August Craft Thread

jeremysgirl A housekeeper (imagine I’m actually squeezing, cause I am lol). So excited for you to have someone to take things off your plate. Here’s to filling it with things that make you smile!

lainey and RedSquirrelUK I hope you are both doing better quickly.

Tom is adorable and I have a friend who has a low-grade crush on him. I told her we needed to have an age rule, something about if they’re born after we got married (26 yrs this year for both of us) they’re probably too young. But she rejected that idea Anyway, I have taken my knitting in public and gotten the strangest looks. But if you’re just sitting there I’d rather do that than waste time playing around on my phone!

My goals for this month are to finish assembling my Christmas cards that I started an embarrassing number of years ago, and to get them addressed. Too often I don’t finish my cards and push them back to the next year (and the next, and the next). But this year, since my entire house is decluttered I am down to a lot of projects to tackle. I am concentrating on them and determined to make a huge dent. Most aren’t craft projects, because I am okay having a section in my closet of craft projects to look forward to. But certain ones not being finished make me twitchy. I already addressed my Valentines cards, that’s all that was missing because I finished them ages ago. Even have the stamps on them. Feels great, and soon I’ll have these to add to my bulk ready to mail out cards box!

Last month I was mostly sewing felt plushies for my kids’ sewing classes,
but last week I made another Luna Lapin rabbit with a summer patchwork dress and embroidered denim jacket. My mom loves them and it’s her 80th at the end of the month. I also have a highland cow made but I’m having trouble with his kilt!

I also finally made the H2O To Go bag. I bought the pattern from Etsy in December but didn’t have any waterproof fabric for the inside. It’s great because it fits a giant water bottle in the main compartment and has a zipper pocket on the front for phone, etc. I love it for daily dog walks in the heat.

I’m also lucky enough to have a cleaner come once a week. She doesn’t clean my sewing room though. I tidy the house the evening before she arrives and it’s just extra pressure to tidy to sewing room as i often have projects all over the place.
Also, I never have monthly goals for my creative projects, unless it’s for a gift and needs to be completed by a specific date. I just do whatever I feel like doing, whether it’s painting, sketching, sewing, paper crafts, etc.

Thanks. I bought it a few weeks ago just because I liked it. I still have 3/4 metre left so hopefully I’ll find another project for it.

malibou This is the Etsy link. I first saw it as a YouTube tutorial by Oklaroots but it’s designed and sold by LindsHandmade.


www.etsy.com/uk/listing/879323499/h20-2go-sling-pdf-sewing-pattern?ref=shop_home_feat_2

muggins I don't suppose you have the name of the manufacturer/designer of that black and white fabric do you? It looks very like some scrapbooking stiffened fabric I bought years ago and I'm just wondering if it could be the same designer. I think the name was Michael someone, maybe Michael Morris? If I can get at it I'll dig out what I have of his to see but I thought you might just know??

ETA - I've remembered!  It was Michael Miller.    Is your fabric designed by him?

gillyp I bought the fabric here in Tokyo. It’s not Michael Miller though. Just made in Japan.

Thank you jeremysgirl

I had a couple of those and loved them. My ex-bil made me an ocean bottle that had blue liquid in it that you turned over and it frothed about in a way that made it look like ocean waves crashing.

Thank you scrapmaven. And ditto.

Ladies, a Ravelry question. Is there a knack to using their search feature? I've spent half of today going round in circles trying to re-find things that I found once, but don't show up in the search engine. For example, I found several yarns and made a note of the makes/numbers etc. but when I come to search for them using the exact same criteria, they show as No Results Found. The same happens with patterns. I find a project which links to a pattern but I can only get to the pattern from that project, not by searching for it.

All I'm trying to do is to find an acrylic yarn I love, then reviews and washing instructions, and finally where to find it to buy it. It shouldn't be this difficult!

This isn't fancy like the wool works everyone else posts but I thought I'd share my little baby blanket anyway. I like to have something to do while I watch tv with dh in the evening and more often than not, I would be binding a quilt, but I have lost my quilting mojo so I decided to pull out a crochet hook and some yarn. It's been quite a few years since I did anything with wool and I am quite happy I started again. I am just making pretty basic things for now - makes it easy to keep up with Barnaby on Midsomer Murders, lol.

@patter I’ve just joined 🙂

rgibson Your baby blanket is so pretty and delicate. Lovely.