Our Spot: Skills

Friday, March 27, 2009

Skills

My sister Jessi has skills. Cooking skills, cleaning skills, business skills, catering skills, and she's funny. And oh, yeah crocheting skills...I wish I had skills...sword fighting, numb chucks, light saber...here's my attempt at crocheting a hat under my sister's tutelage. Thanks Jess! Now for the scarf!

5 comments:

kg said...: Well done! I want one for Christmas :); March 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Kate said...: You are beautiful!; March 27, 2009 at 5:40 PM
Cami said...: Nice work!! You definitely have skills.; March 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Elizabeth said...: OK I totally think of you as someone with tons of skills. Drawing, painting, exercising, creative and now you can add crocheting to the list. Very cute!; March 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Anonymous said...: You look great....for a girl that is going to have a baby...and your hat looks good too=) I agree about the girl with tons of skills. You definatly qualify for the "tons" list. =); March 30, 2009 at 3:36 PM

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Fall Felt Flower Wreath
Try this tutorial site for how to make the felt flower.
http://junepfaffdaley.blogspot.com/2009/09/sweet-sweater-rosettes.html (I changed part of this method, see below)

Items Needed:
12" Styrofoam wreath
20 - 24 felt sheets from the craft store
fabric scissors
glue gun (with plenty of sticks)
berry sprigs, garland, whatever you can find for cheep

Note on flowers: After cutting the spiral I rolled my flower up with out glueing. I added a dab of hot-melt at the end. I did not put a felt circle bottom on the flower either. I just went with gusto on the glue and stuck it to the wreath ;) That's crafting my way.

Method: First I cut two and a half of my felt sheets into one inch strips. Spiraling the strips around my wreath I glued them to the styrofoam surface. Next I went to work on the flowers.

For the Three largest flowers I simply cut the spiral and then loosily "swirled" it and added hot-melt wherever needed. I cut three sizes of flowers (5 in, 4in, and 2 in) That made something like 8 large, 12 medium, and a gazillion small flowers (don't worry you'll need them). After making all my flowers I went about arranging them. That's the hardest part for me. AND the nice part for you since you can put them anywhere you want. In the end I decided I wanted My focal spot to be the bottom right "corner" of the wreath.

I started with gluing the three large flowers first. I then snipped off a few berry's and glued them in the centers. Then I just worked out from there, using the 5in flowers to get me going out away from the focal flowers. Because I used five colors in my wreath (sage green, berry, tan, chocolate, and mustard) I tried to not only work with the right size where I needed it but also tried not to have the same color ever touching. With five colors it was easier to accomplish this than I thought. One thing I learned was to periodically lift my project up to make sure I was covering enough surface area that I didn't see the skin of on the inside or the outside of the wreath.

Voila! Ready to hang.