What Have You All Made Recently?

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Title says it all really.
Tell me about the lovely things you have been making,any craft. Pictures/Ravelry links would be great.
I like to crochet but I've found myself in a bit of a rut and want to be inspired and find some motivation to make something, even if its a totally different craft.

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Sewcrafty - that's a fab tea cosy, esp the hand empbroidery. Your friend will be thrilled to bits.

Here's my latest soaps on flickr - the turqoise, pink and lemon. I cut them yesterday but no pics of them yet. The tourqiose is my 2nd attempt and it much more vivid than the 1st, but that's the nature of handmade stuff, nothing is ever the same thing twice.

I did also make what I hoped was an orange soap, turned out the colour of raw chicken fillets. Bluergh. I won;t be showing them off in a hurry lol

www.flickr.com/photos/misspollysoap/

Polly, your soaps look lovely. Where do you sell them? The pink grapefruit one sounds delish.

A button necklace.

Thanks DillyTante (what a fab name). I sell mainy at craft fairs, which I love when they are busy, and I have a few soaps on Folksy. I don;t do so well there, only sold a few. These coloured soaps are new and I hope to take them into shops in a few weeks to see if they wold like to stock them, but I'm a scaredy cat and will probably chicken out.
I have other soaps on my website which will, fingers crossed, be on NOTHS as soon as i get decent photos done. Watch this space.

On thursday I made a fabric wine bag to put the bottle of wine in that DS was going to give to his teacher.

I also made two little shoulder bags from the Cath Kidstone Sew! book, one for me and one for a little girl for her birthday. It was fun following a pattern for a change, instead of following the patterns in my head

SewCrafty I love love love your teapot, I want to make one too now! Do you mind if I steal your idea?

toomuchpizza you have inspired me to make a buttercup bag now too. I have been meaning to try out that pattern for years.

Hello am loving all the things made and the photos, they all look fabulous (I am very jealous of Coldcomforts advent calendars and Latteladys knitted/cotton dresses).

In the last few weeks I have made a dress for my DD and a spongebob squarepants cake, both of which are on my profile. Currently trying to make dungarees for my 9 month DD as I love toddlers in dungarees but think most bought ones are too plain however having a bit of a diaster at mo

My favourite website at the moment is tons of fantastic ideas and easy patterns

I made two of those tea cosies for the same lady, plus I'm making one for my folksy website/craft stalls. She also wants a red and white checked one, so I'm making a 2nd one of those too, only appliqued, not embroidery on that one. Then it's onto cushion covers, roman blinds and bean bags.

Just gone thru all the posts/blogs again, the grufflo bag and dragon bag are amazing and I LOVE the ice-cream t-shirt. I now want to make an oilcloth prism bag but not sure my (ancient I'm pretty sure it's older than me) machine would cope with oilcloth.

I want ot see the ice cream t shirt, just looked through all the posts here but can't find it!

I just made a customised tortoise t-shirt with DS, using freezer paper, here

Had it bookedmarked as thinking about copying it

Have you an ebay link for the freezer paper?

Sorry that was the link to the ice-cream t-shirt.

Is the general consensus that primark is the cheapest place for t-shirts?

Thanks for the ice cream t shirt link! Lovely.

I wanted plain t shirts, and primark had their packs of 2 plain one for boys reduced in the sale to £2, so that's £1 per t shirt. Ok the colours were basic, black, white and grey, but that was ok for me.

I know Sports Direct often have huge sales on their t shirts too, and sometimes have plain ones among them, I have bought a few there for £3 each.

That;s probably the cheapest you'll get them new, but charity shops, jumble sales etc are probably good places to look on the offchance too.

I got the freezer paper from the crafty quilter on Ebay

I love the line on that Ebay listing that says "Freezer paper can also be used for wrapping food to go in the freezer." :o

I've just crocheted a cup for me and a golden snitch for a friend. I didn't take a picture of the snitch :(

Yeah that made me laugh too soupy!

Ask your friend to take a photo of the snitch if you can?

I just made DP a washbag using an old terry nappy here. I'm still too scared to try sewing with oilcloth so this is what I did instead.

and, what is a snitch?

Golden Snitch - Harry Potter/Quidditch ball, gold with little wings (well, yellow when it's made out of wool!)

let's pretend mine looked exactly like the pattern

Aaah. It looks very cute! Wich I could crochet. Is it an expensive hobby? Yarm seems so pricey.

I'm only using cheap yarn. I seem to have gravitate towards doing little things like keyrkngs so the cost isn't really an issue. I also picked up a couple of balls of yarn at a car boot sale at the weekend and hope to find more cast off amounts at others.

That's a great little site soupy.
OMDB, like fabric, yarn is more expensive the better quality it is. But you soon learn which are the better cheaper ones you can get away with.

I find fabric really expensive. Have you bought some oil cloth recently? I'd like to get some to make a cover for my kindle and a bag to put DD's water cup in. Is it difficult to sew with? I've just looked at your recent bag. You make it look so easy! I bet you have made a bag before I've even cut my fabric and threaded my machine!

Ah that makes sense.

I guess fabric can be expensive too, but you learn how to get away with not spending a lot, finding bargains and buying second hand.

Oh goodness bumperlicious, I don't buy oilcloth for sewing with, firstly it is really expensive and secondly I don't have a teflon foot to sew it with.

I have some crochet hooks from a charity shop, just never tried crochet yet. Maybe I should pluck up the courage!

Have a look at some of the crochet threads and people have good recommendations for books to learn from.

If not oilcloth, can you buy that waterproof fabric that line wash bags? What is is called?

I love all your projects anyway. How did you learn to be so good on a machine? Was it just practice?

"If not oilcloth, can you buy that waterproof fabric that line wash bags? What is is called?"

Cheap shower curtain? :o

Ah, good idea. Poundland for me then!