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[Almeta]

Sarah wrote: "Awww. I'm so surprised I never saw this thread before =O I've been making loads of loom bands and I make cards, so I'll load up the handmade Valentine's Card when I've completed it =]..."

OK, I can't pretend I know what a Loom Band is.

Get your camera out. I'll have to see examples of this as well!☻

[Sarah]

Almeta wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Awww. I'm so surprised I never saw this thread before =O I've been making loads of loom bands and I make cards, so I'll load up the handmade Valentine's Card when I've completed it =]..."

Oh really =O have you heard of Scoobies?

I got into scoobies whilst I was at school it was a craze and now these loom bands have come out and it's the new craze. It's quite fun =D I'll get some photos ready then. Can make bracelets and rings, key chains some people have even made a dress and suit out of loom bands =O It's amazing check it out on Google.

Loom bands are just small rubber bands and you loop them together. I'll go convert my pics and place on photobucket and then I'll give you a look =]

[Sarah]

I shall have to upload them tomoz boooo *shakes fist* but I will. I wrote a reminder down on my phone.

[Roz]

Who knew we had such talented people in our midst? That looks like a lot of work, ladies. Beautiful!

[Peggy]

Love yours too Debra!

And thanks Paakhi and Sarah :) I can't really do anything except crochet. I attempted knitting once but gave up, although I'm sure it's also not that hard to learn when you don't give up immediately like I did ;-)

[Peggy]

Can't edit on my phone, so new message: I think crochet might be easier because you've only got the one needle and accidentally taking the needle out of your stitches doesn't mess up your work as much.

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Jeez you guys! Both look amazing!

[Melissa]

I crochet and I do not knit. My mother taught me to knit and grandmother/aunt taught me crochet. As a child I always had trouble with tension and never was serious about either. As an adult I have carpal tunnel syndrome and find that crochet is much easier to manage than knitting. Not sure why, but I can crochet right through the numbness but not knit.

I wish I had more patience for those cute little critters like Peggy has made so beautifully! I've done a few for my daughter, but give me a nice big scrap blanket any day with not so many fiddly bits.

Those glass mosaics are stunning! Wow! so much talent here!

[Canadian Dragon]

Janice wrote: "This was 9 years in the making! I finally finished tacking down the binding yesterday.



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That is so nice

[Canadian Dragon]

Peggy wrote: "You all make such beautiful things! The quilts are amazing, there must be so much time invested in them. Awesome!

I started crocheting. My aim was to make amigurumi animals, I bought a box for beg..."


what a cute little owl

[Canadian Dragon]

Peggy wrote: "I've also made a tiny bee and a dog to surprise my sister. Crochet is so much fun!

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I love the dog

[Canadian Dragon]

Almeta wrote: "Debra and I just finished a Glass Mosaic class.
Here is my Red Eyed Tree Frog in glass pieces and grout.

very neat



I'll make sure Debra shows you her awesome artwork as well."

[Canadian Dragon]

Almeta wrote: "Debra's at work right now, so I'm posting her masterpiece.

The Blue Heron and the Red-Winged Blackbird play significant roles in Debra's and Jeff's lives. Maybe she can elaborate later...or not!
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very nice

[Canadian Dragon]

you guys are so creative. Thanks for sharing

[Cherie]

The mosaics really are well done and BEAUTIFUL, Almeta and Debra. Yes, I remember the frog picture.

I tried a glass mosaic class, but we did not use grout. It was not cut, like yours, but more small tumbled glass pieces. They were glued onto a clear glass jar. Like most of my projects, I never finished it, but I had a good time. I like to do standard mosaic with stones or tiles. I like to make stepping stones with broken plate pieces. I have stacks and stacks of plates that I have collected over the years. Right now, they are gathering dust in my garage. It is like counted cross stitch - I love to make the picture, but I hate to do the back stitching. I also hate to do the grouting steps.

Be proud ladies, you have finished projects!!!

[Janice, Moderator]

Tasha☺ wrote: "That is so nice"

Thanks Tasha. I use that quilt every day. When I get up in the morning, I throw a hoodie on over my jammies and wrap up in that quilt while catching up on Goodreads.

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "I love to make the picture, but I hate to do the back stitching. ..."

I'm the same Cherie.

My knitted sweater pieces never got blocked nor attached to one another, my sewing projects never got hemmed nor the facings tacked down, Bargello squares never got backed and stuffed with pillow batting, cross-stitch never got framed, etc.

[Janice, Moderator]

And I have a number of quilt tops that are awaiting the quilting process. The making of the tops is the fun part. The quilting & binding; not so much.

