Making Stars and Discussing Trailer Life

Or  “What we did after eating all that Turkey”.
When my dad was a kid, he learned to make these Moravian Stars.  He has many times attempted to teach my sister and I how to do these…and we never quite caught on.  Dad has taught all sorts, from church craft groups to Boy Scouts to the [...]

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Tis the Season for Mini Knitted Ornaments

The coffee table is piled up with Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks That Rock Yarn (henceforth referred to as “BMFA STR” and the needles are flying as Chris and I watch Season’s 5 and 6 of NCIS.
Total count of Mini Knitted Ornaments this year (so far):
1 sweater
1 mitten
1 stocking
5 round ornaments

I have knitted a few [...]

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Christmas on the Up-Cycle

Here are some earrings I made last week with Christmas in mind, I was trying to go for a holly leaf with berries on it.
My mom and I spent some time making bead stuff last week.   She is really enjoying herself, of course that is because she always hands of the tying off and/or [...]

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Scary Knitted Objects Alert!

Giant Pink Bunny this thing looks like some play structures I’ve seen inside shopping malls.
House, tree, bike…whatever, lets cover it in a cozy!
Voodoo Doll tell me you haven’t wanted one!
Recycled Knit House clearly they have too much time on their hands!
Grenade Cozies you too can make a fashion statement in Iraq!
Bomb Cozy Uhm,  its  [...]

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Even More Instant Gratification Necklaces

Here I was having fun combining my wire pounding and bending lessons with the necklaces.

Turns out the little bits I practiced various techniques on (like the scroll pictured at top) were just the perfect size for attaching the “little pretties” that Susan brought home from Shipwreck Beads.

There is one missing from this group…a horror story [...]

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Boing! Boing! More Shop Hopping!

Chris was up for a drive down to the beach, via the Quilt Shop Hop Way, so we loaded the car with water, warmer clothes and hopped on down to Albany.
Where we waited for the shop to open.
Then we got our “passport” stamped, picked up our free quilt block design and material, and a few [...]

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More Practice with the Wire Jewelry

So, this time I had the right wire and followed the pattern suggested, and it turned out pretty O.K. considering.  I am still on the learning curve here.

Practice, practice, practice.

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Look at all my little pretties!

Susan and Gail were at a show in Tacoma last week and just “had” to stop at Shipwreck Beads in Lacey on the way.
They picked out a nice, varied selection of pendants for me to hang off of the Instant Gratification Necklaces I’ve been making with her Mighty sock.
It is such a beautiful way to [...]

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Beads on a wire

So I was practicing this wire twisting stuff.   This is my short little piece that I did first, then I found it so easy and appealing that I did this:
and then I made a little pile of these: 
and then I noticed that it was 1am and I thought I might toddle off [...]

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It’s Easy Being Green

Who said it was difficult?
Just string one green fluorite chip after one green glass bead after another…the only difficult part was sorting through them all to get the best green to green matches.
You’d be surprised how many times the chip looked perfectly good, and then it shows up with some other color in it [...]

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