Christmas Tree OH Christmas tree !

OK  now I can show my Christmas card 

for this year . 

I was a bit distracted this year with pop up cards/books,

embroidery machine and then Spinning machines.

that when it came to late november that I had not even thought about 

the Christmas cards from us this year . Then we had on Wednesday 

morning the Shopping catalogs "YUNK MAIL" arrive 

and Neal was reading them and then said to me  "Susan 

this is you this is a Susan Style " Handing me a picture out 

of one of them . and said "this should be your Christmas

card this year "

being slice form, it was it was cool so I set out to design it 

in Make the cut 

and HERE is the result of what i came up with

 AND how to make in Make the cut you can view 

on this webinar HERE

And this is what inspired it all

 

Peg loom (loopdeloom) Scarf Blue

When I got the spinning wheel I promissed that I 

would use some of the stash of store brought wool

I had in the house as well . So I went looking for 

a "Peg loom" and on the search to find a peg loom 

that I would be happy with. I came across a kids 

toy called "loopdeloom" and of corse I had to have 

some of them (brought two as they join together to make 

wider projects). And here is the first scarf I made on it .

First the loopdeloom

And my first project (will not be my last this 

took me about 30 minutes to weave)

First weaving project (pink Scarf)

Not only have I gotten some Spinning wheels this past

couple of months but I have also gotten a Weaving loom

(only had kids toy ones before ) and this is the first real 

weaving project i have done in over 25 years.

I used store brought wool 

 Even managed a little pattern on each end of the scarf

Spinning a Kris Kringle

Now I have finished my christmas cards 

and they are all on there way around the world .

It then came time to think about what to do 

for our Christmas lunch yesterday 

(for the spinning wheel group that i meet with on Thursdays )

We had to bring a Kris Kringle present.

As my spinning is still in the learning stage I though 

what was I going to make for the present .

And then I had a thought that I would buy a glass jar and 

etch it with the spinning wheel and fill with lollies.

Then I thought I know I will do an 

embroidered towel. Now I had to take my design that 

I had drawn in Make the Cut and into my 

embroidery software and convert it to a 

stitch file ( added more to the embroidery file like 

the wool)

And here is what i came up with .

(all the spinning wheel embroidery paterns I had seen 

on the net were not what i wanted it to look like )

 And here is what it looked like in the box

Scrap factory Plus expansion packs

We have made it easier for you to purchase the 

expansion packs for the scrapfactory 

(and use paypal) 

you can buy all 20 (no toes) plus 20 (with toes)

For $25
and the christmas set (with and without toes ) for $6

Spinning wheel on a GLASS

Lorraine in the spinning group I got to 

each Thursday has taught me soo much.

And as the spinning days are coming to a close for the 

year I wanted to make her something special . I would have

made hand carder covers (like i did Jaddy's) but she does not 

have any, so I had to think of something else to make.

So while i was cutting the vinyl  to make my etched glass 

I cut a second on to etch a nice glass for lorraine .

So here it is 

Broke my FAVORITE Glass

After nearly 2 years of having a favorite glass 

the other day I watched fall from my table 

and turn into hundreds of pieces. 

I WAS SO SAD.

Easy fix Make a new one 

this time I though I would go with 

a Scrappy Dew Robot

So as not to just replace the other one with a 

second one :-)

Scrap Factory

Another Hat for me

How many hats do I need?

 Well while i am learning to use the spinning wheels

I am ending up  with a few 

Here is another hat 

This is with ashford roving 

and I hairpin laced the spun wool .

I feel with the spinning groups help each and every Thursday 

I am getting better .

A Hat for ME and ............

OK just to let you know that I have not given up my 

paper craft I am loving doing every craft there is again 

(even adding two new ones to my craft)

 Here today I am here to show you my hat I made using 

the wool that I have spun on my spinning wheel .

This time I used the hairpin lace loom and 

used 4 panels to design the hat.

 ****  YES NEWS****

DO you notice something in the top right hand 

corner of this photo?

TWO MORE SPINNING WHEELS 

Yes these are new toys .

A month ago I did not have a spinning wheel and 

now I have a total of three !!!