Crafty Old Man

Well what can I say since I last posted no one could of predicted that a virus would cause a pandemic causing us all to go into lockdown!

I hope everyone stays safe out there and whatever you do listen to advice given to us to help get things back to normal again! With this in mind a big shout out to Julie Jackson (@subversivecrossstich) for the free pattern to make which sums up what most people want to say to those few who think they are invincible 🤦‍♂️🤯🤬🤯

This is my version 🤓

I thought I should check I had enough to keep me busy if can go out for a bit 🤔 so below is the cross stitch kits I have to do😳 add this to all my other crafts I don’t think I will get bored at any time soon 🤪✂️🧵🧶

I may have mentioned my little crafting friend before @hev77 well she mentioned doing a project at the same time and went for the Palmistry pattern by The Witchy Stitcher which I love so couldn’t say no. Only problem was I didn’t have coloured Aida to do it on so decided to dye my own with tea and then baking it…

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This is the final design stitched and hung up proudly in our house 🤓 went for my own choice of thread colours and really pleased with the end result.

So hubby works with dementia patients and due to the virus has to wear face masks with elastic our ears for 12 hours at a time so made him an ear saver to save the painful 👂 👂’s

Mentioned in the last blog I had purchased the threads etc to do three Harry Potter cross Stitch designs and happy to report first one is complete I can’t wait to have all three side by side! I have just started number two so watch this space.

So due to not going out at the moment and having time on hands I decided was about time we had some proper napkins as use paper towels when eating things with hands or messy 😇 Any excuse to get out sewing machine, and some fat quarters later we have 4 napkins 🥰

For the next time buster I whipped out the Cricut and cut some vinyl to put onto my WIP folders just to jazz things up a bit. Well why not🤪

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So what do you do when you get an email saying that The Motherload set of books by Mr X Stitch are on sale half price 🤔 Well you order then damn quick to give you some reading master oak for those sunny days in the garden 🤓 📚🤓

I finally got around to setting up my Cricut corner I craft room as well there is no stopping me at the moment I am on a mission and loving it 🥰

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Wow scanning back through it appears I have done more than expected seeing as also decorated bedroom, built furniture for sunroom and given the garden a tidy up 😳 Why am I not normally this productive 🧐🤦‍♂️

I hope everyone stays safe and makes the most of being with family or loved ones at this time, as this situation won’t happen again I hope! Anyway I hope you don’t think I will be this productive every blog post 🤪. If you want to keep up to date with what I am up to then please follow my social media accounts on the home page 👍