Did you see the vintage craft challenge on Thompson Family-Life? I LOVE the idea. Complete a project from/inspired by a vintage pattern and post it to the new Flickr Group, Vintage Craft. Use the group as motivation to complete a project every month! I know I could really benefit from curbing my project-hopping.
I finished a project inspired by a vintage pattern, just last week. It’s a little pin cushion inside of a napkin ring. I found the original idea/pattern in THIS book and changed it up a bit to suit my materials and tastes.
I didn’t have the right size needlepoint fabric to make the petit point, so I went back to my trusty triangles pattern and voila! A pretty motif the perfect size for my wooden ring. It’s filled with a tight roll of batting on the inside and a circle of cardboard at the bottom with a piece of kraft cardstock covering it (making it smooth).
I don’t know what’s next on my Vintage Craft agenda, but I do have a ton of beautiful books to look through. I saw a knitting stitch pattern that was a bit intriguing. I may adapt it into something else.
Won’t you join the vintage craft fun?
Oh it looks great! Off to check out the vintage craft group. I have so many vintage patterns but have yet to complete any of them. I bought an awesome book yesterday with some gorgeous patterns in.
LOVE! so little and so sweet, you did a really perfect job! =)
Ohmygoodness – how awesome is your lil vintage pincushion?? Lovely! I’m *so* craving vintage craft, now – i hope I have a chance this week to break out an old pattern!
I am in love w/ the pin cushion that you made.
& I am in love w/ the idea of the i {heart} vintage craft. i wish I had a little more time to play along.
Love the little pin cushion, so sweet. I wish I could join in the Vintage craft also but running my own shop and making many of my own designs keeps me pretty busy. this week I made some obi belts from vintage kimono silks and obis, turned traditional hilltribe skirts into wearable skirts and some cosy hot water bottle covers. http://alittlebitofeverywhere.blogspot.com/2011/05/back-in-shop.html
You can see them on my blog.