Return of the Omni-crafter

Had a quietly busy sort of weekend. Spent most of my time at the workbench in the guest/craft room, making things.

Started off with finishing my latest Metal Earth model, which actually turned out really well and is awaiting proper photos before I make a post specifically for it.

Then made a cushion cover that's been waiting for me to find the time for months. That's now looking pretty on the guest bed. Emboldened by this success, I moved on to the small bolster cushion that needed a cover for my room, and I even threw in a quid's worth of basic piping from Hobbycraft.

This also turned out pretty well!

So I unhooked my curtains from their tracks in my room, loaded up a bobbin and thread of matching colour and finally, not less than four months after putting the damn curtains up in the first place, hemmed my curtains. It took all of half an hour, including time spent removing them from the track and reattaching them.

It's been 14 years months, that they've been hanging there with little glints of silver from all the pins holding the bottom edges up. No more! They've been hemmed up. And it's even relatively straight, too! Will wonders never cease.

To round off a weekend of crafting, I started in on a notebook for my sister in law. My SIL has recently discovered tarot, more as a ritual way to force yourself to re-examine things and think outside the box rather than as a completely mystical tool of foresight and prescience. Either way, she mentioned wanting a notebook to jot down her card spreads and her thoughts about them etc., and I still had an unused set of bookboard and tapes, short-grain plain paper, yadda yadda, lying around.

I got as far as folding and punching the signatures, and then had to waiting until I could nab my book press/sewing frame back from the spare room at the folks' place where it's been waiting for me to find space in the craft corner for it to live in.

Nabbed that yesterday so in a few days, when I'm not busy all hours with work, I'll sew those signatures together into a book block and go from there!

Either way, model making, sewing and bookbinding in the space of a few days, I think it's fair to say I still have some omni-craft mojo in me.

I'll be back with some snaps as the notebook progresses, and at some point will take some better quality photos of all my metal models to go up here too. Don't hold your breath though!