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Craft Corner

CheerBearSenior Contributor04 Apr 2017, 11:55 am AEST

Craft Corner

A place to chat and share all things crafty!

What's your favourite craft? Is there anything you're working on at the moment? What would you like to create/work on (I have heaps of "one day" project patterns and ideas that I know I will probably never get around to, but it's nice to imagine)? I'd love to hear!

I have absolutely no artistic side to me and stick figures are the extent of my drawing ability, but I really enjoy learning and trying out new crafts. I learnt crochet during a stay in a prevention and recovery centre and it's something I pick up often when I am feeling blue, I need a distraction or I'm just a little bored. I've tried paper crafts too, although I didn't really get far with anything. Sharpies are some of my best friends and when I find my hands need to move I have a collection of smooth rocks that I draw on (different coloured circles) which often relaxes me. Sometimes I dust off the sewing machine and sew as well. I walk around spotlight for a fun outing 😉

Looking forward to hearing from you all 🙂

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 3:24 pm AEDT

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Aren't they amazing @Former-Member, I'm wondering if @CheerBear will choose those. It will be interesting to see what she says when she gets back here.

Feel welcome to share your projects here Scout, and maybe we can all motivate each other to treat ourselves to more crafty moments!

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CheerBearSenior Contributor02 Mar 2018, 3:56 pm AEDT

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You are fab @Former-Member thanks! I am so looking forward to sitting and going through your finds properly 😊 I'm after an indoor pair of snuggle socky thingamajigs I think (whatever they may be!). Will have a proper look through the links cheers!

I'm having trouble with basket girl. Have you made her before? (I'm also way too 😝 to try to work her out right now so socks/slippers it is).

Here's some tweed goodness 😍

They are seriously cool and snuggly looking @Former-Member ☺ Love the yarn too!

(Ps SunShower "Heavens to Murgatroyd" - that's a new one for me! Love it 😁)

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 4:10 pm AEDT

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Hey there @CheerBear so good to see you here.

No, sorry, i have not made basket girl, but, I have the pattern to hand if you want to ask a question some time, and maybe with an image of what the issue is, I might be able to assist, or offer a work around, or find corrections - I'll look for any corrections for you in the mean time anyway.

"Heavens to Murgatroyd" and also "Heavens to Betsy" come from the show Snagglepuss, the affectation of ending a sentence with 'even', as in "Somebody hurt! In dire pain, even!" (wikipaedia) is from the same show.

Waiting for the image to clear ....

My favourite is this pattern, are these slippers - grammar ... so much so that I may, may I say, make some for myself.

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 4:55 pm AEDT

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Yeah I think I will @Former-Member and take some shots of my brilliant (unfinished) art

BTW @CheerBear , I found this - not sure about the dimensions but it's better than nothing!

Heavens to Murgatroyd!!

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 5:08 pm AEDT

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OOh, nice tweed @CheerBear definitely boot/ slipper worthy there. Looks like wool or a wool blend too. Nice. Can't wait to see/hear what you thnk about the linky patterns and if you want me to look for more.

@Former-Member What a delightful bear, beautifully executed! Lovely colours. Do show us more when you can, if you want to, of course.

Back to relaxing to settle this stupid head pain. Can't even do my crochet 'cos the brain won't count properly and there's a pattern to keep to for this one ...sigh...

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CheerBearSenior Contributor02 Mar 2018, 5:27 pm AEDT

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Thanks for offering to help out with basket girl @Former-Member. I'll see if I can work out where I am going wrong, enough to ask your thoughts some time thanks ☺ (this is so me 😁 at having such an experienced crochet person to bounce ideas around with!)

LOVE those slippers too! They look so warm. Great spotting with the blend - it's a wool/acrylic blend. Shame you can't have wool. It's so warm and nice feeling when it's a nice blend I think. I want to make matching socks for a sibling who has been bitten by a love bug. When I spent time with them recently they were constantly cuddling under a blanket together and asking each other if they were warm enough. So I have to give them a pair of cuddle socks each (haha 😆). It's sickly (but sweet).

Sorry your head hurts 🙁 Hope it settles soon. I'm not feeling crash hot this afternoon and it's making my afternoon annoying. Early night for me I think.

Looking forward to seeing some (unfinished) art sometime if you share it @Former-Member ☺ That's a very cool looking Snagglepuss (if I Googled that correctly)!

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 5:29 pm AEDT

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@CheerBear and @Former-Member (That totally wasn't my own Snagglepuss-art, it was the result of Googlinghehe )

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CheerBearSenior Contributor02 Mar 2018, 5:33 pm AEDT

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I had a feeling that might have been a Google one when you said you weren't sure of the dimensions @Former-Member ☺

There are some incredible crochet character creations out there! Aside from a mermaid psychiatrist, I am yet to not find something someone has made when I've gone looking!

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Unknown userMember02 Mar 2018, 6:27 pm AEDT

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Gosh I'm sorry @Former-Member it didn't click until I'd left the forum that it was Snagglepuss not a bear! Too much brain pain - it'll pass. It's the fallout from yesterday's stress - takes me about 3 days to get over the pain caused by the muscle spasms of that level of anxiety, even with meds. I day down. I'm using it as an excuse to treat myself to some different treaty food within my proper limits but still stuff I don't normally have. I'm thinking about you Caramel Magnum ...

Since you've said the pattern you wanted was for snuggle boots, @CheerBear I just wanted to show you this cutest of Norwegian patterns for handholding gloves. Of course why wouldn't they have patterns for them. Love it!

Shared glove from a 'set' I guess as it's not a 'pair' technically.

and here's the set. Such cuteness.

Ummmm @CheerBear I found a real mermaiding psychologist ....

and mermaid dolls that you could call 'psychologist' ... amigurumi-mermaid-doll-patterns/

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CheerBearSenior Contributor03 Mar 2018, 8:51 am AEDT

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Hi @Former-Member all all 😊

I went through those patterns you shared yesterday SunShower - so awesome thank you! I LOVE the flip flop boots and have it bookmarked as a maybe for me one day. We came across a couple of the patterns. One of them (the yarnspirations) one I tried but got tripped up with the pattern. Love the Nana slippers with the pom pom also. I am having a giggle at going full-nana with the love birds 😆 The others are fab patterns I would like to try, but I have zero patience with lots of things right now so I found a basic tube sock style slipper boot and have added a few rounds of bpdc fpdc to the top of it to give it an elastic/ridged kind of trim, that worked up quickly. I might be able to sneak in a photo (and then take it down) when I have finished both pairs.

Those hand holding gloves are awesome! I would love to add something like that to my little gift. They can hold hands and snuggle under a blanket together with their matching slippers 😆😷 haha!

Hope that head pain has passed and your day is ok ❤

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