couple of budgies

At last, I finished the budgies today. One was already finished and the other one "just" needed sewing together and then, I made them a swing, too.

Unfortunately, they kept falling backwards, so I had to use black thread and that is visible. I wish I knew another way of securing them, because this is not so nice.

But....I have them hanging under the big lamp in the livingroom, so the background is not one light color, so where they are now, you can't really tell that I used black thread. ;-)

Hallowe'en is coming!

Eventhough, Hallowe'en is not a big thing in the Netherlands (yet?)(unfortunately, if you ask me), I've started a cute Hallowe'en-project:






The cat and the witch-hat will be in black felt.


I'm going to make a broom, using a real stick and some straw, so mine will not be a kitchen-witch, but it will still be cute, don't you think? ;-)

budgie

Here is a pic of my crocheted budgie. I'm making her a friend, but thought, I would put this pic on my blog, already.

cloth dolls

Recently, I found a new craft: making cloth dolls. I've made 3 so far, all patterns by De Powell, whose site can be found here:
http://www.bowls-n-annies.com/


She has lots of great (E-)patterns and wonderful doll-hair, too. Her site is really worth visiting.

Here are pics of my dolls:

My crafts

In the beginning of 2006, I started crochet and a little knitting and only recently did I start sewing stuff.

It's a great hobby and I can highly recommend it. ;-) I've never been into crafts at all (I'm a huge bookworm), so if I can do this, everyone can; really!

Here is a link with the stuff, I've made so far:
http://picasaweb.google.com/e.willemstijn/MyCrochetCreations

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