My mother has unwillingly had to let go of her lifelong passion for needlework. Because of health challenges, she is not able to handle independent living anymore. Reluctantly, she has moved out of her condo and into a different living situation where she gets the support and assistance that she now needs. Most of her [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘gifts & easy to make gifts & presents’
April 1, 2010
April 1 is International Tatting Day- No Fooling!
Ah, April Fool’s Day…. time for a little frivolity, right? Actually, YES! ‘Frivolité’ is what tatting is called in France. So, I am wondering if this is the reason why April 1 was chosen to be International Tatting Day. Makes sense to me! Will I tat in public? You bet. What will I tat? Well…. [...]
March 22, 2010
Celebrate Springtime with adorable doodled paper eggs
I love making little presents that I can just pop in an envelope and mail to family and friends. Yesterday, I had a flash of inspiration…. well, really it was several flashes of inspiration that came together ever so nicely! Lately, I have been blogging about doodling, Link and Link , so that’s kind of [...]
February 12, 2009
Tiny Spool Knitted Angel
When I am feeling sad and upset, I find it really helps if I make some Angel dolls. This week has been a corker, with the death of our beloved old horse, among other challenges. We have done a whole lot of soul searching, and have decided that we just can’t handle having horses anymore. [...]
December 31, 2008
Lovely Christmas presents
For Christmas, my daughter, Chloe, and I collaborated on making a pair of hand woven suspenders for my son-in-law. She has posted pics of them to her blog: http://www.tangledthread.com/want-to-see-what-ive-been-working-on/ When you’re there, you’ll see three gorgeous bags that she made. Mine’s the luscious rosie one in the middle……
December 16, 2008
What’s on your loom for Christmas?
It wouldn’t be a proper Christmas without at least a little weaving! My daughter and I are co-creating a present for her husband. I warped up my Cricket (love that loom!) and am weaving up the bands that she is going to use to make him a pair of suspenders. I wove about 20 feet [...]
December 11, 2008
Christmas ornament
One of our favorite holiday traditions is to make a Christmas ornament for our friends and family. For this year’s ornament, I decided that I would make an Angel of Gratitude… so I drew and colored her, and then scanned and printed a flutter of angels. I glued them to wood,varnished them and then cut [...]
November 14, 2008
Green crafts- hand made book with spool knitted binding cords
Oh my. This week….. winter arrived….. So, it’s time to get to work on Christmas presents. I love green and eco crafts - recycling and re-using things to up-cycle new treasures… I am making my sister-in-law a hand made book with wooden covers. The wood has been hanging around our barn for more than 20 [...]
