My Creative Space

The space is currently being occupied by another bookbinding project. Since my first handbound leather journal went so well, I decided to work on another. It's going to be the same size as the first journal I made a couple of weeks ago. This one is for a dear friend of mine who loves to travel. I found a world map poster and a vintage airmail stamps type of poster and cut pieces out to add to the cartridge paper signatures.



I bought myself a better awl for poking holes to guide my stitching. My old awl didn't have a nice bulbous handle like this little guy. It makes such a big difference having a decent handle on your awl. I thought I'd try to make a little pattern with the stitching on the spine. So I made these stitching card templates and marked out two different width stitching holes. I used these to make the holes in my paper signatures.



Then I used the templates to mark out where I wanted the stitching holes to go on the cover. I think this is going to be a rather pretty journal. The cover is a sueded leather in a deep magenta colour.



Once I get these holes poked out with my awl, I'm ready to start stitching the paper signatures into the spine.

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Last of the tee to tank refashions

One of the first projects I did off my ‘Things to make’ board on Pinterest was the tank to tee refashion following the tutorial over at Crafterhours.

I made two - this one here and the second one here. Both were refashioned from old tshirts the husband had put out onto the goodwill pile.

Here is the third also made from a discarded old tshirt from Mr CraftyAdy's pile of unwanted tshirts.



When I took the goodwill pile to our local charity / goodwill shop, they had some very large and very new-looking mens tshirts on the racks and two in camo-print caught my eye. I bought them and here's the one all finished in grey and black ...



And here is the other in blue and black.



As the original tshirts were so big, I had to take the sides in on both for a better fit. I think five tanks is more than I need for my fitness classes and for the summer. Might have a think about button-down shirt refashions next maybe.

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Second cup cozy finished

Hello friends. I'm sorry for being absent for so many days. I hope you're all well and happily crafting along. I have not been idle. I have - as usual - several projects on the go at the same time. I need more arms ... or maybe ... I need a few clones! Well, neither option is ever going to happen so I'll just plod on going about my business as usual.

In my last post I showed you an in-progress cup cozy made following a tutorial I had pinned on my 'Things to make' board on Pinterest. Here it is finished.



What have you been up to recently?
Have a great week ahead, friends.

My Creative Space

The space currently has a few ongoing projects around as usual. The hood project is still around - progress is slow. There is another tank to tee refashion somewhere and there is one in-progress book. There is also this -



It's another cup sleeve in an all-cotton Anchor Magicline yarn.

The tutorial can be found here.

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Have a creative day, friends.

Pin Project 4 - cosy cups from now on.

This easy crocheted cup cozy or coffee cup sleeve is something else which was pinned on my ‘Things to make’ board on Pinterest.

The tutorial can be found here.



This is a 100% cotton yarn by Anchor called Magicline. It comes in several colourways and varigated patterns. I think this one is Splash.

The cup sleeve worked up really quick and this is what I finished up with.



My cups of coffee which I have at work will from henceforth be nice and cosy. I like the happy rainbow colours.



I started crocheting another one last night using another colourway of the same cotton yarn from Anchor. I'll show it to you in another post.

Have a wonderful day friends.

A quick loomed cowl

There's a new yarn shop in my local area and they have a 'Knit night' on a Thursday evening. I went along one Thursday, met some really nice ladies and had fun. I had taken my big purple Knifty Knitter round loom along and picked up some Artesano Superchunky alpaca and wool blend yarn. Before I knew it, I had a third of this cowl done by the end of the evening. It didn't take me very long to finish it off either.



It's lovely and warm. I love the colour too.



Now I have a nice cowl wear when the day is cold, the weather's decided to take a bit of turn and it's gone pretty mild around here. Typical.

Hope your week's going well, friends.

Little lovelies

Here's handful of lovely little purses which I finally got around to finishing and photographing this weekend. I had wanted a couple of nice large wooden buttons for two of them and managed to pick some up yesterday.



On the inside, there is a slip pocket for cards and a zip pocket for coins.



These were made using a Keyka Lou pattern. They are great for using up bits of fabric. I've also used up the last of my flat split rings on these. I need to get some more.

The hood project is going slowly. This weekend, I've mostly been messing about with another handbound journal and a couple of small quick crochet projects. I've also decided that I'm keeping the lovely journal I posted about recently for myself and I've started doodling in it. All in all, a crafty and relaxing weekend ... so far. Mr CraftyAdy thinks that it's all really displacement activity and that I am really trying to ignore the pile of ironing languishing in the corner awaiting my attention. He's probably right.

Hope you're having a lovely weekend, friends.