butterflies

Wow, that was a long break in posts! But I'm back now and hope to update this blog a little more often.

I have a new blog up and running, click here to visit. The aim of this new blog is to showcase my own patterns and designs, many of which have been published in magazines, and some of which will soon be for sale through my Etsy shop, so its more of an online portfolio than a blog, but if you're interested, then hop on over and have a look.

I thought I'd share a couple of the things I have been working on today. I found a pattern for 3d butterflies here and so decided to make some.

I made this one using 4ply cotton (dmc natura, my favourite cotton for crocheting, and no i'm not sponsored by them in any way!), and popped it on a hair slide for my daughter.

Then I decided to make a tiny one using thin crochet cotton. This time I made it into a necklace

My mind works in very mysterious ways, and while I had the crochet yarn and tiny hook out, it turned to jewellery. Nothing at all to do with the butterflies I'd been enjoying making, but this time I made a flower ring. It was a little plain so I decided to add a few seed beads into the centre, and this is what I ended up with.

A quick and pretty ring. I think I'm going to make a few more of these as they were so quick and easy to make.

Cardboard Earring Display Template

For a while I made jewellery which I sold at craft fairs, but since I’ve discovered my love of fabric and yarn is all-encompassing, I’ve decided that the jewellery has to go!  Over the next few weeks I’ll be adding it to my Etsy shop at clearance prices, basically because I need the space to fill with more fabric!

I decided to take some photos of the jewellery, but couldn’t find a prop I liked to show it off.  Then I found a template for making my own cardboard necklace display stand on Pinterest and voila here is my necklace stand.



Now that was all very well, but the colour of my card was too light to show off the necklace, so I grabbed some crepe paper & covered the cardboard.



Much nicer don’t you think?  Well now my next problem was that some of the sets I had to sell also had earrings.  So I grabbed some more cardboard, messed about with shapes and here is my solution:



I then changed the words:


and then tried a little subliminal messaging:



But then I decided that there was too much cardboard and too little earring on show, so I adjusted the template again:

Anyway enough of my creative process, here is the template I used to make them.

Copy and paste this template, and print it out on an A4 sheet of cardboard, and you can make your very own stand.  Cut along the lines, and crease and then fold along the dotted lines. Thread some ribbon or string through the bottom two holes and pull it together to make it stand up.  The letters are back to front as I printed it out on the reverse of the card, that way you can’t see all of the template lines – clever eh!

Hope it’s useful for you

Sally
xxx