Creative or Crafty? Care to Share?

[shirlthegirl43]

Hi do you know how to do balaclavas cause my biker hubby has been after one for ages as he gets very cold on the bike in the winter? I can only knit scarves and squares to make into blankets!

I got this one in a newsletter the other day - any good?

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Hope the link works for people who are not members. It appears to be a failry complex pattern but is made so there there are no seams to rub when it is worn inside a bike helmet.

[shirlthegirl43]

Minskey those are beautiful!!!

[Comfreyfan]

Quite in awe of the talent on the Vine. I wish I was more creative, but I can follow a pattern. I've just finished these for DD's twins.

(Can't remember who recommended the Ravelry site - but I love it!)

[Florence Fennel]

They are so cute CF!

[ladylottie]

Well, I always say that I'm no good at crafts, but I can sew, knit, crochet, do embroidery and tapestry. Did try patchwork years ago but it was nowhere near as good as Flummery's.

I make rag rugs (am making a clippie rag cushion cover at the moment) and have just started to learn to spin, something I've always wanted to do, and I love it!

I did lots of the above when the kids were little and now I seem to have started doing them again after 20 odd years

[Two_Sheds]

I've done a couple of dresses & a skirt this week (I'm not normally this productive but a) it was half term, b) OH is away, so I've been sewing until bedtime c) I'm in a Bust Your Stash online competition. I'll be starting a top after school today.

[taff]

great tartan dress, are you sitting on an invisible stool?
Lovely quilting too, and the cakes and animals...

I taught myself to knit a few weeks ago to make my mother a pair of socks that don't squish her ankles and keep her feet warm, they were not very pretty but apparently they do the job, phew...so now I do a mean double rib stitch, but cannot get the hang of single rib for some reason...
I paint, and I'm currently painting what feels like the never ending nude.

My father got a sewing machine out of a skip for me a few years ago, it only does straight or zig-zag stitches, and not too complex for someone who has almost zero facility with stitching clothes except to mend them.

[Flummery]

I think everyone who gardens is creative and crafty! It goes with the territory.

[Nicos]

I was thinking the very same thing Flum whilst I was cleaning my teeth and looking out of the window this very morning!!!

Also- come on lads- what creations have you come up with????

I bet a few of you are a wizz with a bit of wood , paving slab or metal!

[bobleponge]

If you could see the extension to my raised bed that I made yesterday in between biblical downpours, you would understand why I have said nothing.
I admire the talent on display on this thread, but have absolutely nothing to add of my own creation.

[Florence Fennel]

What a lovely Flum you are to say such nice things.

[Paulottie]

Something in wood from the boys?...Okay then. This is a staircase I built for our new roundwood green 'n' groovy eco- village shop last Autumn. (can't claim its 100% male creativity as I work with Mrs P...but she is more the fine furniture/dovetail end of the operation)

[binley100]

That looks fantastic. Very Impressive...

[Flummery]

Something in wood from the boys?...Okay then. This is a staircase I built for our new roundwood green 'n' groovy eco- village shop last Autumn. (can't claim its 100% male creativity as I work with Mrs P...but she is more the fine furniture/dovetail end of the operation)

That's gorgeous. I love wood. My dad did too - he made the most fantastic marquetry pictures and boxes.

[Nicos]

WOW - that's fantastic!!!!

I must say- I'm still quite shocked by the quality of peeps work!!- really, really impressed folks!