Check out my recent Etsy listings = )
If you just want the wood pattern and the vinyl, then see below:
If you just want the wood pattern and the vinyl, see below:
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Bottled Sunshine wood craft
This is one of my favorite wood crafts... it makes me smile = )
Here is the pattern for those of you who want to make it yourself...
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Here is the pattern for those of you who want to make it yourself...
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... and for those who would rather buy one, you can do that here:
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
Saturday, October 4, 2014
polar bear wood craft
Polar bear wood craft - mama bear and babies...
Here is a picture of the unfinished wood bears.
They can be purchased on Etsy here:
... and here they are all painted and sanded and washed and everything...
They can be purchased on Etsy here:
and here is the pattern for you do-it-yourselfers...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Ice skates door decoration wood craft
Here is what will hang on my door this winter...
and here is the pattern:
and here is the pattern:
I am thinking about offering the cut wood and finished products for some of the wood crafts I have posted on my blog... would anyone be interested? I would probably have to go through Etsy...
ok, here you go.. = )
If you would like to purchase the cut wood for this project you can do that here:
If you would like to purchase the finished product, you can do that here:
Monday, September 1, 2014
Baby It'sCold Outside wood craft
This is a total Pinterest knock off..
The snowflake came from Hobby Lobby.. it has a round base and a 3/8" dowel.
Both the base and the dowel are painted the same color as the snowman hat: Apple Barrel - Pavement. The snowman and snowflake are painted light ivory.
The snowman nose is Americana - Persimmon. (Just because that was the only orange I had)
The sign is painted Apple Barrel - Medium Gray. The sign is washed with light ivory then sanded when dry.
Here is the wood pattern. This is the snowman I found on Pinterest but mine looks a little different...
valentine wood craft conversation hearts
Wood craft for next Valentines Day (2015).
I painted them with light ivory first, then with
Folk Art - Baby Pink 633
Apple Barrel - Lemon Chiffon 20584
Craft Smart - Lush Foilage
(which is the same as FolkArt Fresh Foilage)
wood pattern
vinyl pattern
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Lead Me, Guide Me, Walk Beside Me..
This is a total Pinterest knock off... I love how it turned out!!
Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam blocks
I love how this turned out.. = )
The blocks are painted periwinkle blue with a white paint wash on top that I dabbed off with a paper towel..
The sun is painted yellow then the front is covered with yellow cardstock that had gone through my Cuttlebug embossing folder. Then I rubbed over it with a sponge rubbed on a white ink pad..
and here is the pattern for it..
The blocks are cut out of 2 x 4's and the sunshine is cut out of 1" wood.
The Sunbeam block is about 8 1/8" long
wood craft summer flowers
This wood craft lived above my fireplace for several months. I like it a lot..
If you want patterns I can post them. = )
Fall decoration
So, here is what I currently have above my fireplace.. I quite like it and thought I'd share. If anyone wants patterns, let me know and I'll post them. = )
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Whole Armor of God chalkboard...
So, I hijacked my daughter's chalkboard picture of her girl warrior....
maybe she'll add the shield of faith for me.. = )
and here it is with a shield.... Elise is so awesome! = )
Sunday, June 1, 2014
halloween crafts
Witch boots
These are cuter than they look....
Raven
This looks better as a background piece...
Spider
pattern with the pinterest picture.
The Eyes and nose are cut out of thin 1/4"ish pine. The body is 2 x 4. The legs are wire..
Poison Bottles
This pattern includes paper corks...
I purchased the bottles here:
http://www.specialtybottle.com/amberbostonroundglassbottlesmi.aspx
and I used these particular bottles:
Bstn Rnd Amber 4 oz. (BRA4)
Bstn Rnd Amber 8 oz. (BRA8)
Strgt sided 9 oz. Amber jar CS-12 (SS9A)
gp Packer Glass Amber 60cc w/ blk lid (GPA60B)
GP Packer Glass Amber 250cc w/ Blk lid
The bottles with shipping will cost around $10
All of these bottles come with lids but I didn't use them for this..
I found some corks here:
http://www.widgetco.com/cork
but I haven't ordered any because it was going to cost another $10 (including shipping). It's been a few weeks since I visited the site and the corks I had put in my cart that I thought would fit the bottles are no longer in the cart... (I didn't want to figure it all out again) I figured that my paper corks are fine for this since there isn't actually anything in the bottles and if I do put anything in there, it won't be liquid. And I can always buy corks later.. = )
I printed them onto cardstock then cut them out. I used a pencil to trace the cut out cardstock pattern onto the back of the book page. I then used a thin placemat as a cutting mat.
Believe Christ wood and vinyl craft
This is from a talk by Stephen E Robinson called
Believing Christ: A Practical Approach to the Atonement.
It can be found here:
http://speeches.byu.edu/?act=viewitem&id=489
Here is the font info for those of you with vinyl cutting machines..
My friend just scanned this in and cut it with her machine for me. She said it was easier than trying to re-create it with the fonts..
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Summer Sweater
So, to make my girl's dresses modest - it's impossible to find a sleeved dress for summertime - I made them some little sweaters...
I used size 3 crochet thread and a 3.5 mm hook. For me, this is very loose crochet.
