crafty

The picture above is of a Christmas ornament I added to the tree yesterday. It's a penguin I made from Fimo some years ago but never got around to doing anything with. I got out my glue gun (also now unpacked, yay!) and stuck a paper clip on him...and voila, insta tree ornament!

Mary Bertke and I were recently talking in LJ about homemade Christmas ornaments, and came up with the idea for a homemade ornament exchange next year. A few months before Christmas, interested crafty-types would add their names to the list and we'd all exchange addresses; that way we'd each know how many ornaments to make, and we'd have a month or two to create and mail them. Too late for this year, sadly.

Hm...perhaps each participant could make one extra ornament, and each year's collection of ornaments could be donated to an Interfilk auction the following year. Probably OVFF, since that's the one right before Christmas. That would also give non-crafty types a chance at the whole collection.

(Update: Wow, looks like people are already willing to sign up now for next year! If you're interested, please see the comments section in my related LJ post.)

Less than a month until GAFilk! I've almost finished my contribution to the GAFilk quilt:



I ordered the materials (including the ready-made square with the music edging) from Margaret Middleton. To those interested in contributing a square for next year's quilt...it only costs $1.75 to order the quilt square kit from Margaret! See this page for details as well as photos of quilts from past years.

I originally envisioned the whole square to be embroidered but changed my mind as I was embroidering the "Dandelion Wine" text across the top; note how the text size gets smaller near the end...that's because my enthusiasm for embroidery was quickly dying with each painstaking letter and I wanted to get it over with. Even now, I'm cringing at the idea that I have to do more sewing, to fasten the squares and the batting together along the edges. At least I know I have a few weeks.

Stop laughing at me, Allison! :-D

I admit it...I SO lack the patience to be a good needlework person!

Anyway, I went out and bought some fabric markers to finish the rest. THAT part was fun, so I think I'll stick to drawing my quilt squares from now on. Might even do two next year.

Hm...looking at the square, I realize that I still need to colour in Tom's moustache and beard, but don't have a brown fabric marker. Hm, guess I'll have to improvise somehow. Dandelion Wine is the GoH at GAfilk next month.

I've started up a (very small so far) Flickr craft photos set, for those interested. The only other craft I have photos of so far is my first and only attempt at painted ceramics, a birthday gift for Jeff earlier this year:

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