craftgrrl | Oct. 2nd, 2007

Oct. 2nd, 2007

pennyxlane.livejournal.com

hi!
so everyone here is amazingly talented, and i'm inspired to take art classes now!

i love crafting but usually just sort of decorate/make simple stuff...posted are some of the things i've made.

so i LOVE making collages from archie comics, and i am toying with the idea of selling some of them...however, i am a little worried about copyright laws and the sort. i don't really know much about it. would it be illegal for me to sell things such as the album below? (it was given to a friend as a gift)

( are you a betty or a veronica? )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: ub40-kingston town

jesja.livejournal.com

I'm in Minneapolis for work till Thursday, My evenings are pretty free and I was wondering if there were any cool fabric/crafty stores i should check out? I have a rental car so driving shouldn't be an issue.

thanks!!

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Location: holliday inn

loveberry.livejournal.com

So my first craft fair was last weekend and it was a bit of a bust, for everyone, not just me. I think I will try Etsy to see if I can move this stuff before I make any more. At least I am way ahead on holiday gifts! ;) Anyway, onto the pictures...

The patterned squares are the Hoffman challenge fabric from years ago, tons of butterfly wings. I like this so much I am rather pleased it didn't sell. I may keep it until someone I like and who lives close has a baby so I can at least visit it.

( Onto the bags! )

lizmmgood.livejournal.com

Hi every body, this my first bpost.
I looked through the memories and found a few, but I'm looking for some spooky craft ideas. I'm thinking about becoming a 'Big Sister' and I was thinking it would be fun to make something neat for Halloween together, but I was looking for something maybe a little easier for kids you know?
<333 thanks

Current Music: Parkway Drive

exousia.livejournal.com

I did it! For the first time ever my resin casting turned out perfectly. It turns out that using Envirotex lite is MUCH better than castin' craft. I can't wait to go crazy setting cute things into pendants and earrings now :) Woot.

Picture taken on my pj bottoms :P I like to craft in my pjs.

I'm always frustrated at the lack of help there is for resin crafters. I picked up a really good book called The Art of Resin Jewelry. I highly reccomend it for beginners! Let me know if you have any questions :)

(not for selling purposes)
One other thing. Are there any other flickr ladies out there that use their flickr accounts to post crafty pics? I love to read and get inspired from all kinds of crafts! If so I'd love to be a contact. Here's my profile link: http://www.flickr.com/people/formulaexo/

annam42.livejournal.com

I made this activity book for my daughter's second birthday. It's made out of old clothes and some Freecycled fabric, and has pages of clothes-fastener activities with facing pages featuring poems about the fasteners. The pages are each stuffed with two layers of felt I had around the house. I cropped the poems (which I wrote) out the pictures, but I am transcribing them under each page. I'm so happy with how it came out! Good thing too, because it took fo-e-vah to make. Why is everything I do so laborious? I think I must just be a very laborious person. Anyway:

( close them I say! )

pullthestars.livejournal.com

I am attempting to make a Valkryie costume for Halloween.

Alas, I am in need of a breastplate.

this website: http://www.britta.com/costumes/Valkyrie/index.html says that she was able to make it from a plastic torso form from a swimsuit she bought at Costco.

This I have checked for, and alas, they no longer have them in stock.

So!

Any recommendations? I've purchased duct tape with the idea of doing something like the sewing dummy, but that promises to be a long and arduous ordeal. So any other ideas would be fantastic. Thank you :)

dearambellina0.livejournal.com

For Halloween this year I am going to be Daria from the former MTV cartoon.
(If you don't know who I'm talking about click here)

Does anyone know where I could find cheap frames similar to hers? Or how I could make my own?

Thanks!

jilliclecat.livejournal.com

This is my first official post on Craftgrrl, although I've been lurking for a really long time. Apologies in advance if I mess up my lj-cut!

My husband and I spent a few weekends this summer picking berries, and I've made a LOT of jam. 33 jars of jam so far, and I haven't touched the blueberries yet! (I also have recently picked about 50 pounds of apples... yikes!) I've made raspberry, blackberry, boysenberry and marionberry jam. This was my first time making jam, and it turned out really well!

So in the fever of jam making, which took place over the course of a week, I found I was dreaming about jam every night. The last morning of jam making, I woke from a dream about jars of jam with capes and shields on their chests, saving everyone I know from... something. It's a little fuzzy. I suspect Cthulhu. But the important bit is that the mental image stuck with me, and I couldn't resist the opportunity to actually construct something that came to me in a dream.

I present:

SuperJams!

( Using these powers for awesome! )

Current Mood: silly

naiivete.livejournal.com

I've been wanting to post some of my bags here for ages. Today is the day.
I just got around to finishing up some bags & I thought I would post.

My pictures aren't so great, I apologize.

( the rest// )

seeinglife.livejournal.com

Some of what I've been up to in school (biggish pix):

Itajime (clamping and dyeing) on unbleached cotton, folded into kikko (tortoiseshell) pattern and dyed twice, once a rusty orange pumpkin pie color, then a more-subtle-in-person golden yellow. I'm trying to remember how to kill the automatic super contrasty feature of my scanner. Just a section shown, but the whole thing looks basically like this. If you fold consistently, itajime is not a very random technique.
( Geometric pattern )

( So here are some way more random arashi sections! )

Adire alesso (scrunching) and arashi shibori (pole-wrapping) on unbleached muslin. The adire alesso was done first in what's been termed by the class "acid pops green" and then it was pole-wrapped and dyed with black. Various sections shown here, closer to original colors than the kikko one.

And this is yet more unbleached muslin that I intend to dye tomorrow, probably with indigo. The rows of stitching should become mokume shibori (woodgrain pattern) and the outline of the maple leaf is being resisted with ori-nui.
( Shibori to be )

If you're in college, check your catalog for something like "textile design" or "intro to fibers" under the art department at a general school or the fibers department at an art school. You don't have to take a class to do this, though. If you want to learn it on your own (which I did before I took this class), look for this book and I suggest ProMX dyes which we use in school. You can get them and instructions for their use from prochemical.com or dharmatrading.com, and no, I don't get paid to tell you that. :) They both ship quickly and reasonably priced (for the US anyway), and I'm pretty sure they also ship to other countries but can't vouch for reasonable pricing there. Shame how many companies are great about domestic shipping but charge way more than necessary for international, isn't it?

ms-electrolux.livejournal.com

Hi, I'm kind've new to this community, I just got my Ravelry invite and I would love to have some friends there!!!

I'm just electrolux........Thanks grrls :)

x-posted to Punk Knitters, 20s Knitters and other places I think.

Current Mood: ecstatic

morganx4xlyfe.livejournal.com

hey guys, i just joined and i need some tips. Homecoming is Saturday so thursday a bunch of us girls are getting together and making t-shirts that are along the lines of Seniors 2008. My school colors are red, blue and white, any ideas!?

xjigglypuffx.livejournal.com

Hey guys; sorry to bother you all with these type of questions....

But I want to start making bath/beauty stuff & this place HERE has very good prices compared to everywhere else I have found and basically everything I need I can order from them. I was just wondering if any of you all have ever ordered from this [good/bad?!].. Sorry again...I don't have any pictures yet... =o\