There is no end to those little bits!!!!!!!!!! I try and use them but they are still there, only now, smaller!!!!!!!!

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Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Colourful creation, Creative crafting, Decorative wall 'art', Felt applique, Felt offcut solution, New life to bits and bobs, Recycling old materials, Wall plaques

Using up those little bits!

I really do seem to be in sewing overdrive at the moment I am trying to recycle little bits and bobs that many others would have thrown away when they were at least double the size. I really do hoard, though you never know when something might come in handy for a future project (well that’s my excuse) These little wall pictures have been created from tiny left over pieces of felt and hand sewn onto fragments of tapestry backing I had ”lying” about in one of my many ‘save and see’ boxes. I came across a couple of salvaged wooden frames in another ‘save and see’ bag whilst ”””’TIDYING UP”””” Oh My! The tidying up went right out of the window I am now somewhere underneath the most humongous pile of felt offcuts at the moment – even I am feeling the urge to get the hoover tools and suck the mess off the conservatory table, goodness knows what my husband thinks when he comes home each night from work – Thankfully he never says anything about the state of ”’MY work space”’ 

One day I might have a clear table and empty ‘save and see’ boxes but I won’t hold my breath!

Below are the other colour variations to this theme

 

Purple version

Green version (oops forgot to photograph this before I had framed and taped the back up so there is some reflection on the image)

 

Blue version

 

 

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Handmade and quilted Giant Christmas Stockings

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Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Christmas decorations, Christmas stockings, Colourful creation, Cotton fabrics, Creative crafting, Giant Christmas stockings, Patchwork and quilting, Traditional stockings

Handmade and quilted Giant Christmas Stockings

Having got rid of the need to make any more gingerbread guy themed crafty creations. I set about with this pair of giant Christmas stockings, after cutting out all the fabric ready for construction and adding a layer of synthetic wadding, I was ready to start hand quilting over the entire front and back of each one. I added a coordinating cotton fabric hanging loop and hand twisted a cord bow for each front centre.

Showing the reverse side of hand quilting

All they need now is a new owner to fill them year after year, OR, better still, get someone you love to fill them for YOU!  🙂

Abstract – ‘Local Scene’ – Acrylic coloured Abstract

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Abstractly coloured

This painting of a Local Scene is of a different angle to another post I have made in Landscapes, an oil painting called ‘Hidden Harwood’. The steps and tree in the centre of the picture are indeed the same. This is the only painting I have ever used acrylics for! Whilst the overall picture is okay, it is not the mediums I would have chosen. The church hall sat on the hill is where I meet with other artists. Their idea was for us all to paint the same scene as vividly as possible – in acrylics, which is what the majority there work in. It has got to be the fastest painting I have ever done, from initial sketch to completion in twenty minutes. Basically painted faster than the paint could dry!!!