Folksy Friday

Never done one of these before but had to start to enter Sam's excellent giveaway!! It may become a regular feature.

Ladybird, flower and dragonfly themed selection :o)

Ladybird fabric buttons by Incy Wincy Stitches; Ladybug, ladybug onsie by My Pipsqueak;

Huge resin rose ring by Pennydog; Turquoise clutch by Hooked Yarn;

Sugilite dragonfly necklace by The Whimsical Wren; Dragonfly purse by Sabine Cornic

Craft Neutral begins here.... and playing with wire

Right then. I've been to all the fairs I wanted to go to before starting the craft neutral thingy. I am now NOT GOING TO SPEND ANY MORE MONEY ON CRAFTY THINGS unless I've sold something. (This was a challenge Vonnie set for herself  (here) for the year but I wasn't ready to start in Jan.)

Ok. So I need to start making to sell. I have an empty folksy shop waiting and my brother-in-law has said I can put stuff in his bookshop- I really must ask him for a bit more info on that.... Then my thoughts took me to displaying my creations. I decided to make an earring hanger out of random wire I have lying around and a polymer clay base. Whilst I was playing with wire I also made a couple of flowers but I have no idea what I'm going to do with them!

Here they are. Please ignore the burn in the table. It turns out that when you heat silver with a blowtorch and it decides to leap off your fire brick its pretty hot ;o)

2 more crocheted brooches

The rose one is made from this free pattern from Lion brand yarn. Its very quick and easy to make. I made the medium size with a 4mm hool and cheap dk acrylic yarn. The one with the button was made using similar techniques.

I don't really wear brooches but am having fun making them. They're easy and quick. Its great to finish a project in a couple of hours. In fact- can you call it a project if its done so quickly?

Crocheted flower brooch

Well here's the result of yesterdays snow day.....

A crocheted flower brooch that I made up as I went along. Its only made using chains, slip stitches, doubles and trebles 'cos thats all I know how to do at the moment. Found a nice button in my depressingly small button stash. Also- my first make of 2010- yay!

As an aside ponder... a couple of months ago I had decided that I was going to concentrate on silver smithing as my craft of choice. I have been enjoying learning this craft but the prob is it takes up lots of space. Its too much effort to get it all out only to have to tidy it up if either of us need to use the dining table. Maybe I should give some serious thought to converting the garage.

But crocheting can be done in the warm and doesn't need as many tools. It doesn't take over the dining table either. It can be done on the couch whilst watching tv and you can do it at any hour without having to worry that your hammering is disturbing the neighbours. Oh, and wool is cheaper than silver!!

Ponder, ponder, ponder......