I found a bag of yarn on our tour of Trash to Treasure last week. It had some cotton yarn in this soft brown to peach colour combo and I thought I would try to crochet a wash cloth with it. I did a bit of online research because I have not crocheted much of anything lately. I found a place that recommended a #6 hook for this yarn and found one in my bin! Easy single crochets - 31 with one extra on the end to turn the corner. It makes a very decent pattern with enough substance but not too tight!! It took me about 4 hours to make but it is very quiet handwork which is beneficial in so many ways!! It was fun!! Therese
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Friday, October 20, 2023
Cards as Gifts - Note cards featuring aqua flower confetti with a stamped greeting and some with doodling
I was feeling like doing something different for cards the other day so I dug out the little bag of Paula Dean aqua table confetti and played a bit. I found a dozen small light aqua envelopes in my stash and decided they would go nicely together. I decided to use the little note greeting which includes a little envelope and went from there. I started with the set of cards that are below. I added black centers to a few confetti and that looked good with the greeting. The little circles are punchies which I saved a while back while I was punching holes for something!! Generally, I arranged my confetti leaving room for my greeting then glued them into place, added the black centers and then stamped my greeting with black Versafine. I just kept playing and coming up with new layouts. I got to thinking I could draw in black lines so I did the one with the confetti in the corners and added dotted lines. That went well!! So I just started adding lines and dots to the rest of them. Then I thought I could add leaves to some and finally I went a bit over the top with all the swirls around a central greeting. They still needed a bit of something so I decided to add a bit of colour!! I watercoloured the little envelopes yellow which was just the trick. It was good to do that at the end when everything had dried really well.
Had a wonderful time creating and got all of them done in a long afternoon!!! I will be donating these to our church office. Therese