Yes its been over a week since I last wrote. I have plans and things I want to post BUT I cannot find my camera battery charger!!! so I can't take pictures!! I also had a big big birthday party for my youngest and was quite busy planning and preparing for that festivities as well so I did have my handful but I haven't forgotten about this blog!! I will be back shortly to post patterns and recipes in a day or two.. meantime I'm going to go tare apart my bedroom, where I think the battery charger is and locate it, charge my camera and we'll be back to business! Mean time here is a card I made this Halloween using $1 stamps and some punches. the spider web is just a web printed scrapbook paper I punched out with large circle, spider stamp was punched out using medium size circle, and the scalloped circle was one of those extra large scalloped circle. and then we have the square punch in Large and the Jumbo scalloped square. all the stamps I used here was in the $1 bin at Michael's this year.
I got this pattern from one of my favorite basket supply/designer Suzanne Moore. She no longer has this pattern on her site but you can pretty much do the same thing with any basket. I got these "trims" from Hobby Lobby but you can also get them from Jo-Ann's, Hancock Fabric or any other fabric store. These beads are stitched on a ribbon like fabric which you tacky glue it to the rim row, attach rims and then lash it. In her pattern she uses waxed cotton thread but I didn't have any on hand and I really wanted to finish it without going to the shop for some waxed threads. I used 3mm flat oval dyed in denim to tie it in together with the blue beads and the blue weavers on the bottom of the basket. I think you can use fine fine cane to lash as well but I think dyed 3mm works! Happy Weaving!