[Almeta]

Janice wrote: "And I have a number of quilt tops that are awaiting the quilting process. The making of the tops is the fun part. The quilting & binding; not so much."

lol! I'm pretty sure that's why I never took up quilting. I would just have a basket full of
un-assembled squares.☻

[Cherie]

Hey, Almeta, how did you know I had that box of quilt pieces that have never been sown together? I won't tell you how many sweaters have never been completed or sewn together. I think I have one in a trunk that I started before my oldest daughter was born (she is 40). I think it is still on the original needles (so small that it took a whole day to do two rows). I have at least three complete sweaters for a four or five year old that only need to be sewn up. Don't get me started on socks that have no brother or are only half done. I am better than I used to be - at least more realistic before starting things, but something always comes along that seems like it would be fun to do. Yarn and material, like books, one can never have enough!

[Almeta]

Cherie wrote: "Hey, Almeta, how did you know I had that box of quilt pieces that have never been sown together? I won't tell you how many sweaters have never been completed or sewn together. I think I have one ..."

LMAO!

Apparently we are cut from the same cloth ! HaHa

[Janice, Moderator]

I have lots of quilts in progress too. I have them all listed in a notebook. One of these days....

Haha - cut from the same cloth. It's the fabric that holds us together.

[Sarah]

Peggy wrote: "And thanks Paakhi and Sarah :) I can't really do anything except crochet. I attempted knitting once but gave up, although I'm sure it's also not that hard to learn when you d..."

Lol, I did try knitting once, quite some time back and I just couldn't get the hang of it, I kept dropping them off the needles, and it was so annoying. I've done cross stitch when I was younger, but I came away from that. I'll have to take a picture of the latch hook rug I made. At the end of the month when I'm back home I'll upload a picture =]

[Sarah]

Here are some of the loom bands I've made

This is my fave:



It's not really crafty, but it keeps your hands busy and they are fun to make =]

[Sandra, Moderator]

My kids love those bands!

[Lisa]

I'm liking the loom bands Sarah! :)

[Sarah]

Sandra wrote: "My kids love those bands!"

Hehe, they get everywhere don't they =P

Thanks Lisa =] I tried 'The Illusion' you spoke about, it's quite nice. I made a christmassy one with white, green and red and another in white, blue and silver. Will take photos when I'm back home.

[Sandra, Moderator]

Sarah wrote: "Sandra wrote: "My kids love those bands!"

Hehe, they get everywhere don't they =P

The did some last year at school as part of a project. I think is a great way to develop fine skills.
One of my little ones learned how to undo them and eat the small bands, so we agreed in not having them around the house for a while...

[Sarah]

Sandra wrote: "The did some last year at school as part of a project. I think is a great way to develop fine skills.
One of my little ones learned how to undo them and eat the small bands, so we agreed in not having them around the house for a while... "

Eep, not good. Cheeky, how old is your youngest? My bf's nephew does the same thing, he chews on them, so they don't have them in their house anymore.

[Lisa]

Sarah wrote: "Sandra wrote: "My kids love those bands!"

Hehe, they get everywhere don't they =P

Thanks Lisa =] I tried 'The Illusion' you spoke about, it's quite nice. I made a christmassy one with white, gree..."

Hehe yes, I noticed you had tried it out. It turned out really well! I will have to take a photo of the one I made. It's white, pink and blue.

[Sandra, Moderator]

He was around 18 months when he started with the bad habit...

[Cherie]

Sarah wrote: "I'll have to take a picture of the latch hook rug I made. At the end of the month when I'm back home I'll upload a picture =] ..."

(((Sigh)))...latch hook rugs. Yes, we would love to see your picture, Sarah, but I never finished one of those either. I think I still have two of them out in the garage still in their original boxes. My girls used to love to play with all of those wonderful little bits of cut yarn. I had a 3x5 ft rug kit that was called "fireside" or "fireglow" (I can't remember). I came home from work one day and found that they had opened all of the packages and dumped them all together into the bin that I kept everything in. They were helping me...

[Stephanie]

Ooohhh!! I love latchhook! I did a lot of those growing up! I sometimes, though, would run out of the little yarn by a few! I couldn't have possibly screwed up somewhere ;-)
Do they still make latchhook stuff? I can't remember the last time I saw them.

[Sarah]

Cherie wrote: "(((Sigh)))...latch hook rugs. Yes, we would love to see your picture, Sarah, but I never finished one of those either. I think I still have two of them out in the garage still in their original boxes. My girls used to love to play with all of those wonderful little bits of cut yarn... "

Lol oh dear. Maybe you could have another go Cherie? I know they do kits on Amazon. I'll defo show you mine soon. I half completed another one (they are both Eeyore) however I was going to make that one into a pillow and for some reason I stopped for a while to gte the stuffing material and never picked it up again. I shall have to dig it out and continue it.

Stephanie wrote: "Ooohhh!! I love latchhook! I did a lot of those growing up! I sometimes, though, would run out of the little yarn by a few! I couldn't have possibly screwed up somewhere ;-)
Do they still make lat..."

