Craftgrrl - Where Crafters Unite!

Sometimes it comes out looking too jumbled, sometimes its nice.

( Night Empress )

Night Empress is an 18" necklace/choker made from oxidized sterling chain, wire, and garnets. It took me an hour to attatch the tiny chain to the frame and about five hours to complete. It was fun to make. :)

( Never Ending Story )

26" long necklace made of oxidized sterling silver (I left some bright for contrast), a huge london blue topaz frosted pear with polished dots, swiss blue topaz, amethyst, freshwater pearls, onyx, labradorite, and apatite.

An embroidered belt, messenger bag shoulder straps, and a roll up screen for my patio... but what do I do with the other 57 pieces? I hate to see these thrown away, but I won't allow myself to take home more stuff if I don't have firm plans for it.
166" x 2", natural cotton color with gold stripes on one side (what look like grey stripes are lint, these are from an industrial ironer. The lint brushes off easily)

Happy Holidays :)

Here's a few of the things I'm bringing to the craft sales this weekend:

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I have a wooden stand for displaying my necklaces, it was graciously given to me by another necklace-maker, but it has her name burnt into the wood. What's the best way to cover this up? Should I try spray painting it (all I have is black) or should I hot glue some fabric to it?

Hey everyone -- I am moving to Boston (from New York) and one thing has been keeping me up at night... how will I ever familiarize myself with a whole new city's hidden crafting gems? In addition to not knowing anyone in Boston other than my boyfriend, I don't know the first thing about where to go to buy anything there.

Where do you get your stuff? I knit, hand embroider, draw and have been attempting some painting lately, and am often looking for all kinds of general materials. Lately I've been itching to carve my own stamps. Tell me where you go and where it is (a link if you can manage it), from the big chains to small indie stores.

Thank you!

I picked up an old breadbox at the Salvation Army for 3.99. It was pretty grimy and weirdly black inside, but I rubbing alcohol-ed that sucker to within an inch of its life to get it clean, and then gave it a light sanding, primed it, and gave it a good coat of spray paint.

Before: breadbo-RING!



( After: Bread-SEXY! )

So I finally got off my butt and did something productive today. I made this bubble gum machine necklace. And I'm REALLY proud of it. :)


Ain't it just sweet?

More pics under the cut
( Gum Balls )

What would you make your mother for Christmas if you had 1 yard of fabric that you picked out because it reminded you of her?

ETA: You guys have so many great ideas! Thank you!

been a while since I posted anything steampunk inspired so I thought I would post a few of my new pieces. The first four are Steampunk bugs that I made out of paperclay. On the back I added a pin back so that they can be worn on a shirt or jacket but I also left the antenna with loops at the end so that jump rings could be added to the end and they could be worn as pendants. Each one is made by pressing watch parts into the clay then latter painting them, some parts of the bugs are sealed in a glossy finish and some are in a matte finish.


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I'm knitting this shape to become a super simple dress for my baby daughter. I figure two of those rectangles (with garter stitch at the neck/arm holes) stitched together, maybe with some cross-stitching added later could be made pretty cute.

Anyway, I want to add some increases to make it wider toward the bottom to accommodate for her fluffy bum. Where should they go? I was thinking they could start at the bottom of the garter stitching for the arm holes, but should I add them in the middle? On the sides? What's going to look okay?

('m a new knitter, and have mastered knitting/purling/increasing/decreasing and know what to do to get what I want, but having only made up my own crochet patterns I'm not quite sure with knitting.)

It's almost time for ornament making!!! Here are a few I did last year


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Hi :)

I'm looking for a cute and simple apron pattern, maybe something a bit vintage. Or tutorials, I looked in the memories with no luck.
Thanks a lot!!! :)

Below the cut are four art trading cards I've created for swaps on Swap-Bot. I'm having lots of fun with it and it has really sparked my creativity in new ways!



( Art trading cards )

I have a mild obsession with Narwhals. They're the unicorns of the sea! So I made a pendant :)

NARWHAL

It's sawn out from sterling silver, using a doodle of a Narwhal that I drew.

I vote Narwhals should be the next fawns and owls.

A few more pieces I made recently.



I really like how this one came out. I think it's my favorite bowl so far.

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My dolls went through a bunch of themes and periods this time. =) I hope you'll like them.

( Nativity, Angel, Pilot, Cardinal and Maiden. )

I have been working hard on crocheting scarves this holiday. It's been a pretty easy gift to make with so many possibilities. Also I tried my hand at Soap Felting. That was interesting. I am going to try again soon when I get some better soap.

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My friend and I had turkey night last night. And it was awesome.

These are originally supposed to be made out of a piece of wood, hollowed out and carved into a figure smoking a pipe or something. Then you place incense inside and the smoke will come out of the little dude's mouth-like he's smoking. I thought the idea was adorable, but I can't do wood very well, so I decided to break out the clay and sculpt one. My dad collects Santa's, so I'm thinking he would like one for christmas...Anyway, he is in the green stage-just drying out for the kiln. My first try at a German smoker.

I LOVE Christmas/the holidays!!! I love getting to spend all that time with my family, the decorating, baking, even battling the crowds to shop and of course I love making things for people! I'vegot abotu 30 people to make/buy for and have been moving pretty slowly (I blame the vast amounts of homework...) and thus far I've only gotten the sock animals for my sister & brother in law made; a fair isle sock cat & a sock gorilla :) But I'm PLANNING to make....
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What's everyone else making for gifts this year?