Published April 17, 2010 by

Scarf

Something quick to actually get things happening. Made this scarf. It worked fairly well – I’ve never ‘felted’ before. I.e. buy old woolen jumpers from the op-shop and then wash them in a hot cycle to shrink them… not sure if they shrunk quite as much as they should have but I don’t have a dryer to get them that extra step. Cut circles (or whatever) and sew them zig-zag all the way down. Next time I think I’ll make the scarf a tad longer, this used 30 circular pieces in total. 10 of each colour. I also have navy blue waiting to be used and there is STACKS of leftover material. I could also possibly be a tad neater on my circle cutting but no harm in smoothing things out a bit later. I just wanted to make something. And I have. Pretty happy with the effort.

*Next time triangles???

(Definitely assisted by my bargain jacket purchase… sadly not so eco friendly. But do love 50% off. One day I’ll work out how to sew jackets. Slowly, slowly)

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Published September 10, 2008 by

Lightbox

After I get my Nikon D90 D80, I am going to build myself a lightbox. Handy thing to have and I definitely could use one.

This is a reasonable looking ‘DIY’ version.

If you know of any better diy versions or suggestions of types of light globes to use (because I don’t have excess income to get such luxuries as a proper flash) please leave me a comment.

Note now that I have done minimal research thus far. I will share any finds.

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Published April 29, 2008 by

Chair lust and the DIY

I was so close the other week to buying an old op-shop chair and doing something with it.

I confess when I was younger and maybe even now, I had a small fascination with things being re-done or made-over. Tonight I found this chair that has been made over. I am a) jealous b) inspired. I shall have to go find myself a chair and I’ll also have to see if I can squeeze some kind of half nice material out of Spotlight (craft-store) – the last time I looked, all they had was boring as cack.

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