Showing posts with label Eye Spy.... Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eye Spy.... Show all posts

Monday, August 24, 2009

Eye Spy... something I'd like to try (properly)

Oh boy. This is a tough topic (thank you Kimono Reincarnate!) for someone with creative ADHD. I guess I could pick something non-craft-related that I'd like to try, such as truffles, or running a half-marathon. But that's not really where I'm at right now. It's all about the craft, baby.
Here's something I did try, for the first time last week, and would now like to try properly:

Dry-felting. I have no dry- or wet-felting experience, only woollen-jumper fulling (as seen here). But my lovely in-laws, knowing my propensity for moving from one creative project to another with lightening speed, gave me a random gift of alpaca-fleece rovings on their last visit. So I found me some needles and had a good jab.

It's a kind of fun, weird, cathartic process, all that poking and gouging. Now I'd like to give it a real go. I'm not sure whether it was my (completely improvised) technique or the unique properties of alpaca wool, but it kind of looks and feels like a weird itchy fox tale. Oh well. Destined to become a brooch, anyway.
Thanks Cindy for the fun... perhaps Eye Spy is something YOU'D like to try?

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Eye Spy... Something Red.

I don't have to look very far in my world to find something RED...

...so I figured it was the week to join in with bugandpop's Eye Spy for the first time.

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