The Hunger Games Craft Roundup @Craftzine.com blog – That embroidered map is pretty amazing. Not sure about the shoes though… 🙂
Category: Crafts
Craft projects of mine
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Finally nearing the end of these socks! Which is good, because I’m sick of them.
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MetaQuilter
Last year I decided to try something different so I signed up for a quilting club with some of the fine folks from MeFi. It’s called MetaQuilter, and I’m in the “adventurous” group. Each month a different member (the “designer”) sends out fabric and instructions for making blocks. The rest of us all sew the blocks and then send them back to the designer. I’ve just finished February’s blocks so I thought I’d show off what I’ve done so far:
The first four were for January. The block pattern is called Nonesuch. They were trickier than they look. One of the group members figured out a paper piecing technique that made things a lot simpler. Apparently the finished quilt is going to look something like this. So it’ll be a traditional pattern in some distinctly modern colours!
The other two blocks are called New York Beauty, and they were definitely a challenge. The pointy bits in the arcs were done with proper paper piecing, and at first it broke my brain. I watched YouTube videos; I read tutorials; and I still did everything wrong. My seam ripper definitely saw some use. But then after setting it aside for a few days – it totally clicked! I figured it out. I even made the second one a bit more complicated just for fun. Sewing the curved bits together was stressful but I didn’t do too badly. I can’t wait to see what this finished quilt looks like…
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Achievement unlocked! Paper piecing AND curved seams. I am victorious!
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These damn socks just aren’t growing. #neverending #knitting -
Plush Tobias Fünke
Plush Tobias Fünke – LOVE IT.
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“Quiltsurround” by Greely Myatt – Jenean Morrison Blog
“Quiltsurround” by Greely Myatt – Jenean Morrison Blog – Very cool art installation in Memphis involving “quilts” made out of recycled street signs.
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The TENTH Annual Web-Goddess Oscar Contest
My annual Oscar Contest is now open! If you pick the most correct answers, you’ll win the big prize: The Monkey with the Dragon Tattoo. Yes, I made Lisbeth Salander Monkey. She has piercings; she has a Macbook; she has a golf club; and she has the titular tattoo. I think this is the most work I’ve ever put into a single monkey! (She’s also the first one that’s probably Not Safe for Work, given the slogan on her T-shirt.) And remember, in the event of a tie, the person that entered earlier wins. So don’t wait too long!
Here’s Lisbeth Monkey in profile. Check out that fringe.
Front view. As you can see, she has an eyebrow piercing, a nose piercing, and a lip piercing. She’s also got black spiral earrings and a necklace chain with a razor blade on it. (Special thanks to the Snook, who crafted the razor out of plastic and spray painted it.)
She wears combat boots, of course.
She wears a hoodie over a ripped-up T-shirt. Oh look! She’s hacking on her Macbook.
I wouldn’t piss her off if I were you. Chick has a golf club and she knows how to use it.
If you pull down her T-shirt in the back, you can see her dragon tattoo. (FREEHAND, BABY!)
I told you it was Not Safe for Work.
