Yes, I know it's been a hot minute since my last post. Cut me some slack, I've been just a tad bit busy with commencement, getting my home office area ready for a more permanent situation, and of course, crafting.
50 for fifty
One of my 50 for fifty goals was to pick up plastic canvas crafts again. When I moved to Colorado, I started completely over with my craft supplies (except my sewing machine and some of my books). One that fell by the wayside was plastic canvas. To be honest, I wasn't even sure that craft stores sold plastic canvas anymore (I can't get supplies or patterns for other crafts I used to do). Fortunately both Hobby-Lobby and Wal-Mart carry plastic canvas, so I purchased a package of seven-count canvas and some yarn (those blankets and baby booties wiped me out).
The first thing I made was a plastic canvas version of this crochet pattern for a boutique-style tissue box cover: http://www.tissueboxbakery.com/2013/11/29/free-pattern-yellow-cake-with-chocolate-frosting-red-heart-soft-deborah-norville-everyday-worsted/. I made it as a present for a friend who likes to bake. I made two unsuccessful attempts at this pattern. Despite changing hook sizes and stitch counts, I could not get this pattern to come out right, so I decided to adapt it to plastic canvas.
I did use the instructions from the crochet pattern to make the piped frosting. If I make this again, the only thing I would do differently is not use hot glue to attach the sprinkles and use tweezers to place them more accurately. Other than that, I really enjoyed making this birthday present.
Well, the bug has bitten, so I made a couple of covers for myself.
I used the stitch counts from a plastic canvas pattern in a needlework book in my stash (the pattern was ugly, but the stitch counts helped). I found the tutorial for the crochet roses on YouTube:
I really enjoyed these and plan to make other projects in the future.
Here are some other projects I've finished since my last post:
Speaking of torn canvases...(yes it's another saga)
I'm a big fan of the Moriah Elizabeth YouTube channel. If you've never seen it, It's a fun crafting channel. She has a series called "Art Things to Do When Bored." One of the suggestions is to re-do an old art project. Enter exhibit A:
I painted this at Paintology 101 back in 2017. There's not much to dislike about this painting except the front wheel that looks like it met a telephone pole. I wanted to try redoing it using a compass to draw a properly round wheel. Although a compass was required for school, I never learned to use one correctly. So why not learn now? I considered painting over the original, but thought it would be too complicated. So, I made a new one from scratch.
The wheel turned out much better than the first one and I was happy with it...until I framed it, put it in the car to take to someone, took it out of the car only to realize that it had mysteriously gotten torn on something.
So, I went back to my original idea to paint over the old painting...which actually worked.
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