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Hi friends, I'm so tired of cleaning. We had an unplanned home repair (to put it succinctly) and we ended up getting rid of a lot of stuff PDQ. We're still getting rid of stuff and this weekend I took up the challenge of cleaning out my craft room/office. The last time I did this was in 2010 - it was a major undertaking! This time it wasn't so bad, but once stuff comes out of storage for the basement, I'll be a lot choosier about what stays and what goes.

Have you cleaned the craft room lately? What crafts/interests have fallen out of favour? Any surprises or great finds?

moem

Yesterday we had fun at the local hackerspace, bleaching patterns onto T-shirts, using hand cut stencils. Here's what I made.

My three shirts hanging out to dry. I like all three of them.
( Bigger pictures )

Current Mood: satisfied

calzephyr

Hi friends, I have wanted to post for some time, but I don't get to sit down at the computer much. The weather has been so blah here and exhausting, plus I'm prepping for a comic expo at the end of the month. I felt emboldened by my bird decorations and prototyped some unicorn ones. I was really surprised by how much work it took from sketch to finished product - now only did I have to choose the paper, but I had to figure out the right way to size everything to fit on a letter sized sheet. I thought I worked out all the kinks on the first try, but I didn't. Pics under the cut.

( The meandering path to success )

redsnake05

I hope this does not fall under the heading of trading, but I thought some crafty types might be interested in a geeky craft exchange:

homemade2homemade is a new community for geeky crafters to share their obsessions and talents!

Come join us for our first gift exchange! All levels of geeks and crafters are welcome!
Sign ups begin April 1st, 2018

calzephyr

It's been hard to sit on this design as I like to post in progress pics to Instagram, but I had immense fun making these very pink Valentine's cards for a group card exchange. Each pony was hand coloured in different hues - pink, yellow, blue, purple, seafoam. Originally they were supposed to go on the outside, but I whoopsie measured. Still turned out great though!

I made some special Valentine's day cards this year for a card exchange. I hope they have all been received as it was hard to sit on them so long! Each pony was hand coloured differently - yellow, blue, pink and even seafoam

calzephyr

Hi group, I realized that there were a few things over the years that I had not taken photos of and I remedied that. One of them was a wool tapestry. It is framed under museum glass and it still looks beautiful. Like all fibre folk, I regret not being able to touch it anymore :-)

I would love to do another tapestry, but tapestry takes forever. Any progress you make is beaten down. It feels like an inch an hour sometimes!

calzephyr

Did you make any?

Will you be up all night with your glue gun?

Are you late for this year, but early for next? :-)

calzephyr

I finally got into my current project after crossing off piecemeal tasks night after night. I'm making some miniature Christmas ornaments for my co-workers. I have about 50 to make. Last year I made bells on my Pazzles die cutter, stamped them and handed them out with Hershey's Kisses. Apparently I felt the need to go 20% cooler this year, but the idea was so stuck in my mind!

Here's the prep work I had to do:

Design a light brown oval fill in CorelDraw and print six copies on vanilla cardstock

Realize after printing the first two pages that I should have also designed a greeting for the back!

Die cut each oval with a stitched shape die from Stampin' Up

Grumble about having to hand write "Happy Holidays from Christine" on the backs of 24 of them

Punch a hole in each one for gold thread

Print six copies of a cardinal illustration on pink cardstock

Fiddle all afternoon with my Pazzles to make a cut file because I'm not cutting out 50 birds!

Watch the first half of season 7 of The Vampire Diaries while die cutting branches, acorns, leaves and other things

Watch the second half of season 7 of The Vampire Diaries while gluing cardinals and naturals elements together

Whew!! One of my co-workers still has a bell in their cubicle, so I hope these are very much appreciated! Stay tuned for pictures and things :-)

ladythmpr

Craft every day in October! Think NaNaWriMo for crafting.

I created

nacramamo on DW, for those of you interested in doing the challenge this
year. I've been part of the

nacramamo community on Livejournal since 2008, and I thought that I would import the concept to DW.

It looks like a couple of people in the original LJ community are still interested, so I'll probably be cross posting my challenge progress there. (The DW nacramamo community will not be crossposted.)

lusentoj

Hi, I don't really know where else to post this question haha. I just found out that electric hand-held sewing machines exist; seems like there's a ton of different brands that are all just clones of each other:

Watch on YouTube

Has anyone here used them? I've tried reading about them but it's hard to find anyone who's actually tried to "sew" with them, everyone's just "testing them out" and then going back to their real machines. I won't have a real machine.

I've been living in a house where our only sewing machine is one of those 100-year-old electricless ones that only has 1 stitch and only forward-stitch, so the "lack of features" doesn't really bother me (although backstitch would be really nice). I was planning on using it for all kinds of general sewing just like a normal machine. I even tried searching on kickstarter to see if anyone's improving these things and can't find anything...

lusentoj

Hey guys! I'm going on exchange for a year (to Japan) and while throwing out all my junk realized I have a ton of books I own but've never read. If I wanted to bring them with me they'd take up a lot of space/weight. To try and solve this I'm reducing their bulk and (eventually) giving them new covers so they look like something I'd actually want to read. I think that ESPECIALLY if you buy large-print books, or textbooks, doing this could really help out. The books definitely feel more "accessible" and "readable" now, it's kind of hard to explain.

