply some yarn, because it would be too chunky otherwise

use one strand to blanket stitch around

add a button

needs something more

colour behind? yes… but not this one

I prefer this colour

cut into a heart

but it doesn’t look shabby enough…
so:
snip around the edges

still not shabby enough
moisten and scrunch

ahh…. [...]

I know that you hear me talk about it a lot… but have you ever wondered what this EMBELLISHING thing is all about???
Essentially, it is DECORATING
or ADORNING
or MAKING IT LOOK PRETTY…
But the big question is:
HOW DO YOU DO IT???
It’s kind of hard to explain.
I know that doesn’t help any, but it’s kind of one of [...]