Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint where, every year in February, participants commit to creating one new thing a day and post it on a collective blog. 2010 is thing-a-day's fourth edition and the first to run on Posterous. Get all the info here.
thing-a-day 2010
ppaulhus
missmoun
cneu
kraphti-dez
Simone
Lida Garcia
laughinglark
Meguey Baker
Klaus Fruchtnis
Over the last month I have neglected my own website Pom Pom Emporium , some what, in favour of TAD. Now we have reached the last day, I'm work on a tutorial for my own blog, to post later in March. It's an Easter project, a bunny made from a face cloth!
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Tried making flowers from Suffolk puffs (yo-yo's), quite pleased with the results, another textile flower to file away for future reference.
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Today I made a greeting card.
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I knitted a Blue Bird of Happiness Chick today. If you want to knit one of these for Easter (you put a Cadbury's Creme egg inside), I have a free pattern for a knitted chick containing a creme egg on my website
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I'm knitting a plain red necklace in cotton yarn, it's making my fingers hurt! I don't find cotton yarn as easy to knit with as wool, it doesn't have the same amount of 'give', especially when knitting fiddly items on DPNs. I'm using larger needles than I would normally, the cotton is quite thick, the beads are turning out to be quite substantial, good job I like a statement!
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Following on from the i-cord flower post of yesterday, I made a forget-me-not brooch today.
I knitted two stems from i-cord, one slightly longer than the other, then attached these to the back of the flowers. I knotted the stems and arranged the flowers. I can either attach the blooms directly to a garment or back the flowers with felt and sew on a pin.
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I painted some terracotta pots this morning. I used tester pots of emulsion paint, for kitchens, I chose pastel shades. I sponged the paint on to the clean pots, sponging gives a smooth finish, no paintbrush marks. I left the pots to dry. To make the polka dots I used a piece of doweling dipped in white emulsion paint. They make me think spring is round the corner. Wishful thinking?
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