are any of you into it?

i love embroidery. i can't draw worth squat but i embroider anything.

am also working on some other cool craft projects, while on summer break... like recycling ordinary plastic shopping bags by cutting them into strips and crocheting them into one big bag...

so... who likes to make stuff around here? any cool do-it-yourself links?

look at this site:

www.sublimestitching.com


and this one

http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com

for a bit of inspiration... haha!
[This message was edited Wed Jul 28 11:36:51 2004 by Heiress]

so nobody knows how, eh?

here's some links:

http://www.needlepoint.org/Stitch.htm

http://www.make-stuff.com/

http://www.getcrafty.com/index.html

and last but not least... recycled paper:

http://tinyurl.com/5afsm

we had to do a really basic version of this at primary school, like at age 6 or something.

i couldn't even do basic sewing. so i got made to go and sit in the corner and slap myself.

OK,I am not gonna be embarrased.

Since an early age I have always been creative.

My Nana taught me how to knit at 4. I knit, not alot but I do knit some wild fonkay stuff.

I sew. Not great at making clothes but I do make other bits and pieces.

Obviously I draw - I mean I do it everyday for a living.

I paint and do all that artsy stuff.

I make things from wood, glass, metal etc etc

I once made a whole load of earrings and sold them in Spain.

I can embroider, make lace and other shit.

Ok - I am done

Basically, I am good with my hands

TheFrog said:

You poor darling!!

REDFEATHERS said:

thank you! i wish you'd been my teacher instead of Mr Wilson (aka "willy bob").

TheFrog said:

I can be your teacher now

REDFEATHERS said:

bravo, you! any good how-to links to share?

i've done all of the above... except tatting and knitting.

i swear, i'll learn to knit one day. the two needles look so... intimidating.

what do you think of these:

http://www.newportnewstim...ty01.txt


it's the bag i'm trying to make. chance are, it won't look quite as good!

by the way, red, did your grandma teach you any of these things?

mine taught me embroidery, and purling. and how to polka!

TheFrog said:

we had to make stuffed animals in jr. high.

i still have mine somewhere... a seagull named norris.

mostly what i remember about that class, tho, was a kid who ran a sewing machine needle all the way through his thumb

Heiress said:

Knitting and sewing only. The rest was self taught or learned at school

hey Heiress, I'd be interested in seeing your crocheted plastic bag... sounds cool!

I knit, sew, embroider, cross stitch, quilt, all that crap. Been doing it for ages and have always had an interest (as well as a knack) for that kind of stuff. I "fix" a lot of my clothes - because I have such a weird body, I'm constantly making shirts tighter, making trousers shorter, taking out the waist completely, etc.

REDFEATHERS said:

grandmas rule!

Natsume said:

oh dang, i'm going to quilt one of these days, i swear.

recovered a bunch of squares my grandma had made and never used... stitched them into pillow covers. they're gorgeous!

i alter & customize clothes a lot too. i like vintage and that stuff almost always needs some touching up...

did you see the shopping bag link? i'll have to post mine when it's done... hope to have it finished in the next two weeks. am supposed to show another person in my american club how to do this, so she can make a few of these for a fundraiser... guess i'd better get to it, huh?

Heiress said:

this is cool! I'm wondering if I'll be able to knit a bag instead of crocheting it? do you think that would work?

You can knit some funky jewellery too, using fine wire and beads and shit

Natsume said:

i don't see why not...

the plastic is a little odd to work with - takes some getting used to.

you'll need a lot of bags...

REDFEATHERS said:

the jewelry i made was sculpted out of clay

with old stones from broken vintage jewelry i picked up on the cheap.

you sound like a real pro.

Heiress said:

Sounds great Heiress! We had some classes at school, I made a skirt, it was awful. :

I remember the teacher sniffed at it, I never wore it, I couldn't. I used it as a duster.

I can knit and embroidery and sew and cross-stitch, but, I've never completed any of them that I started. I go in head first and end up quitting after about an hour or two and never go back. I don't have the patience for it. I wish I did.

I went to look at your link, Heiress, but it said something about growing pains and how the page couldn't be viewed.

Lleena said:

sounds like youall have had some mean teachers.

did you and frog go to the same school, perchance?

AzureStarr said:

oh dang... i have a PILE of unfinished stuff. i couldn't possibly work on one thing at a time...

unfinished so far are:

two embroidered skirts
two purses to decorate
two embroidered pillowcases
an embroidered tea towel
two quilted pillowcovers
that crocheted recycled bag
my daughter's paper crown (in need of repair)
a pile of mending

and other stuff i'm probably forgetting all about...

it all gets done - eventually. right now i have a good dozen projects commenced. but it takes a while.

tried the links - the one that seemed messed up was this: www.sublimestitching.com

check out the customer gallery... and jenny hart's own gallery work... if the site works. seems to be OK here.

i'm going to try making portraits and the like the way she does... i'm planning on a frida kahlo.

soon as i get all this other stuff done!

Heiress said:

I went to a girls school, I guess he could have gone to my school, there was this one girl who was very pretty but she had a really deep voice and an adams apple oh my god!

Lleena said:

ah... am beginning to understand certain, ahem, tendencies of his.

Heiress said:

Hey! Watch who you are calling a pro



j/k

Heiress said:

i used to flick elastic bands at Lleena in English class, but she probably doesn't remember.

Kinda like this

REDFEATHERS said:

oh dear...

do you get called that often?

REDFEATHERS said:

that's mite perty.

is it silver wire?