Be Excellent To Each Other

Fab. How does March sound for all you guys? A nice spring wedding!

46" Chest
34" waist
34" leg
thigh are 25" each

I think..

I have made a thing!

I'm very proud of the thing, it's the first time i've done a thing like it and the thing has come out very well, if I do say so myself.
Unfortunately I can't tell you about the thing yet, or show you a picture, as it's an anniversary present for the mrs, and she occasionally comes on here. <waves to Mrs T>
We went with the US and it's a paper theme for us for the 1st anniversary.

I shall post a pic as soon as Mrs T has seen it, I expect it won't be too long, she is unable to resist gift temptation, so I doubt it will stay ungiven for long, even though our anniversary isn't for another 6 weeks or so...

Actually I can tell her to just not look in this thread

This is the thing I made:




All made from paper (apart from a wire in the middle of the stem, and some copper spray paint. I'm pretty happy with that

Excellent!

Superb!

Wow! Brilliant!

That's fantastic! Well done Trooper.

I'm really pleased with how well it came out, and it was super easy to make.

For the flower, cut out a load of petal shapes from paper, scrunch them all up and unfold them. Then just keep sticking them together from the middle outwards I used some paper with a pearl sheen to make it stand out a bit.
The stem is wire wrapped in paper, with a couple of paper leaves, then spray painted with a metallic copper paint.
Mount it to a board and whack it in a frame, and done To about 3 hours from start to finish.

That's fab. I love how the copper and pearlesant paper compliment each other.

That's really fantastic, Trooper. She's going to be absolutely bowled over

It's no handful of tenners though.

Kidding, that's dead good.

I made this for my mammy! It's the names of everyone in the Squirrel family.

Nice one. Good choice of colours.

Brilliant, took me a while to find Sam though!

It looks great, Grim...

We have one from Mrs A and Mali hanging centrally above our fireplace, and we love it. It's a fantastic, thoughtful gift, and yours will be loved just as much, I am super-sure!

Here it is

That looks awesome Grim...

Mimi you hung yours on its side....noob

hm. the little turny arrows don't work. oh well, sideways it is.

That's so that I can read it whilst I lay on the sofa

Grim... did you make the wooden tiles? or buy them from somewhere?

Have you never played Scrabble, Slightly Green??

I bought the letters from a man on eBay.

Can't believe Mali ripped off my idea.

Sheesh, he's never had an original thought in his life.

I am the human BSG reboot

I may rip off that idea also.

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Thread resurrection!

Can you tell what it is yet?

Suit jacket?

Waistcoat?

H&K MP5

Edwardian frock coat

Edwardian frock coat?

Ah, damnit.

Victorian frock coat

Williamian Frock Coat?

I made a cross stitch of Mario

And an Alice In Wonderland quote cross stitch

The mario one is awesome, how long did it take?

When I was in secondary school I did an awesome cross stitch of the World Trade Center.

At a guess between 60 and 100 hours over around 5-6 months.

Sewing corner!



Starting the toile in calico.



New sewing machine in action.



Main body done, final coat will be black wool, so it should look less like an old lady dress

That's awesome! Can't wait to see how it turns out.

Russ, I really like your Mario cross stitch, it's lovely.

Beautiful set up you have there, Trooper, and I’m looking forwards to your progress shots. I’m starting a coat, too, but a trench coat, for a two year old. I’m not sure if making things in miniature makes it easier or harder, due to being more fiddly.

You can get away with stuff being a little bit out on bigger things, too.

In fairness, my experience with this is from traction engines, but I imagine it's the same.

Smaller is definitely more difficult, one of my apprentice pieces was a tailored half scale half jacket, that was super fiddly to do.

I hadn’t even considered that, but that makes sense.

Ok, so a first sewing project should be a circus tent, gotcha

Parachute. Nothing could go wrong!

I think my favourite thing I’ve made in recent weeks was the trilobite tank top. Trying to design all of the motifs to give a sense of the variety of size and form, then fit that to a specific count to get the right size without long stretches of single colour between the motifs was difficult. It’s difficukt to explain, but there’s a lot of jiggery pokery this took to make it knittabke without large distortion from caught stitches. Anyway, I’m really glad I did this, despite the amount of work. It’s also my most liked and retweeted tweet ever, for some reason.