Art, Craft and Makes 2018 & 2019

[Small pumpkin]

It’s that time of year again. The weather is horrible and playing in the garden is loosing its appeal.
So the craft stuff starts.
My first attempt at cross stitch



Yesterday I picked up a crochet needle for the first time in over 30 years. Made a little basket.

[mothhawk]

Making my first teddy, and also watching the repair shop on TV inspired me to have a go at repairing and restoring my own panda teddy which I've had for as long as I can remember.

He's had many repairs as his seams parted or wore through, done in my childish hand, and in my teenage years, very crudely, as I was never much of a seamstress. For a considerable number of years he has lain in a drawer, mostly ignored (but still loved), so I got him out and had a go.

The cotton plush fabric seams had so many repairs I decided to completely undo them and machine stitch him back together. So - out with his stuffing. To my astonishment he was stuffed with plush fabric remnants and clippings and bits of mohair fabric in many colours, plus a bit of wood wool and odd tufts of kapok.

He must be an austerity teddy, made when materials were still very scarce in the years after the war. I think he was made in the early fifties. As I looked more carefully I realised his front fur runs top to bottom, but his back fur runs across from side to side. His front is white plush and his back is black plush. His arms are very short and he is not jointed.

Here he is before...



and after, washed, re-sown and restuffed

[bramble]

Great job Mothhawk, your teddy had been given a whole new lease of life.

[Ms-T]

He looks like new.

[Guest]

Happy Halloween

[veggiechicken]

[mothhawk]

Panda has always worn hand knitted clothes, from the blue trousers knitted for him by my grandmother when I was a child, to the patterned jumper and trousers he was still wearing when I decided to give him his makeover.

These garments no longer fit as he now has quite a six pack chest and a tubby bottom, and as he looked rather naked without clothing, I've knitted him some new togs.

[Bluenowhere]

I’m more excited than I should be by a craft thread on a gardening forum.

[Small pumpkin]

Christmas snowflakes for the tree.

Crochet then dipped in a PVA & water mix to stiffen

[mothhawk]

Those snowflakes are lovely, SP. Did you have a pattern, or just make them up as you went along?

[Small pumpkin]

Those snowflakes are lovely, SP. Did you have a pattern, or just make them up as you went along?

I followed the tutorials on YouTube


I’ve very nearly finished a virus shawl from watching YouTube as well. I’m spending a lot of time on there at the moment.

[Small pumpkin]

The shawl I mentioned yesterday. It’s now finished. Bob made the shawl pin from highland cow horn.

[Ms-T]

Wow that is lovely . love that the shawl pin from highland cow horn.

[Snadger]

My humble offering to this thread.



This is a Gothic inspired four tier wrought iron log store I made to save having to go outdoors for wood more than once per day.

[Small pumpkin]

That’s beautiful Snadger.