Main body of sweater:
Neck:
Trim Stitch diagram:
Sleeves:
The dress on the left was too short so I added some crochet lace layers to lengthen it...
I used size 3 crochet thread and a 3.5 mm hook. For me, this is very loose crochet.
Main body of sweater:
Here is the stitch used on the main body of the sweater....
First off, if you have the clothing you want the sweater to fit over, then use it for your base chain. The decorative stitch I am going to be using for the trim uses multiples of (12) +2 so while making the base chain, I counted to 12 then started again until it was the desired length then the +2 chains. For this step, it's better to go a bit big than small.
For this particular sweater, I only have measurements. Make sure that after 6 rows that it is still the right measurement and that the rows aren't pulling in tighter. This is difficult for me to remember to crochet so loosely. (I had to undo my first attempt and add another 12 chains because it pulled in an inch by the time I had rows done.)
After 6 rows, I add the sleeves. To figure out the sleeves, I find the center and mark it with a pin. Then I fold the sides over to almost meet in the center and mark the sides with pins. Then I count stitches to make sure it's all symetircal. The base chain for the sleeves is a few stitches less than half the entire length. Again, the trim stitch is multiples of (12) so I had to plan accordingly. This time, it's better to go a bit small than big. I only work 3 rows on the sleeves. Even though they're worked in the round, remember to turn the rows.
Here are the sleeves done so far. I laid them out this way to show you how long they should be.
Attaching the sleeves....
Right sides together.. put the hook through both layers - the sweater and the sleeve and work the SC. Chain 1 then go on with the stitch. You only attach the sleeve with one stitch on this row.
...the attached sleeve and working on ...
Here are both sleeves attached. Work to the end as usual and turn as usual.
When you get back to the sleeve, the chain right before the stitch that joins the sleeve, draw yarn through.
...like this...
now see the chain 1 on the other side of the joining stitch going up the sleeve? Draw up yarn here too.
...like this...
yarn over and draw hook through all three loops on hook like this. You just did a stitch reduce.
chain 1 and continue on around the sleeve... when you get to the other "corner" work the stitch reduce.
See the arrows? They are pointing to the chain 1 on either side of the stitch reduce. This is where you will do the stitch reduce on the next row...
Here is the sleeve so far... You can see that it gets progressively smaller as you work the rows.
Now it's time for the trim at the neck.
First, I switch to a smaller hook: 2.5 mm. and do a single crochet all the way around.
At the corners, do the stitch reduce the same way:
with the chain 1 space on either side of the previous stitch reduce..
Neck:
All done with the single crochet row.
Now is where you have to get creative... In order for the stitches to line up with the corners like I wanted, I had to do 3 double crochet at the beginning of this row and at the end. Thankfully, the other corners lined up properly.
Here you can see how I worked the corners.
For this row, I did a single crochet on top of the double crochet from the last row then chain 2... a repeat of the last row only with single crochet rather than double crochet. Here is the corner... I worked a stitch reduce through the spaces and stitches of the corners...
... like this...
done with that row...
... the next row...
I had to get creative again because there weren't the right number of spaces on the back for the pattern to work. I had to add this little space in the center back to make the corners work.
If anyone wants the chart for the stitches I used for the neck, let me know.. You can use any stitch you want, it just can be a little tricky to make it work.
Turn the sweater up-side-down and with the 2.5 mm hook single crochet across the bottom.
Here is the bottom trim all done. This is the front.
Finishing the front edges:
Now turn the sweater and single crochet up the side...
all the way to the top.
Turn it around and now do a slip stitch on the back side down to the bottom.
Like this.
Turn it one more time and slip stitch back up to the top. This makes this edge sturdier.
Like this.
Adding the button:
Do the same for the other side... single crochet down the front, slip stitch up the back, then slip stitch down the front again. Near the top attach the button. You can see the red thread I used to pull the loop through the button.
Put the hook in the loop then pull it up against the button.
Continue slip stitching down the front.
...like this...
Because I forgot to do the button hole on the other side, I get to add it now. I attached the yarn right up next to the last stitch on this side. then I slip stitched down a few spaces then did a tight chain 10 then slip stitched in in the same stitch then worked back up and finished it all off...
Here's the button through the button hole.
oh, here's the stitch I used for the trim.
The measuring tape shows how long the sleeves need to be... using this type of tape measure makes it easy to determine how much needs to be added to the sleeves...
without moving the tape measure just retract the end to the edge of the sleeve... I need to add 15" to the sleeve. I also need to reduce it by two sections..(Does that make sense?)
Start the sleeve the same way as the trim around the bottom... single crochet around with the 2.5 mm hook. This picture looks up-side down to me...
And, finally, it is all done... I hope it fits!
Normally, I work short sleeves. For that you'd only work a couple of rows on the sleeves.
Here is a picture of the sleeve where I did the stitch reduce. It's really hard to tell where it is but there is one row that you can identify if you look.... = )
This is the underside of the arm, where a seam would typically be.
This is the diagram of how I reduced the stitch pattern by one over 7 (or 9) rows....
The first four rows shown are the regular stitch diagram. The arrow is pointing to the first reduced section. I I reduced the sleeves by 2 sections with one regular section in-between.
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