What can I do next.............................

[ed_blackadder_1]

I have tried my hand at card making and intend to carry on, I have made some decorations and calenders.  I have made two crochet rugs for the chairs for the dogs to sleep on and I have made some new friends.

I am looking for another challenge now to take on,

Not sewing, nothing to do with sewing or knitting I have neither the inclination or patience for them.

Something crafty, but not something that will take days to do.

This is your challenge should you wish to undertake it.....................................

[stan3502]

I loved the "Harry Potter" cushions you made

[****merlin*****]

VERY easy

you need a latch tool which is about £1.50

some hessian (again very cheap)

that one is a a kit

but i now make rag rugs and i much prefer that

i use old t shirts

they give the best effect

i take the patterned/picture fronts and make them into quilts

so they have all their favourite outgrown t shirts in a quilt

and then the sleeves and back i make into rugs

they are really  warm underfoot and easy to lift and lay and do a bit each night

[ed_blackadder_1]

No seriously Merling keep them coming they are wonderful so many ideas if I can't find something out of that lot it is a bad job.

[fluffypenquin]

Thanks Merlin - I quite fancy the idea of making a rug - I need to find something to do that doesn't require a great amount of talent.  Thanks x

[****merlin*****]

i had to make another set for other daughter at christmas there

[****merlin*****]

i made her this to hang up

its the griffindor tie and the deathly hallows necklace

[stan3502]

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@****merlin***** wrote:

i had to make another set for other daughter at christmas there

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Just brilliant

[****merlin*****]

rugs are very easy fluffy

i learned from a youtube vid

i shall go see if i can find it

i watched her do it 3 times, just 3  x 2 second bits

and you are good enough to go

[****merlin*****]

this is it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY3z7ltdbOE

same way to make this or rag rugs

[cookiecookuk]

instead of clay for modelling use salt dough it cooks in the oven then you paint and varnish.

these are all made out of salt dough

[****merlin*****]

i didnt make these, they were made for me and sit under a glass dome in the kitchen

but also made from clay

[captainbovine]

I fancy the gingerbread stuff and the little wooden signs, the decorations.

I love the soaps, I'd buy them, great little gifts those.

Merlin how come you never put these things on MDCC?

[****merlin*****]

i just faff along Capt 

seldom is anything planned

it just happens 

and often starts out as something else

can you see an MDCC listing?

Buy this, i dont know what it will eventually be, but its starting out as soap, it could be a t shirt, a christmas bauble or a jar of chutney or even a rug  

[bitsnknots]

I think that Merlin's makes are brilliant.  I think that you could make a packet if you started to sell them Merlin.

[****merlin*****]

selling means pressure

i potter around making all sorts of things

if it goes wrong, well, its only me that is let down

[fluffypenquin]

Hi Merlin - sorry I had signed off earlier and have just come back on and seen your posts - many thanks for the video clip - it looks fairly easy, I.m quite tempted to have a go.  Thanks again x

BTW we went to the races on Boxing Day and there was a horse called Merlin - so I just had to back it, and it was the only winner that I got all afternoon :).  Mind you we only place the minimum bet, so I didn't become a millionaire, but it was nice that you were responsible for my one and only win 🙂

[****merlin*****]

how lovely!

you can get kits on here

look for ones at auction if you are buying one

if not

a latch hook tool and some hessian

and beg for old t shirts

cut into strips

and you are away

if you go down that route

remember to leave a border to turn when you have finished

its very addictive!!

[fluffypenquin]

Hi - I've just been looking at them on here and I think I had better try a kit first until I get the right idea - at least that way the fabric will be all cut to the right length etc and I will have a pattern to follow.  I'm quite eager to give it a go - thanks again 🙂

[****merlin*****]

when you buy a kit you get wee bales of wool

cut into nice strips a few inches long

when you make your own they are all sorts of widths

t shirt material stretches out nicely and it does all look the same eventually

its terribly forgiving

get a pattern that isnt awfully busy

i have a door sized santa coming out if a chimney (brickwork/presents/bows etc)

hmph

it was supposed to be finished before christmas

i left it

it wasnt as relaxing 

[fluffypenquin]

Thanks for the advice - I think something fairly plain and simple to begin with - I really do not possess any talent or skills 🙂