Making of 'Better'

 

   I don't know know if there is a better way I could have made 'Better', but this is how I went about it:

    I have a problem with second-hand shopping, not so recently I purchased a wonderful wool coat, despite its giant stain and ill-fitting nature that is. A couple of years later I decided it was time that that coat became strips of fabric, which then became rolled up wool fabric tube-type things that I stored for some time in a box. Finally I had a job for them to do! I rolled up two tubes and pinned them into place.

   I then laid out some shiny yellow chord into the shape of the word, pinning it along the way and sewed it down invisibly from behind.

It just so happened that the horizontal on the double 't' perfectly lined up with gaps in the swirled tubing and was in an ideal position to turn this word into a ring (all beit for a very tiny finger, smaller than mine, but briefly it was ok to cut off my blood supply to demonstrate its ring-like ability).

 

 

 

 

Making of 'Lips'

 

(My table top is melted and has dark nail varnish on it, its not incredibly dirty just so that you know.)

 

 

 

 

 

I started with a selection of Fimo teeth I had previously made just for the laugh, along with some nice red jersey that I found in the Textiles department's Aladin's Cave-esque stock cupboard in which any number of magical things can be found...

 

 

 

Once I had made little jersey tube-letters stuffed with wadding, it was then time to decide what kind of mouth these lips belonged to. When the right lips and teeth had found each other all that was left was to sew the teeth carefully to the lips. This was made more difficult by the fact that I had for some reason made the holes at the back of the teeth so small that only a hair-fine beading needle fitted through. Oh well, I found a beading needle, so all was well.



 

 

 

 

 Finished!

 

 

 



Making of 'Lovely'

A lovely time was had while making this word. It started out with some lovely acid green wool, an impulse buy from the bargain basket and went from there!

Some knitting dolly French knitting things off...








....followed by some pinning into a (hopefully) lovely cursive font!

It was then time to knit a teeny tiny sock, and having forgotten to ask the advice of my knitwit little sister who is well versed at the knitting of miniature socks, I had to make it up as I went along. This was not without its difficulties.

  As soon as I had finished knitting my mini sock I realised that I hadn't started out with a ribbed edge, diminishing the wearability of my sock, and that would never do, so time for some unravelling and re-knit. But once that was done everything was fine and dandy and lovely you might say...