Postby FelineFriend » Wed Nov 26, 2014 3:12 pm
Harriet !!! An idea HIT me, this a.m., while I was telling DH about all of your pressed flowers!!!!!! Would you ever care to make beautiful place mats with your blossoms? You might be able to lay them out onto clear contact paper, unless you have another good way of doing laminating. Then, it hit me just now, how you could possibly to collage pressed flower place mats using ribbons, paper doilies, the pressed flowers, pressed ferns, etc., too! I think it would be SO BEAUTIFUL!
I am still continuing to take a "break" from crocheting.
I would love to learn how to knit, in the New Year! I have a booklet called, "I Can't Believe I'm Knitting!" and "Knitting for Dummies," too. I figured if I went to YouTube for instructions, to watch in person, how to cast on, knit, purl, etc... and how to (is it called this???) bind off, it'd be a fantastic way to learn how to knit dishcloths, scarves, and flat rectangle hats, for Christmas 2015!
Also, I want to master Tunisian crochet, so I can make panels and do cross-stitch on them. DD gave me a good book, which is very old, from Goodwill, in Seattle. There is a lovely white Tunisian paneled afghan with floral roses cross-stitched on it. Wow! Also, one of my old craft books (you can buy them used from book dealers!!!!) had a wonderful babies afghan, along the same pattern with cross-stitch or embroidery on it. It'd be such a nice keepsake for a grandchild! If I could find patterns for cars and boy "things", it'd be great, for making a solid color Tunisian afghan for my grandsons and a pink one for DGD, to embroider designs on, too! Just trying to keep my oldster brain "tweaked" with good, new stimulation!
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." ~ Arthur Ashe