The owl(s)
At the WI meeting last week Eirlys at
Scrapiana showed us an up-cycled owl made from a baby sock. I liked the idea and thought I would see what I could do. The first one really didn't work; rather more odd Japanese cartoon than owl.
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| not a good owl |
However, I persisted and was much happier with the second owl - smaller eyes, closer together and a plain sock.
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| baby sock up-cycled owl |
The third was...ok. I think I prefer the plain coloured sock, rather than patterned.
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| sock owl |
I am enjoying up-cycling and now just need to keep my eyes peeled for gloves and good quality socks (I boil wash them before sewing!). I thought the baby sock offcuts might make nice t-shirts for Ellen Mouse...
The pussy-cats
Once again the cats have taken over my chair!
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| cats |
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| snoozy cats |
Mothers' Day roses
Today is Mothers' day (at least in the UK) so Mark and I took my mum and his parents out for lunch, bought them jasmine plants and planters and I made them a card and a rose brooch each. I experimented with adding beads to the roses - I think a few beads look nice, but got carried away with the second one. The colours have not come out well - they are the top one was actually a pale lilac while the second was a rich pinky purple.
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| beaded rose brooch |
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| beaded rose brooch |
Both mums seemed to have a nice day and liked their gifts...and yesterday my friend from choir came over lunch and bought me lovely flowers too! Anemones; one of my favourites.
The anemones are gorgeous!! But so are the roses, I think the first one, the one with slightly more open petals is really lovely. It's so easy to get carried away with beads, isn't it? :)
ReplyDelete...and it really does seem that Mark will have to buy you a new chair. Or rather, another, chair. Obviously this one belongs to the cats!
I think I am losing it...this comment just ended up in completely the wrong place...hence the deleted comment below.What I tried to say is:
DeleteThe trouble is, if Mark buys another chair, the cats will just have one each!
Ha! I have a solution for that too; A third chair!! Oh, I am clever :-)
DeleteForgot to say; the owls are really cute!
Glad you're still on a roll with the roses, Sue. They're very more-ish. And the sock owls are cute. No need to boil the socks first, by the way, as you're not trying to felt them. Just make sure that they're clean. ;)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely - the hot wash for the socks was just to be sure they were clean, not to try to felt them. It's funny how it feels far more odd using second-hand socks than it does using second-hand gloves!
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ReplyDeleteEasy to choose which owl I like best - the orange fella - but the cats ... both are adorable (and this from a dog person!) :D
ReplyDeleteI am biased I know, but I think the cats are pretty adorable too!
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