Trying out how to make thread wax. It's a fun experiment and a great way to strengthen your thread!
My father commissioned a cake for my Grandpa's 89th birthday, requesting it look like a beagle with white, black and brown coloring. My Gran...
RECIPE: Popcorn Seasoning Kit, a post from the blog Adventures In Making, written by Rachel Beyer on Bloglovin’
I’ve had quite a few friends ask me about making masks, so am putting together what I have discovered into this one blog post for easy reference. As many of you know, Melbourne is currently …
Recently I was inspired to try making another English saddle. I don't build saddles very often... I've mentioned before that I find them intimidating, but at the same time it's something I want to do more often and want to get better at, and like so many other things I'm into, I won't get better…
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I made an Elizabethan ruff! And it turned out really well (not perfect, but really well). And I am extremely pleased with myself. And it’s really, really close to perfectly historically accurate! Making a ruff turned out to be a lot harder than I thought it would be simply because there is so much rubbish information about ruffs on the internet. (Granted, there is rubbish information in books too – Tudor Tailor doesn’t do a good job of making it clear when they are using a historically accurate method and when they use a theatre one, for example, and even Saint Janet got things wrong on occasion. So I like to read EVERYTHING and then collate all the evidence in the hopes of arriving at something at least reasonably plausible.) So I had to weed out all the advice about 1) cutting yourself a really long strip entirely on the selvedge (this immediately read wrong to me because it’s hugely wasteful of fabric, and fabric wastage is rarely historically accurate. Plus the grain will be …
Yes, another thrill-packed day in the adventurous life of a dulcimer maker.
So excited to write about this one - really, I cannot tell you how much.......Where to begin....at the very beginning, I suppose. Last year, when I was finishing up my City & Guilds course, I was doing some research on 'reverse appliqué' and confess I was rather unenthusiastic about this part of the module. That was, until I came across 'Alabama Chanin'. It opened up a whole new world to me and oh boy...it is just totally fabulous.
Dorestad: Old Norse Reproduction Handmade Leather Shoe by Barefoot Cordwainer on Etsy A while ago, while browsing Etsy.com , I di...
Please let me note, this blog isn't going to be all about cloth diapers and babies.. That said it is a huge part of my life right now, and h...
What's SHE Up To Now Day 1679? Confidence And Life? Drop in to get the real scoop--the good, the bad, the ugly, the truth (well my truth anyway). https://fac...
A creative stamping journey in my card making adventures!
As you may have noticed if you've been following my blog for any length of time, I love Alice in Wonderland. In fact, my wedding was Alic...
An evidence-based model for decoding failure with the ROI of errors dependent on five key factors.
Galeriebeitrag North American B-70 Valkyrie von Lindberg, ein Modell gebaut von Thomas Brückelt in 1:180.
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