I know it’s a little bit uncommon to post the next list of projects before last month’s result, but I really need better photos with the latter, and I don’t have those yet.
As you can see I really decided to limit my monthly projects down to five per month. For obvious reasons if you take the last two months into account… But I’m really looking forward to the June Projects!
I love how the colours of these fabrics work together ♥
I’ve dragged a lot of the April Projects on to May. As mentioned before, the cosplay was about five projects alone. So I just copied the list, took one down and added four new projects at the end:
I already think that I’ll drag the ren fair outfit on again, but I’ll at least certainly try!
I’ve got this idea from Selene. To cope with my problem of starting and not finishing projects I’ll make a list of 10 projects for every month and try to get on with them. Others are allowed, too, of course, but these 10 are of priority. Most of them are ones I’ve got the materials for, and I decided not to limit them to sewing but also get some fine art and other crafts projects done. I’ll draw a resumé at the end of April, and then we’ll see if it got me somewhere or is just another list to gather virtual dust on my blog.
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I built a pin board. The frame is over 150 years old and used to be a part of the old stable-turned-bike-shed that leaned onto our little white house and vanished to be replaced with the end of the world.
Corner detail:
I love the old window knob where I can hang some of my necklaces.
Plus factors for this project:
+ it’s useful
+ it’s recycled
+ it’s multi-purpose as I can use the knob for some of my necklaces and the border decoration for storing earrings
A week ago was my mothers birthday and I gave her something I had started as a project a year ago.
Fairy lights made from egg cardboard! I painted the “flowers” with my pigment aquarelles after I pretty much drowned them, as the water allows the colours to flow down the structure of the paper like little veins.
My mother loved her gift! I had already feared it was too useless for her, but it was just right.
The flowers look a little bit like nasturtium or field bindweed blossoms, both flowers that I really like.
It’s a little bit like I’m brightening up her rainy, dark autumn evenings even though I’m not there myself.
As you may have noticed I’m not going to rush through the drawing challenge in 30 continuous days.
Instead of drawings of my favourite place and favourite food (I haven’t even decided yet!) I’ll present you some of my other projects today.
A coaster for my teapots. I use a teapot warmer most of the time, but I thought a coaster would be nice, too. No more tea stains on my tables! (Don’t get me wrong, tea stains can be charming, but not on my drawing table that I’ve got to keep as clean as possible for the paper, and on my other tables they just look messy.)
The fabric was a leftover from another never-finished project. I guess even I am influenced by the Alice Disney movie (the cartoon one, not that Burton thing) though I never watched it and so I came up with a Cheshire Cat-like creature for the stitching.
The back is made of black linen – sorry for the bad picture quality, it’s actually pitch black – and completely quilted, the inner layer being a piece of felt I had left. I did most of this coaster during my vacation in August.
No machines were hurt or used in the progress. ^^
The other thing I made for my tea board lately is a treats holder for loose tea bags. I’ve got plenty of them, from previous tea advent calendars, advertisements or packs with uneven numbers.
It’s the same linen as I used for the coaster, paired with an old cotton with an asian-looking print. I guess it’s some kind of costume material that my Grandmother bought some decades ago, and it used to be yellow, but I dyed it green for this part of the holder.
I used the original colour for the mostly unseen part and let the seams stay visible this time. This adds some stability and I thought it looked quite well with the chosen materials, too.
Look, the poll helped, this blog gets more arts & crafts! :)
I finished the second holidays project! Using this tutorial I made treats holders for the stuff I need to find when I’m working at the computer – external hard drive, webcam, several chords… and another one for my really impressive collection of ten DVDs.
Aaaand…
…meet my new terminal!
I finally got me a scanner of my own, no more annoyed Bambi when I try to get something scanned. Lovely.
As for the treats holders, those are definitely not the last I’ve sewn. I love the design, and don’t only think about making some for my closet to organise it, but also about a handbag or something like that.
They are the first finished project of my holidays, and I call them my saltwater wristcuffs.
I guess they couldn’t decide if they wanted to be Lolita or Mori, so they went and became both. The fabric is from an old flannel shirt of mine – the cuffs, simply,- and the lace is made of linen. Flax. Greenlesk. What a wonderful word!
I’d really love to be by the sea right now.
Finally something crafted again! Small, though, but no less.
1. From Hedgefairy with Love. Well, I had these pretty stickers lying around, and my huge problem with stickers is that if I put them somewhere, they’re gone! So, I made brooches out of them, and those that were too small for the needles got envelopes to stick on. I also planned to put a drop of sealing wax on one of the envelopes, but didn’t make it there in the end.
2. Roses and a Bike Button. The badge is another sticker, and the roses are the same that I used for decorating my hat for the visit at Lilibeth’s (I still don’t have the pictures, sadly, but there is a certain chance I’m going to get some of them at the weekend!).
3. Pretty Papers. My favourites, actually. I often buy scrapbooking paper for no special use, as bookbinding stock for example, but these two motifs were too beautiful to let them rest in one piece among the other papers.
