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I bet those silk fabrics would make a lovely quilt backing. You could do a regular quite for the top and a crazy quilt type backing out of the silk for the back.

If you have access to rabbit hides they would be a wonderful fur quilt. I can just see it.
 
alforddm":3vfsvre5 said:
I bet those silk fabrics would make a lovely quilt backing. You could do a regular quite for the top and a crazy quilt type backing out of the silk for the back.

If you have access to rabbit hides they would be a wonderful fur quilt. I can just see it.

Yes, more and more I am leaning towards crazy quilting. I need a small bag for my computer mouse and assorted sundries, so I might try a single block and see if I like doing it. I love wild assortments of colours, shapes and textures, so something "crazy" seems to be in order. I need something creative but relaxing to do in the evenings when I am too tired to write.
 
About 10 yrs ago, I got into leatherworking. Over the course of a couple of years, I bought a ton of tools and leather, and then got pregnant with my third child and basically stopped for 8 yrs. I made a few holsters and belts in between for a Christmas or birthday but it really didn't amount to anything.

Well, a month or so ago, my hubby wanted a phone case. He likes a belt clip and has trouble finding something that won't break on him. So I dug out the tools and made an attempt. The first one wasn't very good so I tried again and he really likes it. Somehow I managed to not get a photo of the case...

He's been trying to get me back into leatherworking for a while now because he's bought a few new pistols that needed holsters. So I guess I'm hooked again.

Here are a few things that I've made this month.
 

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I've really been enjoying seeing these pop up on my FB newsfeed! I love the leather work you've been doing, you should pry your husbands cell case away from him and get a picture of that too! I've got a leather phone case / wallet combo that I've been digging really hard ever since I got it a year ago.
 
Thank you! I'll get a photo of the phone case when he gets home this evening.

This one I just finished this morning. Hubby saw a holster he liked online and I made the pattern. I need to make a few adjustments to the pattern as I got the magazine case to close to the folded edge of the holster. This is one of the better jobs of sewing I have done. I got some pricking irons and that has really helped.

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And this one I wasn't happy with at all. I just used it to practice lacing. :lol:

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Thanks everyone!

Here is the phone case as requested. It's designed to fit over his slim fit case that protects against drops.
 

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Hi all! Just finished this weekend's project, thought I'd share it here. I have ten million hobbies (but not sewing, I envy some of the work you all have showed here, so beautiful!) but lately my fiber work has consumed all of my time. I've been processing wool for weeks and now that it's time to dye, blend and spin it hit me that I could really use a blending board and a lazy kate.

Since those things are pricey and hubby has me in the building mood since he finished his timber frame coffee table, I just bought stuff to make my own. I had to buy the carding cloth for the blending board ($70 off Etsy, ouch!!), but I cut, laminated, and planed the poplar slab myself. Also built two, three bobbin tensioned lazy Kate's. The total cost to build all three tools was about $180. Would have been closer to $350-400 to buy it all.

I love making my own stuff!! :D
 

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I paint. I also work with skulls and other natural specimens.
 

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It makes me so happy seeing updates to this thread... I haven't had much time for sewing or spinning or anything really, lately. :(
But on the plus side, I get to pop in here and see the beautiful work all of you do!

Alforddm, the leatherwork is fantastic, I especially like the holsters. :oops:

PSFAngoras, I should try to rig up a lazy kate like that! I've been mostly spinning 2-ply from a center-pull ball, or chain-plying from a single bobbin, but a lazy kate would come in handy!!! :p

:popcorn:
 
All of these items are absolutely beautiful.

As soon as I figure out what to do about Photobucket, I'll post some pictures. It may just be easier to post the link to FB or to my website.



My mother taught me to sew when I was a child, and to crochet. I do a little quilting, but mostly clothes. I made my SILs wedding dress. It's not so much a hobby but I make something when I need it. The crochet picked up in college, along with painting and needle work, and continued until a few years ago, when I decided I wanted to make socks and learned to knit. Obviously we call know one hobby is not enough, knitting became yarn spinning, and that is where the Angoras came in. I had an article published in the Fall 2016 edition of Spin Off magazine, on Angora Yarn spinning on the drop spindle.

Now I primarily spin to weave, with both a rigid heddle and a 4 shaft loom.
 
Ya'll are talented! :p

I am most proficient in...
making a mess. :lol: :oops: Anytime I try to make a craft I either get too impatient to finish it properly and botch it up that way, or I try a lot of attention to detail and it still manages to flop. :shock: Lol, at this point I'll stick to making bunny babies. :D
 
Thought I might show some of my older work. Been awhile since I have had a chance to just sketch something.
Oldest at 14 years ago
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About 9 years ago
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While in class on anatomy.... :oops:
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