Crafting for Christmas 2010, lets begin again......

liesauk

lelly?

What reason do you felt it though, I must have missed that bit earlier on?

Liesa

li'l_p

princesspoppypop wrote: »

That blog is fab... have you seen the tiny gingerbread houses... so cute!

Poppy

Yes, cute or what?

liesauk

another thing i love to do is make my own wrapping paper, I find that you can get huge rolls of brown paper quite cheaply. I have lots and lots of different stamps and I stamp them all over after measuring the size and it adds individuality to them. I also make my own paper bows. if you search paper bows there are many sites that show it, and really they are so addictive as you get going. I make mine from old magazines, I make even number of strips twist them as in the instructions and use a split pin through the middle adding them as I go until I have lots.

Liesa
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eve_1979

If anyone has British bookshop and stationery shop near them its worth popping in as they have lots of their craft bits reduced! Brought a pack of 70 embossed cards for £4.99 and a pack of valentines papers (30 i think) for £1.99. Thinking to do lots of cards for valentines day to sell!!!!

Happy Crafting everyone! x

li'l_p

lellypants wrote: »

was someone asking about felting? You can do it a few ways- you can agitate it in the washing machine (everyone has done this at some point in their lives- nice wooly jumper goes in the washer and comes out doll size) you can do it by hand by using washing up liquid and warm water and squeezing it about and then there's needle felting where you get your item and poke it over and over again with a barbed needle.
Hope I haven't bored you all to death.
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I stumbled upon a knitting pattern for a gingerbread man where you knit him up and then felt him afterwards. It's in the book Knitted Toys by Zoe Mellor here. I got my copy from the library, and the end result is so adorable! So easy to make up too. I would have made one up for Christmas but sadly I got the book a bit too near to Christmas to start anything.

li'l_p

liesauk wrote: »

lelly?

What reason do you felt it though, I must have missed that bit earlier on?

Liesa

I think it gives an overall different finish to the piece. The book states that the 'extreme temperature and soap flakes will matt the woollenfibres, shrinking them together to make a tight, soft fabric that. when dry can be cut without fraying'. It's like the gingerbread man posted above, he's got a really nice texture about him that doesn't look knitted, if you see what I mean.

liesauk

li'l_p wrote: »

I think it gives an overall different finish to the piece. The book states that the 'extreme temperature and soap flakes will matt the woollenfibres, shrinking them together to make a tight, soft fabric that. when dry can be cut without fraying'. It's like the gingerbread man posted above, he's got a really nice texture about him that doesn't look knitted, if you see what I mean.

Ahh I see, I don't knit ( I can I just don't enjoy doing it being a lefty I look and feel kackhanded) so could I use jumpers to recycle do you think?

princesspoppypop

Palema wrote: »

Here is a link to the first 2 cards that I have made here

Will try and make a few more over the next few days and post them on my blog.

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Great cards Palema!

Poppy x

loopychriss

I make all my own Christmas cards and in 2009 made all of them except 2 (93 in all). So that's my aim again for this year, although I might send a few bought ones if I haven't got time to make them all.

Made 3 tonight plus one left over, so that's 4 towards the total!

Haven't actually done any crafting towards Christmas apart from that, but have done a lot of planning and thinking and writing lists!

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princesspoppypop wrote: »

Great cards Palema!

Poppy x

Thanks Poppy,
Will keep trying to improve them as I get more experience making them.
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