Well, hello again everyone and here I am at last after heaven knows how many long months (a year or more, even!) away from this blog, very sorry for the over long absence but I *will* make up for it, I promise!!!
I've now taken early retirement from both my posts with the local Council and am attempting to follow my dream full time so here we go, adventures with fabric beads.....
These are made from a mixture of fabrics, felt and fibres, I'm kind of leaning towards preferring the felt ones but the ribbon based ones are quite fun too:)
Following a disastrous attempt at using a hot glue gun (why oh why do I always burn myself when I do stuff like that?!) I've used PVA glue and it's worked brilliantly.
Initially I was winding them round a crochet hook but got confuzzled with getting them so that I could still thread some wire or tiger tail through, then I hit on the idea of cutting up drinking straws to wind them round; ta da, success at last!
I've also just done some that are wire wrapped and I'm really excited about those, no photos of them yet but there soon will be:)
<<< And these ones are now listed in my Etsy supplies shop! The first of many and I am definitely going to carry on with the wire wrapped idea, the more I think about it the more I like it:)
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About Me
- Linden
- I'm a 62 year old married woman living in West Yorkshire. Until a few years ago I was juggling two busy jobs with running a craft business but I took early retirement from both of them in order to follow my creative dreams. I mainly make jewellery but have recently re-engaged with my first love of fabric crafts by way of wet felting and embroidery. I'm also a wire-work-a-holic and regularly list my wire designs in my Etsy supplies shop. We live in a large early nineteenth century house with a garden that we never seem to quite get on top of, though we have a lot of fun trying. We have a much loved cat, Bilbo, who has us totally twisted around his little paws.