After a few days of quilling, I have moved on to creating my own designs. I feel so free to be self-reliant! Depending on someone’s patterns can be stressful — finding them, then deciding to print out the page or take notes or quill near the computer, etc. At first, I need to pattern to…
We can’t get real snowflakes, so we are quilling snowflakes. My 7 year old really likes it. Actually, everyone who has tried it, likes it. Here you can see “I” of GAIN and some of the snowflakes. The snowflakes are light blue, and I have a no-flash photo here. That means that the contrast and…
A new year, a new craft! — quilling, or paper filigree, was started tonight for the first time in this family. “A” of GAIN and I spent a small amount of time making lovely little things out of paper. (Photos are taken against my pant leg in case you are wondering.) Quilling came to my…
I knit my sister and sister-in-law each her own handmade dishcloth/potholder. One was a duplicate of the dishcloth I wrote about back in 2007. Mine has served me very well in it’s once a week rotation. I also made a solid white dishcloth. Since its color is solid, it shows a pattern very nicely. In…
The finished sweater and some scarves — Mr. GAIN‘s cousin was a knit-a-holic for a while, and produced scarves and soap socks, complete with soap, for all her cousins and cousins-in-law this year. She kicked some serious smelting butt and made us proud.