I’ll post pics - I should have the cutting and sanding done this coming weekend, then it’s painting/varnishing. Mine will probably be a bit more colourful than those in the linked page - probably a red stain.
When that’s finished, I plan to try this! .
Very cool. You have some really interesting arts and crafts going!
Reminds me of a story. When my father was a young teenager he worked in a factory. I’m not sure what they made, but it involved vats of blackened stuff as a by-product. One of my father’s jobs was to take ornamental brass plates and wipe this crap on them, leaving the blackened stuff in the grooves to make the plate look antiqued. He’s convinced it wasn’t the most healthful stuff to be around! :eek: He also said it was rare to see any of the guys with all their fingers.
Updates, please?
MrDibble’s chair? jackdavincie’s mask? PerditaX’s scrubs?
Other folks?
I’ve got a hankerin’ for paper mache right now, too. Do you have pictures of any of your previous work?
I don’t have anything going right now, but my friend and I are going to the paint-it-yourself ceramics shop this afternoon. I think I’m going to do some tiles. Or maybe a plate. I just thought it would be a fun outing for her birthday.
Those are beautiful! I love working with gourds. Can you find out how she did the trim at the top of the last two shots?
Well, I finished a wall hanging quilt top and now need to quilt it. But at the moment I’m working on dresses; my BIL is getting married and my (other) SIL proposed matching dresses for her daughter and my two girls. So I’m now doing a ‘prototype’ dress to work out some changes we’ve made to the pattern–for my oldest–and we’ll do the two smaller ones together. She’s pretty new to sewing.
After that I’ll quilt my wall hanging and get to work on a few half-finished quilts I’ve got hanging around.
Am also embroidering: one collar for a dress, and some redwork quilt squares (only they’re black, being Halloween-themed).
My sweater currently looks like this. I probably could finish the remaining front shoulder in a couple of evenings, but it’s too damn hot (90 degrees F and counting). It’d be a different story if the air conditioning was hooked up, but it’s not. Blah! So my sweater has been in that state for about three weeks, and it looks like it’s going to stay that way until it cools off enough for me to touch it.
I have, though, in the heat, finished a few cotton dishcloths, like so. (Pattern here.) It takes a little less than one full ball of Peaches’n’Cream to make one, so I’m saving the ends to make an entrelac washcloth or handtowel, if I have enough yarn.
Here’s a photo of a quilt top made from one of Marcia Hohn’s patterns at quilterscache.com. It’s called Prairie Flower. I had a bunch of floral scraps to use up, and it worked pretty well.
I’ve made more quilts from her patterns than any other books or magazines.
Not much to update mine.
The scarf is coming along, though I haven’t been working on it a lot. The second sock in the pair I’ve reached the heel and haven’t worked on it in a little while.
Mostly I’ve been busy and sick so I haven’t done anything. There was a lovely sale for the solstice a couple weeks back though, so I got a few lonely skeins (eg really nice stuff for dirt cheap because it was the last skein in the store, perfect for a project I’ve been eyeing) and some more sock yarn.
I like the quilt top. And the dish cloth. I’ve been meaning to make some more, but I don’t have any patterns so I just crochet them up quickly at random.
I’m putting a small bag together out of fabric with beads that I knitted (and gave up on completing an entire freaking stole, so it got bound off at kind of small, but enough for a bag.) I bought some curved bamboo handles for it.
fabric
And I’m almost done with a big pink shawl I’ve been working on:
shawl
I think it’s going to end with a ruffle.
Also, I’m working up a baby blanket with this as the central square:
square
I hope to finish the shawl soon so I can concentrate on the blanket!
I decided to go on a yarn diet. I don’t need more yarn. I bought one last batch of organic cotton to make my newly vegan husband a sweater… next project. He’s very, very slender so I will have some measuring and figuring to do to adapt a pattern to fit him.
That dragon fly dishcloth is very pretty. I love the shade of blue!
Unfortunately, I’ve been out of town on dirty weekends when I planned on working on the chair, but it has moved on a bit during the weeks. There’s just the finishing left to do. there will be pics - maybe in their own thread.
These dressers were refinished early in the spring but I never got around to starting a thread on the work so I decided to post here.
They were my wife’s when she was a child so they are about 30 years old. Not antiques by any stretch, but they are solid wood nonetheless.
I used various techniques to strip the wood and make the repairs (loose rails, drawer boxes, etc.). I chose to go with a much lighter stain for the finish and a couple coats of poly for just the top of the dressers, not the sides or drawer faces.
I’m not a woodworker by any stretch, but I like to refinish stuff when I’ve got some spare time. These were peices 5 and 6 that I’ve redone.
