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Temari Workshop
The workshop at Can Do Books has been rescheduled. I was to be this Saturday and will now be held on Saturday March 18. There are two parts to the workshop, how to wrap a ball and then secondly how to...
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Temari Workshop
Just a reminder that I will be holding a workshop to embroider a temari ball. In fact there are two workshops that day, first learn how to wrap a ball (12-12.30pm), then how to embroider this pattern...
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Kits for Workshop
I have been putting together the kits for the upcoming workshops at Can Do Books. These are for the first class, How to Make a Wrapped Ball. There is more information in the workshops heading of the...
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Workshop Kits
The kits for the Workshops at Can Do Books have been finished. These ones are for the Temari Class, making an embroidered ball. The workshops will be held next Saturday, the 18th of April. Learn how...
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Temari Workshop
Tomorrow is the day for the workshop at Can Do Books. Firstly on how to wrap a ball, then how to embroider a temari ball. There are two people booked in each class, which is great, should be fun.
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Polymer Clay Beads
I went to a class yesterday at Can Do Books to learn colour mixing and making beads out of polymer clay. These are my beads just before they were baked at home. The large one was a bit of playing...
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Needlelace Class
Yesterday was the first of six lessons in Intermediate Needlelace at the Embroiderer’s Guild. I really enjoyed the class. I really don’t have a lot to show as needlelace is a craft that is best done...
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Needlelace
I have finished most of my homework for the needlelace class. These are two of the five stitch samples that needed to be done. Of course these are the first attempts. I tried different fabrics and...
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Needlelace Homework
I went to my second needlelace class at the Embroiderer” Guild yesterday. I managed to finish my homework for that class, a couple of stitch pads and practice five stitches. I didn’t mount the...
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Temari Workshop
Still sick, but have been working on the second assignment for the needlelace class. I don’t want to show that just yet. There will be another temari workshop at Can Do Books, sometime in November....
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Temari Workshop
I will be holding another Temari Workshop at Can Do Books on Saturday the 5th of December. You can make either the red ball or the turquoise one, both are in the same stitches just using different...
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Temari Workshop
The sofa bed in the craft room was clear the other day, now it isn’t. Getting everything ready for the temari workshop at Can Do Books on Saturday.
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Bobbin Lace Class
I have signed up to do a bobbin lace class at the Embroiderer’s Guild. It starts on Thursday, there are four lessons, three Thursdays in a row, miss one, then the next Thursday. I have borrowed a lace...
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Bobbin Lace Class
Yesterday I went to my first bobbin lace class at the Embroiderer’s Guild. Here are some photos as it went along. This is a sample piece to learn the different stitches, tension, when to put in pins,...
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Bobbin Lace Class
Today is the second lesson in bobbin lace at the Embroiderer’s Guild. I finished my homework, completing the sampler from last week. Here it is before and after taking it off the lace pad. It is only...
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Bobbin Lace Sampler
I managed to finish the next sampler in class yesterday. Then I set up the next one and wrapped bobbins for it. I made a start but rushed it and mades some mistakes, so I will undo and start again.
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Quilling
Yesterday I did a quilling class at Can Do Books with Christine Donehue, a quilling expert from Sydney. Quilling is rolling long thin pieces of papers into various coil shapes, then putting all the...
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Christmas Window Workshops
This year the Christmas window decoration at Can Do Books is going to be a collaborative affair. Last year a few of us made lots and lots and lots of penguins, the year before I made lots of amigurumi...
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Christmas Window Workshop
The photo is the Christmas window at Can Do Books three years ago, my first one. This year the window decorating is going to be a collaborative affair, so I am going to hold two workshops at Can Do...
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Bags of Fluff
A really big bag full of lots of little bags of stuffing. All ready for the next step of the kit making for the Christmas Workshop at Can Do Books.
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