It is the Queen's Birthday holiday and that means I have been able to get a bit done this weekend. Hooray!
I've lots of projects in progress at the moment but I've finished a few things recently. My first is a mohair knitted scarf. It was made using a fine 2ply-ish wool, knit double with two different colours, one cream, one a more brown colour. Looks lovely after blocking and you can hardly tell where I had to go and fix where a thread was accidentally cut (argh!).
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| The scarf- pay no attention to the pile of marking on the table... |
Here is my first attempt, using an old shadow embroidery piece that I made years ago.
The only down side is that I was a bit of an idiot and tried cutting some of the circles out AFTER mounting the embroidery. It wouldn't have mattered except the whole pesky fact I had some glass beads on the piece. Had being the operative word for several.
After this card I was on a roll. I went to go on and play with some of the embossing folders and dies that I had acquired. Then there was a little problem. The die cutting machine that I had (a hand me down from my very much card-making mother) decided that it was done in a rather rash way- the gears inside shattered (plastic gears it turned out) and was so locked up that it took the embossing folder I had tried to run through it at the same time. Sigh.
Since I had already now purchased many dies and embossing folders it has meant that I bought a new toy- a new die cut machine- to replace it. The upshot is, expect to see some more cards in the future. Well unless they are intended for my Mum who reads this blog, anyway!
Just proving your Mum does indeed read your blog. :-)
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