For example, this 477g (22x15cm) hardcover book was reduced to 295g (18x13cm).

( Read more... )

I don't know what to tag this as, sorry!

calzephyr

Hi there, I just wanted to introduce myself. I guess I joined awhile ago, but I'm only starting to use DW more. I posted a lot on Craft Grrrl on LJ. I do a lot of machine knitting and papercrafts along with drawing and painting too. I hope to share some projects this weekend with you all when I have more time to round up pictures.

alexseanchai

I have been trying and trying to find cardboard easel photo frames small enough for my purposes. It has to fit flat in a Royal Dansk 12oz cookie tin. My booklets just fit—they're 4.25x5.5"; looking at the tin and booklet with a ruler in hand, 4x6" would work, but only just—which means a frame designed to hold a 4x6" photo is going to be too big. Hence my problem, because apparently 4x6" is the smallest photo anyone would want to put in a store-bought cardboard easel frame!

So I am thinking my best bet is to take card stock, cut it so I have a stack of pieces where the outside dimensions are 4x6", and cut a centered 3x5" hole in half of those pieces. I could then glue each such frame itself and my 3x5" art to a hole-less 4x6" piece of card stock.

If I cut carefully enough when making the hole in the frame piece, I can use that piece to make the easel back. I think what I want for that is a right triangle with a rectangle on the longer leg, and I score along the triangle-rectangle border so it will fold without complaint, and I glue the rectangle to the back of the frame so that the triangle can either be out to the back (for display) or flat to the frame (for storage). I guess that means slicing a right triangle with 2" and 5" legs off of the 3x5" rectangle I'm cutting out.

Does that sound like a thing that will work?

moem

I made a thing; it's a lazy, quick&dirty, happy hippy version of this thing.

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I used fake seaglass, wrapped in glow-in-the-dark 3D printing filament, as a decoration; in the daytime, that looks nice with the sunlight shining through it. At night, you won't see the colours of the glass but the filament will light up green. And the solar 'candles' give a nice cold blue glow.

The 'candles' are crooked because I don't care and also because they can removed for transportation. I'm going to a hacker camp this summer and plan to take it along and hang it between two trees on a dimly lit foot path somewhere. (Good luck finding a dimly lit spot in a hacker camp...)

Anyway, simple as can be, but I had fun. I really felt like doing some simple easy carefree low-stakes tinkering and this hit the spot. And I have a metric fuckton of the fake sea glass so it's nice to use it in some way.

Pics taken at night are here and in my comment below.

Current Mood: cheerful

momsalive1

Tassel earrings made with seed beads. There are seven strands per earring, making them heptapods like in the movie "Arrival"!
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moem

I love making things from circuit board. I love the way it looks, and as a material it's very versatile: light and strong. It can be sawed into any shape, sanded, and drilled. It is also often thrown away and so it can be easily obtained for free.

Here's a leather belt that I covered in pieces of circuit board. I used pop rivets to fasten the pieces. Of course, I had to take all the components off the board first.
After I was done I covered the leather up with tape and then spray-varnished the circuit board; it made things nice and shiny and it also prevents lead getting on your skin. Yes, sometimes there's lead in solder. Better safe than sorry.

leather belt covered with rectangles of circuit board

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I made this as a gift for a friend and after it was done, I got so jealous that I had to make a second one for myself. The newer one has sea-blue circuit board and I wear it almost every day.

Bonus cat picture! Here's the belt being modeled by one of our cats.

redsnake05

With the new influx of people, I'm hoping people might want to talk about craft things. If you've been crafty lately, or thought about it, or wanted to craft, or anything else, then please tell us here! Pictures, progress, planning and questions are all good.

3y3

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3y3 & cσммєит тσ wнicн σиє yσυ αяє υรiиg :)
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untonuggan

My friend is a Rec Therapist at a Children's Rehab Hospital in Washington, DC and is looking for child-size Picc Line Covers and brown (versus white) Medical Play Dolls. Details over at my journal if you are interested.

cross-posted to

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untonuggan

Question: I am in the midst of tricking out my walker. It has aluminum legs that are coated with some sort of paint, and also a fake leather/vinyl seat thing.

If I wanted to paint either/both of these things, what kind of paint should I use? I was thinking of puff fabric paint on the seat, but I know that can peel rather easily off of t-shirts even, so that seemed ill-advised. It is black, by the way. Black and boring.

I have already knitted removable & washable yarn bombing for some sections of the walker, but in other areas the yarn would interfere with the walker.

ETA: I should mention that I have a stash of model paints.

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My wool tapestry

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October is National Craft Making Month!

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