Wintery Snowflake Pillows

[lindapendant.livejournal.com]

I sewed these pillow covers over the weekend, stitching the snowflakes on by hand while watching TV and wow, hand stitching takes forever.



I've put a tutorial here for those who are interested.

upcycled spoon rings and pendants

[metalsmitten.livejournal.com]

S'more upcycled spoons turned into rings and pendants :) I been on a bit of a moonstone kick recently.




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Help please! - Metallic paints & Acryllic

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

Very nervous first poster here - I've offered advice before (I tend to crochet like mad) and I've lurked for ages, but this is my very first post.

I'm trying to replicate a part of a mirror frame that long ago, was painted with some sort of gold paint and then with I think are acrylic paints. But it was hung in a bathroom for years and now it's developed rust spots and several nasty if small cracks. I've got no idea what the original gold paint was.

My question is - how does Rustoleum indoor/outdoor metallic paint work with acrylics painted on top? Would a Rustoleum sealant work fine coated over said acrylics? Or would another one be even better? Has anybody experimented with this combo before? At this point I've already hit a snag with the material I'm painting soaking up the paint like a sponge, and I'm getting worried about the deadline (thanksgiving). Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Edit: Just realized I should elaborate a little more on what this mirror looks like. Not only is the base paint this metallic gold that's gone rusty, the original artist had painted beautiful butterflies, branches, bamboo stalks, and a lattice pattern on this mirror frame. And now everything's got rust spots rising up through the paint and discoloring things.

When does it become 'your' pattern?

[tawg.livejournal.com]

A while back there was a really interesting discussion here about selling embroidery pieces and the legality of using someone else's pattern, and it got me thinking.

I've recently taken up knitting again, and I've been making little toy mice from a pattern that I got out of a magazine (the magazine in turn got it from the book 'Knitted Toy Tales' by Laura Long). I've made a few tiny changes to the pattern, and I was wondering when you feel that a pattern becomes 'yours', if ever?

Tutus!

[ilea.livejournal.com]

I made parts of my girls halloween costumes. They were fairies.



I made the tutus using this tutorial. I used ribbon for the waist and they tie on. I then added novelty yarn to make it more fae-tastic and sewed fake flowers to the front.




Then I made novelty yarn hair falls attached to clips and glued fake flowers to them.