Blackwork: Scissor fob birds

I made this fob using a varigated brown thread.  I made the twisted cord also.  I sewed the whole thing together as a pillow with polyfil filling.
Blackwork is relatively fast for me.  Alot of bang for buck.

keep stitching
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Cross Stitch: Welcome, Willkommen

This is a cross stitch I made for my grandparents years ago.  My grandfather was from Switzerland so I put the german version of welcome on the design.  It hangs in their house through today.

Keep stitching
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Polymer Clay: orange kitty

Christi Friesen styled kitty cat.  These are faster and easier to make than the lions.
As usual with Christi's designs right on the first shot.

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Polymer Clay: Inked beads, tile hearts

These are translucent beads with two colors of adirondac inks.  They were put in the tumbler and then buffed.  I made these a year or so ago and they looked boring and I did not do anything with them.  But I Finally figured out how to tumble and buff and they look great now.

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Above are curvey beads from a mistake.  I tried making a cane that looks like glass tiles and grout.  but I made it too small and the effect did not work.  I eventually made a large cane and I used it to make hearts.

These are beads using the bad cane from the previous picture.

It just goes to show that even mistakes can be used for other stuff when working in this medium.

Here is the good cane used to make hearts.  The one on the left did not come out good but the one on the right came out good.

The one on the left had the cane put on the round ball before the heart was formed so it stretched significantly.  The one on the right had the cane slices put on the cone shape that leads to the heart shape. No stretching here.

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Polymer Clay: Mayan croc cane

This is an attempt at caning and reducing.  This is a mayan style croc inspired by some pictures I found by googling images of mayan art.  It is not perfect but I still love it and did a good job reducing.  I think I finally have the hang of caning.  I had at some point last year given up on caning images as impossible.  I managed to reduce a cane recently and I got back into it.  My mistake was that I did not stretch enough during the process.

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Polymer Clay: Book cover dragon eye

These are the front and back covers for a journal.  On the back cover is a dragon eye inspired from items I have seen on etsy.  The eye ball itself is from a cane I made.  On the front cover is my first wack at putting letters into metal, patina'ed, and polished copper.  The lettering says spell book.

The are swarovski crystals in the corners. I tried a cheapo glue on crystal but it was plastic and it melted when I tested it in the toaster oven.

The dragon scales are slices of cane.

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Beading: Apache tears

I made this necklace for my grandmother.  The stones are Apache tears. Merconite obsidian.  My grandparents picked these up years ago rock hounding and finally they made it into jewelry.  It was a pleasure and an honor to do this for her.  These were the first to get done beause she made it a point that they were special.

Keep the faith
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Polymer Clay: Buttons

I made buttons to match a piece of fabric for my friend.  I mixed all of the colors and marbled the clay.  She wanted basic round buttons.  Nothing funky.. I have seen some cool buttons at bas relief on etsy.  Oh well.  She reports that she likes them and will make an outfit with them.  Hopefully I will get a picture that I can share here.
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Polymer Clay: Savannah

The lion is Christi Friesen style.  My mom gave me some polished stones from my grandfather's collection.  (This might even be pertified wood.)  She asked me to team it up with the lions in a creation.  This is what I came up with.  I used my extruder to make the grass.  I think she is getting this for mother's day.

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Beading: Progress gray stone

This is the progress I made on the stone.  But the experiment is not working out.  It slips off.  I am going to try a wire backing to stabilize it.  I don't think row after row of beads is going to help capture the stone.  The beads against the stone are very slippery.  I picked out the beads on the internet by picture alone.  The pictures seem true color enough that I got what I wanted.  The beads look good next to the stone.

Keep trying
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Polymer Clay: Inked Translucent Pendant

This pendant is three layers of clay.  First layer is a gold and ecru striped sheet wood grain technique.  Second layer is black and third layer is ecru base with translucent alcohol inked on top.  The inked layer is thinned in the pasta machine to help thin the translucent.  There is a jump ring clayed to the back.  The inked layer is based on techniques from The Polymer Clay Art book.

Have fun

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Polymer Clay: chaos blue

I was trying to make a surface made of strips of sheets I have previously made.  It came out terrible so I scrapped it.  In the mean time I made scrap clay and I made a block and ripple cut it.  I came out with a nice blend and made the slices into pendants.  So for a complete accident this is the result. 

Make mistakes they can be cool
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Cross Stitch: Pilot in Training

I made this for myself back when I was taking flying lessons.  I logged 20 hours before I found out I could't get license because I'm bipolar and would not pass the medical exam.  You can't be on mood altering drugs.
I cobbled this design together with different lettering and a picture of a toy plane from a Christmas cross stitch book.

Keep trying new things
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Polymer Clay: Flintstones

I got the idea for these "stones" from my step mother who found some colored stone beads in various shapes and I wanted them but she bought them all.  I got the granite polymer clay by sculpey and made these beads.  You must be careful when mixing the clay that you don't handle it too much or the flecks disappear. As you an see in the green one on the right bottom corner.

Play with clay
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Polymer Clay: Slates

When I wear this necklace many people think it is made out of metal.  But this is painted black polymer clay.  I got the images from etsy off of other people's designs.  I made a carving in a piece of scrap to use as a stamp.  I painted them with acrylics.  The bunny and the fish are painted with white and then blue.  Then I got very rough sand paper and sanded the dried paint off to give it a used look.  They were easy to make and I get loads of compliments for this necklace.

Play with clay
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Blackwork: Snowflakes

This design was made with the help of Beginner's Guide to Blackwork by Lesley Wilkins.  The snow is falling on the birds and on the flowers.  I received the fabric from Nordic Needle in one of their grab bags.  I also received the bell pull from them.  Blackwork works up rather quickly and is a constant puzzle solving mission to choose the best path for a return path.  One trick I picked up from a web site somewhere is to choose a main path and do side trips as you come to them then get back on the main path.

stay on the path

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Beading: Bead storage

Project Tray

Boxes in boxes

Tool sleeve

So this is how I store my beads.  I made the tool sleeve out of a canvas and sewed sections into it to seperate the tools.  I used to keep the tools in a freezer bag so this is a great improvement. 

I bought the other containers from Michael's.  The project tray is from the dump, it is some sort of medical equipment.  It fits the rectangular beading mat.  There is a Klutz Bead loom book in there right now as I am playing around with the bead loom, I started a bracelet which is lying along the left hand side.

Go beading

patty

Polymer Clay: See a Scene

See a scene in a sheet of mixed colors.
Chipmunk, dolphin, spaceship.
Use texturing to pop the image and scratching to make outlines or details.

I saw this method somewhere on the internet or maybe a book.  It is rather interesting what you can get out of scrap clay.  And I am no artist.  I let the clay make the picture for me.

I may give these away mounted on cards or as ornaments or keep them, they are too cool.

play with clay
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Polymer Clay: Butterfly beads

The butterfly beads designed by desiree are fun to make.  Mine came out quite large.  I made one into a necklace of three strands to make it weightier.  I made a silver spiral head pin.  I found matching string and seed beads for the other beads but have not finished another project.  These beads were hand sanded with four grits and hand denim buffed.

Play with lay
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Beading: scissor holder

This scissor holder from DMC screamed for a beading.
This was one of the first projects I made.   These are glass beads and seed beads.
This was made with beading wire for strength.

Keep beading
patty