I know they do some here in the big crafting store in the UK; Hobbycraft. But I have seen some on Amazon too. Yes I used to run out of the yarn as well, never enough in those things. When I used to do cross stitch I always ran out of black =/

Has anyone heard of rag-rugging? I saw this and it looks adorable. But I've never heard of that technique before.

[Stephanie]

That is adorable, Sarah! I bet if I made one someday, I could put a squeaker in it and make a toy for Blake :) I would, of course, have to make it large enough for him not to be able to swallow whole :-)

[Almeta]

Sarah wrote: "Here are some of the loom bands I've made

This is my fave:

It's not really crafty, but it keeps your hands busy and they are fun to make =]"

Really cool! I'm glad you showed us.

[Almeta]

What the heck? The "reply-XXX wrote" words are in white print. Anything bracketed in the italicized HTML is affected.

It looks as though the words are not there, but if you copy and paste that section into notebook (or something else), the words show up!

Heading over to Feedback Group.

[Mariab]

Almeta wrote: "What the heck? The "reply-XXX wrote" words are in white print. Anything bracketed in the italicized HTML is affected.

It looks as though the words are not there, but if you copy and paste that s..."

The secret code for readers in GR

[Almeta]

Mariab wrote: "The secret code for readers in GR ..."

It could be cool if we could really do this ourselves! Better than Spoilers.

ETA Now things are back to normal, er, as close to normal as we get.

[Sarah]

I made a rag rug at school in arts and crafts. I loved doing it and I thought it was pretty easy and a great way to use up odd scraps of fabric. my nan still has it in front of her tv.

[Melissa]

I'm so glad to know I'm not alone with my abandoned crafts! I used to do latch-hook kits as a kid and never did a thing with any of them. Not sure that I ever actually finished any, for that matter.

I have a quilt that one of my roommates and I started for a third roommate when she was pregnant with her first child. That baby is now a 20-year old college student and that quilt has been sitting in a tub awaiting nothing more than binding for nearly a decade now.

I will say, cross-stitching is one thing I have a somewhat better track record for. I actually have finished, framed pieces in my house and in others. I probably have an equal number of unframed, unfinished pieces up in my craft space.

This is why I think I prefer crocheting afghans. Very little finishing required, compared to all the little critters (adorable though they may be).

[Debra]

Cherie wrote: "The mosaics really are well done and BEAUTIFUL, Almeta and Debra. Yes, I remember the frog picture.

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Thanks, Cherie! I'm notorious for starting projects and not finishing. Since, Almeta and I had the benefit of a structured class environment and a teacher urging us on, we were able to complete our mosaics in the allotted 20 hours. It was a photo finish, but we did it.

Everyone's projects here are so nice. Now, I HAVE to finish my hat with attached scarf I'm knitting. Maybe it will be ready for NEXT winter! haha Oh... and there are those fingerless gloves I'm supposed to be knitting for Almeta. Seems reading takes precedence over most everything!

[Almeta]

Debra wrote: "Now, I HAVE to finish my hat with attached scarf I'm knitting. Maybe it will be ready for NEXT winter! haha Oh... and there are those fingerless gloves I'm supposed to be knitting for Almeta. Seems reading takes precedence over most everything!
..."

You should be showing off the recently completed scarf and finger-less gloves of your own.

[Suzanne]

I've enjoyed reading the thread about all the unfinished crafts. I'm not the only one! I have a closet full of yarn, cross-stitch and quilting pieces that I refuse to get rid of because I still want to find time to work on them. A week ago, I decided to carve out an hour or two each evening to pick up a project in progress. I chose an afghan I had started crocheting a year ago. Happily, I finished it last night. Maybe this will be the year I complete all those "in-progress" craft projects!

[Peggy]

I started crocheting a blanket in January 2014. It does not even cover my feet, one year later. I think huge projects are not for me.

My latest two crochet animals I made for my aunt, she asked if I could make a schnauzer or a horse.

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And this one I made as a birthday surprise for another aunt, and it's the first one for which I actually felt very sad about giving it away
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[Sarah]

Wow Peggy! I bet they were really chuffed with those. I can see why you felt sad giving that last one away - I love the colours and those ears!

[Almeta]

Peggy wrote: "I started crocheting a blanket in January 2014. It does not even cover my feet, one year later. I think huge projects are not for me.

My latest two crochet animals I made for my aunt, she asked i..."

So cute. and excellent craftsmanship. I think you found "the craft for you".

[Janice, Moderator]

Aww! Your crocheted critters are cute!

[Tasha]

I love that last little dog!! it's so darn cute!

[Lisa]

They are lovely Peggy! The last dog is very cute! However, I think my favourite is the little schnauzer. It is adorable! I am a bit of a schnauzer fan :)