It's been ages...

I know it has been ages since I last posted, but during these past few weeks I have been making a couple of things that I will present in a recap post soon. I just have to finish my recent project which is an kashmir hat for my boyfriend.

I'll see you soon, I promise!

Spontanious creation

I've finally created something again. This time it was a bit on the spot, 'cause as I was in the process of turning my old, crappy jeans into a comfortable pair of shorts the idea came to me; I need a pin cushion!

So, after finishing the pair of shorts, I took the pant legs that I just cut off (Yes, another pair of pants have been recycled.), a piece of old rubber foam I had in the closet, needle and thread and I was ready to go.
I really decided on the shape of a crescent moon, but it ended up looking like a kitchen chair cushion. Still love the shape though. Then I cut out the bits for it from the old abandoned pant leg, pinned it all together and sewed to my heart's content. I really think I'm starting to develop a liking for sewing by hand. I did it with the strap on the bag I sent off to Croatia and now this thing and I like having to really spend my time with the sewing and also having to be that thorough to make the seam neat and tidy.

After I finished the cushion itself I took out my bag of ancient embroidery thread, picked out a neat red colour and my flashy gold thread and got to work. My gran taught me how to do tiny knots a while back and I use that technique whenever I can because it looks fancy and it's fun to do. In this case I got little red knots, decorative in its own way, but also enabled me to give the cushion a little bit of structure change on one side by doing the knots tightly and pushing the cushion together a bit where I put the knots. And since I am Little Miss Obvious I embroidered "NEEDLES" in shiny gold letters as well.


Here you can see both the knotwork and my fabulous embroidery:


Here you can see its actual size (if you're able to compare it to the gold thread next to it) :


As I told my boyfriend earlier tonight when he was complaining about being bored; If you don't have anything to do, you got to make something up.

Have fun and stay creative!

A new apology and a finished project

So.. First of all I want to say that I'm sorry about being so incredibly slow on this post, but I haven't been very productive and also I haven't been able to get pictures from my camera and onto my computer for quite a while so the blogging haven't exactly been easy. Plus I've been very very lazy since before Christmas. But anyway..In the end of November I got an order. My very first international order. It came from a girl in Croatia, with whom I used to play World of Warcraft (yes, I am -that- pathetic). She wanted a bag and so I started making a bag after her descriptions. On March the second it was finished. I know it was slow work but alot was going on, like Christmas and a couple of injuries (there will be a picture of one of them further down the post) and such, but my "customer" was okay with it.
The bag is 30cm (about 12") wide, about 45cm (17,7") long and the strap is 120cm (47,2") long. The bag itself is made from wool and as you can probably see by now the technique is needlebinding. The buttons are regular hard plastic and the red heart is felt. The lining of the bag (which you cannot see in the pictures) is a cotton/elastan mix. And for those of you that actually recognise that sort of fabric, yes I have recycled an old pair of pants from technically being trash to being a usefull part of my crafts. Not the first time I've done something like that either. I just might do a post on that at a later time. But back to the original bag. The only thing I should have done differently was that I miscalculated the length of the strap so it's a bit short for the girl that ordered it, but she managed to find a way to use it anyway so everyone's happy.
Here are the pictures of the finished product.

The bag from the front:

The bag's lid and buttons up close, unfortunatly the flash stole a lot of colour from it:


The bag's behind:

The felt heart and the stitching up close:

Ester with the bag in various ways and poses:




And here we have what sometimes happen when you work on your own and don't know the difference between finger and fabric when you're using the sewing machine:


Thanks for having a peek!

Stay creative!