I just finished up some ribbon embroidery. This was one of the plaid ribbon embroidery kits.
I like the plaid kits alot. They are great for a type of embroidery that I’ve never done before. It contained instructions and all the stuff that I needed to finish up my project.
I saw a posting for embroidery arm rest cover on craft link. Since I’ve been doing a fair amount of embroider recently I decided I would put one of these together.
I’ve been using my caddy for about a week now and I’m really enjoying it.
I think my favorite features are the little cup that acts as a trash can (This has been especially useful since I’ve been doing some felt applique and in the past I’ve ended up with little bits of felt all over the place) and that my little pointy, sharp scissors have some where to go and don’t end up sliding off of the couch and jabbing me in the leg. Hurray!!!
I’ve also include some large pockets on the back side of the caddy.
But despite all my new pockets it still hasn’t really taken a dent out of the crafting explosion that has happened around my chair.
Now I’m not saying that I have a problem with my crafting maybe getting a little out of control. I think my problem is not getting stuff done quickly enough…or more likely starting more projects without finishing all the ones that are half done.
So I tried my hand at silk screening a little bit ago. I put together my screen the hard way — I traced the image and then filled in the negative space with screen filler. For my first silk screening I decided to make an AIR shirt (art is resistance). This is part of the Year Zero project by Nine Inch Nails. Its a relatively simple design and made an excellent first project for me.
I started by printing out the AIR flag and traced it on to my silk screen.
Then I filled in the screen completely with the screen filler.
After the screen was completely dry I printed my shirt.
