Monday, February 25, 2013

Yarn Ampersand

I know ampersands are a bit in at the moment, but I wanted to do a yarn covered something. I couldn’t really figure out a letter I’d want to look at and an ampersand seemed nicely ambiguous.

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The pictures don’t really show the true colour, which is a much deeper mint.

A mini-tutorial:

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I first free-handed the shape onto paper and then traced it onto cardboard.

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I covered the ends and the overlapping parts with yarn first and taped it in place. Then I just started to wrap the yarn over the other parts and took care to cover all the tape and endings.

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From the front.

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And here is the back. You could make it equally petty on both sides, but I didn’t think that necessary. I’ll either hang it up on the wall or put it in the bookcase. And hope no-one picks it up…

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The wrapping isn’t perfect, but I don’t mind handmade things to look handmade.

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It worked better than I thought and I’m very happy with it!

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Painted Clay Flower Pots

I had these basic terracotta clay pots for flowers. I’m not really into orange so I decided to paint them.

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I spray painted the insides bright neon pink and painted the outsides with the same grey paint I used in the kitchen.

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I think it looks pretty nice. Muted with a pop of colour.

I’ve used them for a while now, hence the muddy plates.

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A very fast and easy project.

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