Craft-A-Day : Rainbow Week!!!

....Still raining wherever you are??? Or you have, eventually, some rainbows??? ;oD

Ready for some rainbow crafts ???
Honestly I am!!!
What would you like to create :

• a Rainbow Plant Stick ?

• a Rainbow Magnet?
• a Rainbow Gadget Sleeve?

• a Mini Rainbow Stick Card?
• a Rainbow Straw?

• a Rainbow Topper?
• a Rainbow Cake Topper???

Rainbow your days!!! Have fun!!!

If you love to join me in this adventure, please do it and remember that you are really welcome, anytime!!!
If you want to read more about this crafty journey, please read this post or just scroll to the top and click on Craft-A-Day Year Project tab (just under my blog title&description on the right!)! Thank you !!!

xxxx Alessandra

Blanket w.i.p. update!!!!

Just some photos to show you where I am...

....me... playing with the blankie....

back to normal stuff...I think it's better (;oD)....

.....more to come!!!!!

xxxx Alessandra

Flower Week : my crafts !!!

This was an easy thinking!

I grabbed an oval canvas (20x30cm) and some acrylic colours, as ochre yellow...

...and some neon pink...

...then, using the template given in the book, I cut out some daisies from white felt and I chose 3 buttons for the centres...

...with some red cotton thread, I sew both the buttons and the flowers on the canvas...

with a simple backstitch and some green thread, I sew later the stems...

to finish the ochre vase, I glued a ribbon along the "border"and used it even around the canvas...

Last touch? Another ribbon, this time a floral one, on the top back of the "piece of art" (!!!!!), just to hang it somewhere in the house...

This is where my LINK is!!!!

xxxx Alessandra

A nice piece of fabric....

....I just made using these circles, that I laid the other night on my studio desk...

What to do with them all???

....use them perpendicular to each other or just a little bit shifted????

Eventually, I opted for the shifted arrangement!!!
So I started by sewing horizontal strips using a tapestry needle and some matching/contrasting yarn

Pick 2 adjacent circles and pass the needle from the back of any stitch of the first disc and push the same needle in any stitch (from the front) of the second circle

Pass the needle (from the back) in the next stitch (on the left) of the first disc and pass it in the next stitch of the second circle (again from the front) (sequence to follow : A-B-C-D)

On the back of this couple of discs, tie a double knot and cut off the tails!

back

front

....and repeat this stitching for the remnants circles of the same row! Note that from the third circle on pay more attention in the selection of the stitches to use in the joining : you are making a kind of straight row!!! ok?

Another strip on the way....

After a while all the strips were done...

Next step : join the strips together!

I just used one stitch for each contact point between each circle!

And strip after strip

Some little knots on their back

A fabric made of "tons" of circles !!!!
How to use it : horizontal strips...

...or vertical strips ???.....

but this is not the only dilemma that I have.....
I'm still thinking how to use this nice piece of fabric......give me some days to figure it out !!!! ;oD

xxxx Alessandra

Today links : Creative Friday, Link your Stuff! and Craft Schooling Sunday!