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(And before you ask where our creations are...let’s just say it’s a pretty poor show at GNHQ. One of us - ok, me - had to be cut free from a chair during their only attempt at knitting and that seems to be par for the course round these parts.)
I'm making a Christmas Village landscape (complete with train) to display my collection of Lilliput Lane buildings accrued over the past 20 years. I used to display them every Christmas but since we moved they've stayed in the loft. So enforced house arrest prompted me to create a better landscape for them. It's fun to do - and very messy!
I'm also about to start making a quilt for our newest grandchild, born last week, just waiting for the fabrics to be delivered.
Also have a couple of upcycling projects in mind, if I have time.
What lovely things you have all been creating. I will try my hand at most crafts but my new year resolution last year and this is to use up my stash of craft materials. I have made cushions for my outside benches - one using jeans my daughter left here- and have just dragged out a quilt I started about 40 years ago that is small hexagons out of scraps it is now about the size of double bed so am going to repurpose an old blanket and sheet for the batting and back- well that is the plan.
My sewing group has been making blankets for the local hospital out of 6 inch squares so easy to use left over wool to crochet or knit them. When we have enough we see it together and crochet a border.
Love seeing the photos will have to take some on my iPad and can then post.
Happy crafting everyone.
What a beautiful shawl, ditto that cushion cover. So many lovely things. I do admire your patience, GrannyLaine! If I’d ever embarked on that, it would have ended up as a UFO (unfinished object) after a lot of very unladylike rude words.
I’m using up some of my vast, multicoloured stash to (very prematurely!) making these. (Very easy.). I think the stash will run to half a dozen, so I dare say some will be going to Gdcs’ little friends eventually.
I’m even thinking of a suitably time-consuming 3rd Nativity set (apologies for unseasonal references!) - the 2nd went down very well at their pre-school/reception but the elder will be at a different site for year one in September - assuming things are back to some sort of normal by then...
Thought I had posted, but don't know where it went!
Love the cushion cover Nortsat, and your shawl is beautiful GrannyLaine
Here are my latest makes, a Tiger Beanie for GGS, and cushion covers I knitted last year.
Wow!!!! So many clever people on this wonder site. I love doing crafts with knitting being my favourite. I knit dog blankets for Battersea Cats/Dogs home. At the moment I am making large Patchwork cushion covers and waiting until all of this virus is gone and getting some stuffing from The Range. Also I am making myself a knitted wool jumper for next winter. I have a stash of wool and thought it would be a good idea to get some new jumpers made for me as I always knit for others. I’ll try and send a photo later.
Why didn't I look at the Arts and Crafts forum before ??????? There are obviously so many very talented people on here. Love these items you have all been making.
My latest makes are this chair I recovered and a painting to match done on an old canvas from a charity shop. Not an expert at either but I muddle through.
Not proper crafting, but am currently cutting down a double duvet cover to make a single cover. The cut offs will be turned into a curtain border, and added to a flat, white sheet for the rest of the curtain.
This is part of a project for my grandsons bedroom, for his birthday in 2 weeks. He’s obsessed with dinosaurs, even talks in his sleep about them!
His mum (an artist) has painted a 4 food dinosaur to be cut out for his door. She also cut out dinosaur card shapes, and I’ve sewn them into bunting. The other bunting is last years, hand-cut and sewn by me, but coordinates with the new bedroom.
Last years bedroom decoration was Hungry Catepillar, with painted leaf, sun and caterpillar, now donated to our local library for the children’s section.
By popular demand, I'm going to be making more little phone bags for ladies using walkers or sticks as they move around their flats/houses.
The strap pops around their neck and their phone is safely in the bag.
We have found that because the needlepoint designs I'm sewing are flowers, and they can chose the design they like, they are more likely to use the phone bag and, we hope, stay safer.
Gaunt47, I might well make one of those for a dd - the one who, when we were seeing her often ?, was endlessly saying, ‘Has anyone seen my phone?’
More than once I’ve said I’ll glue it to her head!
My craft group suggested making “something useful” using the colours of daffodils, hyacinths and tulips. This is my effort...
We are being told off on another thread for ordering craft materials so perhaps we shouldn't be encouraged.
Although I do have many UFOs to complete.
So many lovely items on here, well done all of you.
Mopsx4 I made the same resolution! So far I have knitted 2 snoods and finished a child’s cardigan, made a bag for DGD and finished the repairs on DHs trousers then planted 7 packets of old seeds ( well they may come up!). I am halfway through another cardigan but have been told DGD wants a knitted blanket like her brother has. That will put a stop to using up left overs! Keep it up girls!
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