Community Cast Video Day 28

Today’s video is mostly chat covering one of Clara’s favorite things, two things I use for my hands and wrists, tips on how to shrink my ballon style bag to doll size, and an introduction to Don’t Paint the Cat, one of my other blogs.

Wow. This wraps up 4 weeks of videos. These four weeks are bit of a fog for me. (I just deleted a bunch of sad reality stuff.)

I’ve been keeping a log of what I’ve made:

  • 1860 hat
  • 1880 hat
  • 2 thread balls
  • Regency bonnet
  • 3 pen wipers
  • 1860 hat
  • Silk “poppins” bag
  • Cotton stripe bag
  • 3 simple pockets
  • Petite brim hat
  • Dome style hat – Chapeaux cloche
  • 2 apples, 2 chilis
  • Stripe bag Clara decided should be a cat cave
  • Mousquetaire hat
  • 1860 bonnet #1
  • Spool holder
  • Doll body for patriotic doll
  • Wool petticoat in progress
  • A couple masks as required

I’ve decided I want to do a gallery of projects from viewers. If you’ve made one of the projects from the videos, I would love to show them off.

Published in: on April 10, 2020 at 11:55 am  Leave a Comment  

Community Cast Video Day 27

Super short video. I have a migraine.

Published in: on April 9, 2020 at 11:09 am  Comments (2)  

Community Cast Video Day 26

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Today’s video shows how to make a spool holder.

Original spool holders of this style:

Materials:
  • 1 sheet of pasteboard (8.5”x11”)
  • S
    ilk pieces – 2 approx 8.5”x11”
  • Matching wooden spools of thread (number based on shape selected.)
  • Length of 1/4″ to ½” wide silk ribbon – Approx ½ yard
  • A sharp awl and a bodkin
  • Long straight pins (optional)
Templates:
(You may need to copy and paste these into MSWord to size them and print. Use the 1″ line for guidance.)
Circles

Shapes 3

Shapes 4

Shapes 5

Published in: on April 8, 2020 at 11:37 am  Comments (2)  

Community Cast Video Day 25

Today’s video is a little short. I feel off today. There are also a couple pauses for the noise outside. And then the bag of fabric isn’t the right bag. Watch with gentle humor.

Published in: on April 7, 2020 at 11:59 am  Leave a Comment  

Community Cast Video Day 24

For today’s Millinery Monday, I talk about the anatomy of a bonnet and styles of hats. I also give an update on the patriotic doll project.

Anatomy of a Bonnet

Published in: on April 6, 2020 at 11:08 am  Leave a Comment  

Community Cast Video Day 23

Today’s video includes an introduction to my next doll project, a patriotic doll, with a bit on the next next doll, a fortune teller doll, and my attempt at fabric eggs for the window.

Published in: on April 5, 2020 at 11:06 am  Comments (1)  

Community Cast Video Day 22

Today’s video is split in two parts. I had a slight space ooops. This video shows how to make a pear. It is the last of the velvet vegetables and fruit, for now.

I am setting up the new printer at this moment (12ish.) I will be listing hats soon.

Published in: on April 4, 2020 at 12:52 pm  Leave a Comment  

Community Cast Video Day 21

Today we continue making velvet vegetables and fruit. In this video, I show you how to make a chili pepper. You can use the same template for a carrot

This shape can also make a parsnip. Check out the article on how to make parsnips tasty on the GCVM Blog.

Mentioned in this video:

There is a nice collection of vegetables and fruit up on eBay currently. Here

Published in: on April 3, 2020 at 12:06 pm  Leave a Comment  

Community Cast Video Day 20

Today’s video shows how to make a velvet tomato. This is the same shape for making a pumpkin or apple as well.

Templates:

Remember, you don’t need to cut these exactly. If you don’t have a printer, draw these by hand as big or a small as you want. Cut 3 or 4 or 5 leaf shapes for your tomato or apple or pumpkin.

These are the wool pieces I used for the stem and leaves:

Published in: on April 2, 2020 at 11:02 am  Comments (1)  

Millinery & Me Update

I want to thank everyone who purchased an e-publication this past week. It was a nice relief to see little orange Etsy icons appear on my screen. Support like this is both helpful financially and emotionally for artists & craftspeople right now.

I hope you are enjoying the videos I’ve been doing. I find they help motivate me to do something each day. I am trying to balance what I talk about between millinery, FanU, and other things. The videos are single takes. So, I hope you don’t mind the raw footage. I could do fully edited videos with picture in picture, but I let my Wevideo lapse.

If you or someone you know is looking for something to read or a project while they can not leave home, I have a few e-publications available. The balloon bag and the pillow ball pincushion can be made out of most people’s stash or even scraps.

I have been sewing straw millinery the past few weeks. I am going slower than usual. After much indecision and some guidance from friends, I ordered a printer and scale so I can ship from home, with the Post Office picking pieces up. I will start listing millinery as soon as my new printer and scale arrive.

In the meantime, if you are interested, I started a Patreon account:

Published in: on April 1, 2020 at 12:11 pm  Leave a Comment  
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