Crafty Things Make A Post

[jeshyr]

Idea #1: Small red heart-shaped bag, zipped around the edge similar to the Purlbee heart shaped pouch tutorial except I was thinking I'd make them from red felt and embroider them. Mine will also be smaller and the "handle" section will be a small loop so they can be attached to something else. This is what I wanted the red zipper for.

Idea #2: Pants! I saw these super funky black cord pants on Etsy while looking for something else and then later that night had a brainwave. I have some pairs of lovely wonderful comfy black jeans which are just a bit too narrow for me. I also have a glorious wonderful colourful quilt made by my aunty many years ago, and it's so old it's falling apart. I can split the outside side seams on the black jeans and add a strip made of patches from the quilt fabric. Bingo: New use for quilt, newly comfy jeans. Very enthused by this idea.

And a poll ... once I had the pants idea I thought I'd sit down and cut some of the fabric out to use for that so I went to find my seam ripper.... and I can't. My seam rippers disappear with frightening regularity ... somewhere in my house there is a secret seam ripper stash with twenty of those little guys all gloating about getting out of work!

I have this idea that every regular crafter has at least one thing they regularly lose ... what's yours?

Poll #8980 What Craft Tool Do You Lose?

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seam ripper
10 (45.5%)

knitting needles
1 (4.5%)

crochet hooks
3 (13.6%)

scissors
15 (68.2%)

sewing needles
11 (50.0%)

entire project! It takes talent...
6 (27.3%)

I never lose anything, I'm totally 100% organised!
0 (0.0%)

I lose something else which I will tell you about in the comments
11 (50.0%)

TICKYBOX
11 (50.0%)

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[jeshyr]

Well, I was brought up by hippies :)

How long since you moved? I find it hard to understand people who cart around boxes of stuff that isn't unpacked, being an anti-packrat and all!! I seem to have lost an entire shopping bag full of leather craft stuff though :/ Was looking for it this week and there's no hint of it anywhere ... frustrating!!

[acelightning]

and i was a hippie :-D

the last move was about six years ago, but there were complications. first, we had to move in a tremendous hurry, so we just stuffed everything into boxes at random. i still haven't found which box contains some of my dishes! furthermore, we had a storage locker. when my father died and we cleaned out the house, i couldn't bear to look at things enough to sort them, so all of the stuff from my parents' house got boxed up and put into the storage locker. about a year after we moved here, we could no longer afford the rental on the storage locker, so all those boxes got brought to the house... and i still don't relish the thought of going through everything. thirdly, until recently, i didn't have the physical stamina to move boxes and stuff around. (i'm mildly amazed at how much more endurance i have now that i'm not anemic from internal bleeding.) i'm still basically lazy, though :-(

[jeshyr]

I always forget you're an AULD PHART! *worships* :)

I am glad you have some stamina now and yes, I see your moving issues have been epic! I am a big fan of the "one box at a time" technique but I'm known to be a weird mutant (see "anti-packrat" in the dictionary :)).

LOVE YOU!

[acelightning]

yup, i'm an old hippie. i wonder whether sheramil still has the "goth tie-dye" t-shirt i made him - brown, black (actually a very dark grey, because pure black is almost impossible to get with home dyes), very dark green, very dark blue, very dark red, very dark purple. that was fun to make!

*GREAT BIG HUGS*