Sunday, August 31, 2008

Hands on painting and cross-stitch

After a long time, perhaps a decade later, I picked up the craft needle to sort of kill time. I had purchased the material and tools a decade ago, but never got to it because of change in interests over the course of time. Most of my spare time, of late, was spent doing window shopping or hanging idly at malls peeping in to get the list of new/updated stock. I may have already purchased all the things I need, but still the temptation to hang-out in a mall and read out the details typed on each cover never ends at all. I think, this is a girly tendency which is very hard to explain :-)
Recently, I have had my hands on few diverse crafts. My roomie had purchased a nice white pant long ago and by mistake, the salesperson forgot to remove the store tag from the apparel. My roomie tried to remove the tag herself and stained the pant with the paint contents present inside the tag... spoiling the nice white pant :( After lying around in the wardrobe for couple of years, an idea struck me... why not paint the area and camouflage it :D That gave me a reason to visit the arts and crafts store (which is one of my least visited stores otherwise). As if a complete professional, I put few bottles of paint, brushes, carbon paper, tracing paper, applique designs in my cart and checked out of the store. I tend to have starting-trouble-mania for anything new. I had to find a pattern to paint. So, searched all around the great net and did not find any which will be short and sweet design. After keeping the items in my shelf for few days, I made up my mind to pick them out and start with no design in specific. Slowly, I placed the applique designs and stuck them on the fabric. I then, picked up colors in random and connected the design... carefully ensuring that the stain is nor visible. End result was not so bad ... isn't it :-)
Next in my craft series was yet another oldie stuff... which I had got very long ago. Slowly I picked up the cross-stitch and completed it after taking some spare time daily :-)
Here it is, aren't those love birds cute :-p)




Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Tatting designs

Some intricate tatting patterns for craft amateurs .....