Keeping things above board.

[ilea.livejournal.com]

So we've got someone taking craftgrrl posts, posting them to another community (ru_concept) and then informing the poster that it was posted over there.

Now I've told the user that they need to ask first. If your stuff ends up over there and you don't want it to please let me know. I'll personally wave the ban hammer in their general direction.

Now for the other scrapists in the audience... It's not nice to take someones pics/posts without permission and post them somewhere else. (If you have to show someone the post...use a link.) If I find anyone else doing it I will ban first and ask questions later.

Now back to your regularly scheduled craft posts.

itchy scarf!

[pamelalabella.livejournal.com]

Hi guys.. No pics this time..but sOON!!
I just finished a lovely scarflette as a gift for christmas..and it's so pretty I dont want it to just go to waste..but its a little itchy! can i just line it with something soft?? or does that even work..

Geisha Lunch Bag

[laciebug.livejournal.com]

I moved into my own art studio last week.. got all my goodies put away and sorted. I decided I wanted my first project to be something functional for myself.. I was inspired by a hat I made last year (that someone somewhere loves I'm sure).. I didn't want a hat, I wanted something I could use everyday and pet the fabric..

here's my lunch bag: http://tinyurl.com/5blopy

here's the inspiration: http://tinyurl.com/5dfuny

i <3 crafting!
Lacie

Christmas Ornaments

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Cellphone charm and 2 Family Guy/Simpsons paintings.

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Sewing Machine Help *again*

[trenthamfamily.livejournal.com]

I had made that post a while ago about my sewing machine issues so I ended up having it tuned up. Paid $67 for the darn tune up only to use it last night and now there is a weird new issue.

The bobbin, in the bobbin casing, is threaded correctly, against the direction of the casing as the instruction manual and everyone in the world has told me. Everything else is correct. He redid the tension and told me to leave it alone.

I started to use the machine and while sewing the thread on the bobbin (I need to try to explain this correctly without being confusing) still stays through the machine as if I'm still working but that little slot that you slip the thread through, I think it's the bobbin tension, it's slipping out of there. It's like I popped in the bobbin without putting in the thread in the tension slot of the bobbin casing.

Does that make any sense at all?

It keeps doing that. Coming out of the slot on the casing meaning there is no tension on the underside of the fabric and it bunches up and screws everything up. I have to unload the bobbin, rethread it into the bobbin case and back through the machine again.

I've used different bobbins (the default one and the new ones I got that are identical to it) and I've rethreaded to my hearts content.

The guy that tuned the machine said that this will happen, just watch out for it. I'm not going fast, I'm using a medium zig zag stitching. He said to make the stitching tighter and it should help but that it just happens.

Does it really? I've never heard of problems just being that way before. I thought you can just stick in the thread and sew something without having so many issues.

where to get fabric?

[journalface.livejournal.com]

i bought this fabric a while back to make this headband. i want to make another one but can't remember for the life of me where i got the fabric. i am fairly certain it was a fat quarter, but i don't know the maker. can anyone help out?

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[roanna.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad i randomly came across some crafty communities (this one included!) because i've felt far craftier and inspired enough to get busy myself for the first time in ages.

I made a bunch of dangle keyrings with polymer clay goodies and beads, i'm quite proud of these, though i know i've seen far better examples!

( Finally got some use out of the polymer clay. )

( Also painted up my own wrapping paper. )

Not overly spectacular, but kept me busy enough to feel proud to post. ^_^

Tons of necklaces

[sadisticseraph.livejournal.com]

I've been a lurker for far too long and I almost never have time to post the stuff I make.
So prepare yourself for a jewelery deluge.
( Click here for nifty wearable goodness )

Week Off = Lots of Sewing

[lileepers.livejournal.com]

I recently took a week off, and had a craft filled week :D
It included a few days of sewing and picture taking, so I thought I would share my accomplishments.

7 Bags in 23 pictures below the cut

( Skulls, Owls, Pirate Bags & Patches )

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[pergyleneism.livejournal.com]

i made all these plushes for our inkmas party, oink awardees
machine and hand sewn, made from leftover textiles,
fiberfill for the fillings and two plastic beads for the eyes



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Crafts of Christmas Past

[thyme-rune.livejournal.com]

A mask for my Dad and a Sparkly Thing for my parents...



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Here be dragon II.

[ldhenson.livejournal.com]

My newest plush dragon, revisiting a dragon design I did last year.




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