Crackpot Quilters’ Blog

These are the final two baskets I’ve made so far. I have two more in the works, and I think that will be all as I think there are only 8-10 of us who are participating in the swap project.

We had a program about rug hooking tonight at the fiber arts guild. I didn’t get my little pin finished so there are no photos. But, so far, NaBloPoMo is a success.

This is the White Spirit Doll–at least it’s the front. It is made the same way I made the Not Quite Pink one–on fabric with stable-in-all-directions interfacing under it. It is 4.75 inches tall and 3.5 inches across the arms. I think there are 28 different kinds of beads on this doll.

When I thought of making a white doll, I didn’t know whether there would be enough difference in the beads to show a pattern. But I think it turned out pretty well. Who knew there were so many kinds of white? The Yarn Harlot, that’s who.

It actually looks quite lacy in spots. The bottom part of the doll is covered with sequins, with a tiny gilt-lined bead on top. This is the first time I put sequins on any of my beaded pieces. I will try that again.

Next will be stitching back to front, stuffing, and putting the beaded edging around it.

So now I’ve got this humongous stash of white beads. What to do? What to do?

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Our sewing guild is decorating a tree for the local Free Health Clinic. We are using, of course, a sewing theme. Everyone is contributing decorations. These are the ones I made yesterday. They are my own design, from an idea that came early not that early one morning as I was trying to decide whether to get up.

As always with crackpot projects, there were a few engineering issues to be dealt with, most prominently how to keep the spools on the assigned places on the ribbons. For future reference, the holes in the spools are larger than you might think. I ended up putting a tiny safety pin through the knot below the yellow spool.