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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 12, 2014 8:45:00 GMT
We can "cyber over" Reiki, just let me know when, I actually did my BSc in Complementary Therapies, focusing mainly of energy work, chakra and ancient Chinese 5 element philosophy activated with reflexolgy and hands on reiki and therapeutic touch - I don't practice very much these days, but an old lady in my village asked for a treatment last week, I didn't want any money from her but came away with a large bag of apples :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 12, 2014 8:05:25 GMT
this is so important, thank you Marilyn for hearing the cries for help, I thought I was marketing by having a fb site, a wordpress blog, a twitter account, an unused pinterest and I'm sure there are a few more things out there I've forgotten about - but all I've really got is a lot of passwords to remember, oh and an ETSY shop, but nothing sold so I don't use it.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 12, 2014 8:00:57 GMT
This is really interesting, I'm not a spinner either but last year I was offered a fleece - no idea what to do with a fleece so I declined it (but it is waiting for me apparently) I have no idea how to clean it, debug it or what to do with the end result, even if I ever got as far as cleaning it. I spoke to a friend who suggested I ask and Old Baba in a village (the old Baba's are the grannies of the village, even tho' I have 3 grandchildren I don't count as I'm not old enough!!) anyway I diverse, these old Baba's are the ones with the spinning skills.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 11, 2014 12:50:41 GMT
I love both the pods Teri, and I paricularly love how you have opened up shapes to reveal layers below, then stitched around the shapes. I've been trying out that technique on a pod, then I got completely distracted and today I'm making a large pod from the fibres I dyed, it's sitting over the fire drying, I had to put a bag of sand in the bottom to keep a more rounded bottom - hopefully tomorrow the fun can begin with embellishing it.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 11, 2014 11:23:40 GMT
nothing worse than back pain, if we lived closer I'd come over and give you a treatment of reiki and reflexology it can work wonders :-) but failing that I'll send you some healing reiki if you would like :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 11, 2014 6:18:18 GMT
Julie I also love your work, the red sunset with the light catching the roof of the house is gorgeous, where do you live? because the little cottage looking out to sea with the mountains in the background reminds me of Scotland, I love the energy in your work the green curly piece with colours radiating up into it - so pretty :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 11, 2014 5:53:53 GMT
that spiders web looks tricky, love all the work on this :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 10, 2014 16:08:12 GMT
it doesn't felt, it's a great method :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 10, 2014 8:42:02 GMT
Your layered work is fabby, I like how you've embellished and attached the leaf skeletons too, and the ideas about wood glue (another new tool in the box), I use PVA but it can be a bit stiff to stitch through. Is this another challenge 'layered work' - I do hope so as I need a kick start again :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 10, 2014 8:03:08 GMT
I love these beads, they have so much going on in them. I have had a go at felt and thread beads then made them up into necklaces, never used tyvex for beads only as others have said painted it and heated it then stitched it on other work. I so agree making beads is so fiddly and sticky but great fun and everyone is different.
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 10, 2014 7:51:27 GMT
he is gorgeous, I adore sloths and you are creative putting him in a cup - lovely needle felting :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 9, 2014 18:29:26 GMT
Leonor, your question about the temp, there was nothing scientific about this process, I put a metal cake tin in a large saucepan, a metal colander on top of that, got the water to boiling point and stuck in the wrapped fibres, a whole pile of them and just steamed it for 1/2 hour and hey presto this was the result. I did more today with the same results using darker colours. I don't have any of the proper equipment and I've never dyed before but I love how the silk fibres are glowing like jewels - I'm calling it beginners luck. I didn't even have rubber gloves so my hands are a lovely shade of black, purple and green. Thank you for the lovely comments, I keep looking at all these goodies wondering what I am going to do with them - I need the next challenge :-)
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 9, 2014 8:51:52 GMT
last picture I promise, I just had to have a go at layering up the various fibres, trying to get inspiration for a piece of work
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 9, 2014 7:56:47 GMT
as well as doing other colours in wool, I dyed some silk tops, I just love the effects on the silk tops I think I've been bitten by the dyeing bug, and I'm going to do some more today, I want to try out black on the silk rods
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Post by carole aka craftywoman on Mar 9, 2014 7:52:36 GMT
all my dyeing is am experiment, as I've never done this before, so in the heart of the experiment I used merino and then harsher fleece (sheep's wool) for a red, orange and yellow piece and I think the merino took the dye in a much more vibrant way. the Merino is on the left.
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