A Box of Ties

Finished a commission tonight.

This is the hair clip part of it, there’s also a pair of earrings using the dark brown flowers.

Not been actively around online much recently since I managed to fall into something of a depressive funk. I hate it when that happens.

But I’m slowly clawing my way back to reality and have a few things to share.

I keep making Trees of Life while binge watching Money for Nothing. I love watching how they grow, so to speak, no two are ever the same.

I love this so much.

It’s so simple, but effective.

I made a rose from wire and nail varnish.

I made a music note pendant from wire and nail varnish.

Had some beads turn up in the post yesterday, so of course I decided to make a tree of life with them.

The sun actually came out yesterday, so I took a few pictures of my Trees of Life outside.

Apparently I have an instagram now.

Do I know how to use it?

Not really.

Is that going to stop me?

Needs a bit of tidying up, nothing a smidge of nail varnish remover on a cottonbud won’t cure, and a couple coats of clear varnish to strengthen it but I rather like it. Simple, yet unusual.

Been meaning to try this for a while.

An adjustable ring base, bit of hot glue, and a button.

I can’t quite tell if it’s my natural clumsiness or if crafting really does cause so many accidents, but in the course of about three hours I managed to stab myself hard enough to make me bleed, twice.

And I wasn’t even working with wire this time!

At least I didn’t catch myself on the iron again...

Far too dark.

Remember the rose I did a couple of weeks ago?

Well since then I’ve been trying to figure out how to draft paper piece patterns that I can use and maybe sell one day (I gotta pay for these damn hobbies somehow). After some googling I found this delightful little programme called Quilt Assistant (best part about it is it’s free!)

It took me a few tries to figure the basics of it, but once I did I loaded up a picture and away I went. (the image is mine, she’s one of my babies and she’s called The Wriggler)

So, anyway, now I’ve got my QA plan, and my traced pattern, all I need to do is copy it onto some iron on interfacing and pick the ties I want. Whether or not this’ll work is a whole other story.

Attempted a wire tree on a rock...well, a stone.