Crafting Creations

Since a young age I have dipped in and out of wanting to learn new skills especially in the

art of craft, I never received my knitting brownie badge, started projects that were never completed (apart from a home sweet home cross stitch I made for my Mum one Christmas). Choose food technology instead of textiles at school and showed a materialistic view of ‘why make my own clothes when I can buy them’ never fully realising the technique and creative need of learning such specialised crafts. The saddest part is I never realised how fun it can be and the sense of admiration when a project is completed, it’s been such a great year of learning my own inner skills and sharing skills with friends at the monthly craft night I put on. 

Sam bought me a sewing machine for Christmas and i attended a cushion making course with the lovely sewoverit  http://sewoverit.co.uk/ as blogged about before the course was amazing at giving me the confidence I needed to take my machine out and not feel it was a scary monster, since then I have made an additional two cushions and was rather proud of my skills. 

I decided a few months back I wanted a bag for my polaroid camera Sam bought me, whilst I was browsing through the internet I came across this super cute blog where this girl had an adorable fabric bag, with this and my new sewing machine in my mind I decided to challenge myself to make a drawstring bag, i found this blog http://thecreativeplace.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/tuesday-tutorial-drawstring-bag.html?m=1 with instructions and with a little change to the measurements and a trip to my local fabric shop I managed to stitch up a super cute bag. I was really pleased with my efforts and since then have made a number of bags for my different odd shape camera’s and as gifts for friends (with odd shape camera’s too). 

Polaroid Joy

 

Fleck's Diana

Katy's Mini Diana

Craft night has also been going well, we decided instead of just having an open craft night we would focus on different projects, we decided on pinhole camera’s for this month. The camera ended up not being as difficult as I first thought and we all managed to make a camera, smiling proudly at the end. I hope to use the camera over Summer and get some delightful sunshine shots.

Pinhole Camera

Knitted blanket.

My knitting has been coming on leaps and bounds and my blanket is finished also and is ready for the festival season. With that done I had some amazing point 9 super chunky yarn I really wanted to knit up and found a perfect bobble hat pattern, my first go at a pattern and it went really well, the hat knitted up perfectly and will be added to the festival bag to keep my head snug when adventuring at night.  With my hat knitted and proudly showing off about it I landed myself with another two hats to knit for two good friends, with all our Glastonbury hats complete were ready for the fun to begin. 

 Blanket being tried and tested.

Nicholson hat

 Such amazing yarn - colinette point9