How beautiful Night Star. I just love sea glass. Perhaps it's something about the way time and the bumps and bashes of it's life has made more beautiful.
nugget how lovely. My Sis is the seamstress in the family, I've never quite been able to make friends with any sewing machine I've met so far. I'm an artist of the messy sort and generally end up with whatever I happen to be working with all over.
This may be why working with cloth makes me nervous, I have a hard enough time keeping a shirt clean for five minutes.
This is a quilt top I made a few years ago. I am determined to get it on my quilting machine in the near future. It's 4th in line on my bucket list. :)
So many projects, so little time!
@ Guohau; I did it! ( But only because this pic didn't need resizing, for some reason! (rofl) )
Nice design and color!!! Maybe do just a little work on it each day. One day it will be finished and you will be so proud!
Snarky, I sold at a flea market many years ago. I also sold crafts on consignment in a wonderful little shop. I can't set up at flea markets or even do church fairs or anything because I never know how I'm going to feel from one day to the next. My meds make me so drowsy sometimes and I'm always in pain with my spinal problems. I liked selling on consignment the best, even though they can take quite a percentage of your earnings. The thing is when the shop owner wants a dozen of these and a dozen of those, you are working like crazy trying to fill orders and it becomes like a job and takes the joy out of it.
Bobbin lace and tatting? Wow, those are just about a lost art. I wish I would have had my Grandmother show me how to tat while she was still alive. Beautiful work!!!!!!! Bobbin lace looks terribly confusing! LOL I'd be all messed up! Have any pics of your work?
Can't do a little each day, Nightstar. I really, really admire hand quilting, but I'm not that dedicated to my craft. I load the quilt on a 12' table, and machine quilt it.....the system is tied up til I finish what I started. :) I have nearly 20 tops I've pieced- now to get them on the machine!
I stopped sewing and quilting for three years due to some health issues, but I'm back at it and almost frantic to get caught up!
My grand daughter is going to help me do a quilt next weekend; it's a Christmas gift for a special guy in our lives.
The quilt pictured will be for her someday; I'll use it carefully til then....so it will have to wait. :)
I bet they are all lovely. I have hand quilted pillows and coasters, but that's about it. Just small scale stuff. I have an Aunt who does machine quilting. She goes to a quilting club every week. Beautiful work. You could sell yours for a LOT of money if you ever want or need to. But heirlooms are awesome so it's good that you are keeping some for the family. :)
I'm knitting a baby afghan right now for my niece who is due in February. Earlier, I threw together a really nice Vase of silk Christmas flowers, a stick of icey looking twigs, a stick of snow covered branches, moss inside the vase, a little snowman in the center. It came out soooooo cute. It is a little pre- Christmas gift for Mom. For Christmas I'll probably give her money because she is so fussy and has everything she really wants and needs.
I bought wine glasses with a snowflake design for a dollar each! Bought a spray of white silk flowers with silver in the center (also a dollar)that I will tie around the stems with a red glittery ribbon. I'll stick a bottle of wine in between them with a red bow and jingle bells hanging from it.
Trying to get my Christmas things sorted. I shop year round and put things away for Christmas gifts. I find the most amazing bargains!
Bobbin lace and tatting? Wow, those are just about a lost art. I wish I would have had my Grandmother show me how to tat while she was still alive. Beautiful work!!!!!!! Bobbin lace looks terribly confusing! LOL I'd be all messed up! Have any pics of your work?
I got a craft book when I was 16 that had two pages describing how to do tatting, so I bought a shuttle and tried. And tried. And tried! I'd get SO frustrated that I'd throw it in a drawer and swear to never try again. But I hate to be beat! Every so many months I'd drag the book out, grab my shuttle, and try again. Six or seven years later I accidentally discovered how to snap the loop just right to form the knot correctly, and it was one of the best days ever! (rofl)
For some reason I am drawn to really tough challenges- maybe that's why they are considered 'dieing arts'. I have some pictures around here somewhere; I will see if I can't rustle them up. I give most everything away so I have a reason to start on something new, but I think I might have a doily around here.
Thanks Penny! I too love sea glass. At one time you could find decent size pieces now they are all so tiny. You can buy pieces though.
I have some glass that by best half's grandmother smoothed out in her rock tumbler, and they're beautiful. Since I'm always finding broken pieces of old glass everywhere I dig around my house, I have a small bucket full. I'm thinking about running them throw a rock polisher. I sometimes wonder if today's youth will see as much beauty in colored plastic as I do in colored glass....
Nugget, I remember trying to learn tatting through a craft book too and it drove me insane! LOL And I'm like you and determined to get it, but that tatting I didn't get. Maybe I'll try again someday.
My current avatar is a pic of a curtain section I wove for my now deceased blood Dad's Sister--my favorite aunt. It's cotton with largish threads. I think it's "Cotton Clouds" cotton with variegated flecks of colors in the threads that match the colors in the pattern section. The base color of the threads is a cream/off white. Some of the warp threads are blues and purples. The threads are maybe a little thicker than 1/16".