The Iron Craft Challenge for this week was to craft something with or inspired by Peeps. I already knit a Peep Rabbit this year, and I was planning to knit a chick. I had the yarn, and I took it with me to BlissDom and … didn’t knit a stitch. Surprise, surprise. So I decided […]
Turn Ties into Fabric {Iron Craft ’13 Challenge}
When I sign up for creative challenges — which is what this year is all about for me — I have the best of intentions. But I’m pretty busy with my day-to-day stuff, and I’m rather a procrastinator, even sometimes on things I enjoy, so I don’t always do the best job with follow through. […]
Pop of Orange Circle Art {Iron Craft ’13 Challenge}
The Iron Craft challenge for this week was to create something using the color orange (or the fruit, I suppose). I immediately thought of some orange fabric I have, though I ended up using some less-dramatically orange fabric. I wanted to make a little organizer out of an embroidery hoop, but I don’t know where […]
Upgraded Canvas Shoes {Iron Craft ’13 Challenge}
I told you a couple weeks ago that this year I’m really trying to embrace creative challenges that come my way, and one of the projects I said yes to was Iron Craft. This is a challenge put on by Kat at Just Crafty Enough, which I learned about because she’s a knitter and she […]
Embracing Creative Challenges
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I’m doing the One Little Word challenge for 2013. My challenge is to live with the word create through the year. One way I’m doing that is to embrace creative challenges that come along that can help me to stretch and do some things I might not […]