Art, Craft and Needlework, March, 2013

[Nancy]

I went to Joann Fabric's today; we had fun looking for fabric I found flannel 60% off! got a remnant for a play pen size receiving blanket 50% off and dgd had to have one too I made her's crib size. We were sewing today she played with the fabric scraps and I hemmed these pieces. She likes hers so well she wanted to take it home with her I told her only if she traded me one to keep here for it!

I ran out of white thread so will have to go back for some of that.

[Ivy]

Oh, Nancy! What fun! It's amazing, sometimes, the great sales that Joann's has! It's super that dgd wanted to help, too, and it's nice granny duty things to do with her.

Has anyone ever made one of those curly-Q scarves yet? I printed a couple patterns up for 2, but have other "irons in the fire" right now, so haven't attempted one yet. I DO believe, years ago, when I crocheted some red yarn hair ponytail ties called "worms", it's along the same idea, where you just do a LOT of DC in 1 stitch, continue the chain the same and it curls on you. So it MUST be easy, like the worms were.

I read that if you're not getting a project done, if it's frustrating you, it's time to "switch tasks" and do something else for awhile, which rejuvenates your creativity and makes you happy again.

[Emptynester]

Here is the wire wrap that I did this morning. We start out with a cab, 3 pieces of wire, (twist one of them) and a wrap wire. Three or 4 hours later you are blind but you have a pretty bauble.

[blessedw2]

lovely mt!!!

[BookSaver]

Emptynester ~ Very pretty!

[Sunny]

Wow, MT, you did a good job with that!

[Harriet]

Dd14 came over to look, and is very impressed, Emptynester. She says she couldn't do nearly that well and can see why you went blind in 3 hours, lol. The one twisted wire certainly does give added interest, doesn't it? I was wondering what the tiny square beads are. You did the curlicues so perfectly!

Do you plan on taking more classes?

[Ivy]

Emptynester! That is so beautiful! Wow! You do such wonderful work! Thanks for sharing it with us!

I've been meaning and meaning to crochet myself some new facecloths, to retire the old ones into stacks underneath sinks with cleaning spray bottles, so I regularly spritz up and clean bathroom, kitchen, and utility room counters, etc...!

But I get sidetracked! Sound familiar? I must get to them, I need them, I have pretty colors, the patterns, yarn, etc... K just am not jumping in to pamper myself and be good to me! I think the time is soon-coming where I'm going to JUST DO IT!

[Harriet]

From the sublime to the ridiculous. Here are photos of 3 masks dd14 painted to-order quick-quick for the librarian/sponsor directing the students in their play project the other day. The 3 actors for whom she needed masks were a Ninja warrior, a bird (bird-man?) and some cartoonish figure - not sure. I think everyone had a lot of fun seeing how fast they could throw together a theater production that was a lot of ad-lib and improvisation. Other art students did scenery, provided props, etc. We ended up giving rides to a theater-arts student, too.

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[ellyphant]

Beautiful, MT.

Great job, Harriet's Dd, very creative!