Yarn bombing butterflies

Hello, so around 3 weeks ago I did my first ever yarn bomb! Yay, the original plan was to do it in a wood somewhere but I left these little butterflies behind, so the opportunity arose where I could do it with not to many people around and these are the end results!  

Really enjoyed doing this, but I wonder whether they are still there or if they have even been spotted and enjoyed by anyone!  Hopefully get some more done when I’m a bit ore out and about

Have you ever spotted any yarn bombing in you local area? What would you like to see bombed?

why dont you let me know over on my facebook page? and maybe even like it while your there!

Helen

bouquets.

so when i see home made things i sometimes think anything you can do.. i can do. so i saw these button bouquets and i just had to make one, and i mean i had too...

so heres an professional one...

and then below is my one....

ok there's is better, i couldn't find the right craft wire to connect the buttons but the use of diamond pins look lovely! would happily use my version at a wedding, and costs about a 10th to make compared t buying! 

so going on from that currently making a crochet bouquet. will post updates as i get further with them, bur again its another i can do that moment of madness! 

amigurumi Animals

Hello everyone well Christmas is well and truly over and I apologies for not update this blog sooner but I’ve had  loads of stuff on work wise.  Hopefully when the course is over in may my spare time will be my own again!  

So before Christmas I promised that I would post the amigurumi brooches I made for a mate in work and here they are, two guinea-pigs and a rabbit and an Alsatian dog.  

Hopefully the people they were given to as Christmas present liked them [made for someone else who passed them on] them to other people in work as I haven’t had feed back from them,  however as I gave these out in the staff room I was asked what else I could do and answered any thing so I made various items on the run to Christmas which will be in the next blog post. 

Pony beads.

Christmas is coming and by now everybody has got there trees up so its time to think about tree decorations.  

this year i was attempting to have a completely home made tree so began to make a variety of tree decorations, below is the process made to make pony bead melts. 

 so i forgot to take a pic before they made it into my oven, but basically  you need a single layer of pony beads in your choice of color in pre oiled metal cookie cutters.  as i was making tree dec's i chose Christmas ones  [bought in america so i really planned it out. ]

also make sure you place backing paper under neath them to ensure they are easily removed off the tray. 

these are about 10 mins in the oven, i had it set on 200 c and kept a very close eye on them with extractor fan on and all windows open!

and this is them fully melted, sorry for the blurred picture.  

at this point the desicion is to leave it a bit longer and melt them more of take them out... i took them out.

and above it what it looks like once pooped out of the cookie cutters, you can leave them in as well and secure with a bit of glue [or dont oil them] for a slightly different effect. as you can see from the Bell decoration i had a hard time getting them out and ended up breaking a few of them so will have to glue some of the bits back on! but otherwise quite impressed with them. 

recommended for anyone as a quick and easy craft idea!

Crochet hearts

So a friend of mine asked if I could make crochet hearts as center pieces for a wedding and thought I would make a few up to test out the patterns, these were my first ever 3d crochet projects which explains why they are a little bit rough but I would say with more practice I would have got there!  They decided against it in the end so I won’t be getting that much needed practice. 

as you can proberly tell i think i confused crochet stitches half way though these projects. 

and i do admit myself that the professional ones look a lot better, but practice makes perfect as they say. 

1st attempt

Crochet,

I’m a bit of a begininger at crochet but thought I would begin to give it a go as  knitting was hurting my hands [having watched you tubes videos I was taught how to knit funny and this is properly why] anyway I began to google what I could make with the wool I had ling around the house and came across granny squares.  So first things first, I made a very small baby blanket.. however it has now been turned into a dolls blanket!  Nine squares sewn together with blanket stitch in bright colors. 

still wondering what to so with this one, possibly change it into a cushion cover or maybe do some more around the edge to make it a better size for a baby blanket.. would only cover a new born baby atm. 

any tips on sewing the squares together would be welcome, not sure i like the results of the mattress stitch method! 

happy crafting!