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All done and ready to wrap for Christmas!! I found the fabric was double sided so did two of each colourway though it's so subtle you have to look hard. I had to make two smaller - the fabric was a remnant and the pattern on two of the panels wasn't quite complete. The dragons were fine but the surrounding borders had to be clipped. I used a contrasting fabric for backing and on the picture of that you can see the method I've used: handy tip for making cushion covers - make them pillow-case style but with a slightly bigger overlap, then it's easy to get them in and out for washing. You can use that method for duvet covers, too, though there's the disadvantage that most washing machines will turn your cover inside out and pack everything else inside. Still, it saves having to sew on buttons or poppers. The final pic is the scrunchies I made. Note the one of cushion backing fabric! I love the colour. The others are: black velvet; denim; pillowcase fabric; a handkerchief.







I find my machine is behaving badly. It's fine on straight lines but if it has to climb hems etc. it panics. It has never been quite the same since I did the upholstery I told you about. I had a better machine but it was in our Portuguese house that got burnt down. Despite insurance I don't feel quite justified in buying a new machine. I expect I'll have to eventually!

Hello! I’m moth2fic and I answer to Moth even in rl. I write and self publish as Jay Mountney so I answer to Jay, too. I try to do everything myself (not editing, obviously) so that means learning formatting and doing graphic design for covers. I take a lot of photographs and sometimes photoshop those for cover art. I also use them for making e-cards for birthdays etc. I make cards that can go in the post, too and use various techniques including quilling and 3D decoupage. Most of my close family and friends have had so many handmade cards I’ve stopped forcing them on them but last year I got involved in a craft exchange and made a set of 3D cards for various occasions for my recipient.

I sew and embroider and I do what Nagi calls shuttle tatting. I didn’t know the other kind was called tatting until today. Again, I don’t do much now because there’s a limit to how much tatting one family needs. My biggest sewing project ever was reupholstering a three piece suite and then adding applique work cushions. The suite is alas no longer with us but the cushions are still around. When my daughter was little I used to make stuffed toys and I made a couple for my grandson.

I do flower arranging; in fact I learned about 3D decoupage when a guest speaker came to a flower arranging class I attended. I also make dried flower arrangements.

Current project: embroidered panels/pockets to add to a plain summer dress I just finished making. So far, all I’ve done is choose the colours, but then we’ve got plenty of time before I’m likely to wear it! Another small project is to use offcuts (I can never bear to throw pretty things away) to make some hair ‘scrunchies’ because I’ve started growing my hair during lockdown. I’m also planning to convert my mother-in-law’s clip on earrings, which I inherited, into the kind for pierced ears. I’ve got all the kit but keep putting off the task.

So my main hobby is writing plus associated tasks but the other things are always in the background. A big thank you to Small Hobbit who alerted me to the fact that this comm isn’t just for knitters, which is a good job because somehow knitting and I have never really clicked. The icon I’ve used is a picture of a 3D card I made. I make icons but would need ideas for making any for the comm/mod.