I am going to have a try at making furry monster dice bags. Gary wants one and if I make a couple one can be donated to the raffle at Contraption to help the lovely Chris buy Raspberry Pis for the school that Jack goes to.
I don’t have a pattern so will be making it up as I go along. It should be easy enough though, just a simple drawstring bag, fur on the outside, red on the inside, teeth around the edge. Maybe with a tongue to loll around inside.
How hard can it be?
I’ve been doing a bit of knitting.
They’re based on the Rufus the Leprechaun pattern which I found online. I changed the colours, lost the beard and added a skirt, wings and hair for the fairy and big ears and a pointy hat for the elf.
I had a terrible time with the scalloped edging to the fairy skirt, but I got there in the end by mingling together various different patterns I’d seen online. It sort of works if you don’t look too closely.
Anyway, they are off to their new owners tonight (a young brother and sister I know through my part time job) so hopefully they will get lots of loving and no picking over the details.
Well that was a long morning. We spent absolutely ages doing paperwork, all of it dull to the extreme. Pages and pages of it.
Eventually though we got to do something a bit more fun. We were all given journals and loads of different scrapbooking materials which we had free reign to use to decorate said journal.
I would post a picture but I went a bit crazy with the glitter glue so mine is still drying and I won’t bring it home until next week.
It was an interesting bunch of people. I don’t think any of them are really that interested in making stuff to sell. Most seemed to just be looking for a social morning. It was all female, mostly over 50 and I think most of the others already know each other from the WI and suchlike. Still, the course sounds like it will cover all the stuff I need to learn so it’s worth going.
I like making things. I’m lucky enough that I can usually manage to make whatever I set my mind to reasonably adequately. I can visualise things in 3d which helps and am reasonably good about attention to detail. I used to be better, but I have a dodgy right hand these days so my fine motor control isn’t what it used to be and I can’t keep working for hours on end. I get by though.
I knit, usually chainmail but with wool too on occasion. I made my hubby a Dr Who scarf which he is very proud of. That was my biggest project so far, it took an absolute age to make but mostly because I left it for weeks and weeks between doing any. I mostly make chainmail jewelry rather than armour for reasons of hand. I make normal beady type jewelry too, that’s quick and easy so great for when the pain levels are high but the itch to make something won’t go away.
I sometimes make costumes and props for games and random ‘stuff and things’ for friends or particular occasions. The last thing I made was a cross stitch sampler for a friends wedding, current project is a pair of knitted dolls for another friend.
I have an etsy shop and a folksy shop but haven’t yet gotten around to populating them. To be honest I am absolutely dreadful at selling stuff. Giving it away is much easier and I like seeing people wearing things I have made. I wish I was better at the selling bit, I think the stuff I make is good enough to sell I just don’t have those skills.
I’ve just signed up for a crafts course that is supposed to include advice on how to make and sell so here’s hoping it makes a difference.
My to do list craftwise is currently dominated by ‘learn to crochet’ it looks a lot more portable than knitting and seems to be faster which can only be a good thing.
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