December 2006 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

zippered pouch and flower

December 25, 2006 @ 5:19 pm · Filed under: Sewing

Now it’s Christmas, I can show you the present I made for my Mum. It’s a zippered pouch (based on the twelve22 tutorial) with a tsumami fabric flower in the same fabric as the lining of the pouch. Happy Christmas Mum – hope you like it!

crocheted snowflakes

December 24, 2006 @ 3:55 am · Filed under: Crochet

Looks like this is the only kind of white Christmas I’m going to see this year! I crocheted these snowflakes a couple of weeks ago (loosely based on these patterns) but I’ve been sick since then so I never got around to doing anything with them. Happy Christmas!

sweet sweater

December 23, 2006 @ 5:36 pm · Filed under: Crochet

In the Fall 2006 issue of Crochet me, there was a crochet-along to make a Sweet sweater. I really wanted to participate, but I had to finish my afghan first, and then I needed to give my wrist a break from crochet for a while, so I bought some yarn but didn’t get started. Now the official Sweet crochet-along is […]

no more jingling keys

December 14, 2006 @ 11:03 pm · Filed under: Other Crafts

I wasn’t sure if I should post this or not – it’s so simple, and not exactly stylish… But it’s so useful and it really works – you could make a much prettier version (and I probably will, but I’m testing this one for longevity first). By the way, I have been making other things […]

roll-up crochet hook case tutorial

December 3, 2006 @ 11:28 pm · Filed under: Sewing, Tutorials

As promised, here are the instructions to make my roll-up crochet hook case. Click the images for larger versions. First, you need to figure out how big you want your case to be. I drew the figure below to design my case. Here are my calculations, in case you want to vary the size: I chose 24 […]

tsumami poinsettia

December 2, 2006 @ 8:23 pm · Filed under: Sewing

This is my entry for the December One Hour Craft Challenge (a lovely brooch or boutonniere). I thought with Christmas approaching, I’d try making a poinsettia flower using the tsumami techniques I started learning last week. I tried making up some different folds for this one, and used fabric glue and sewing to assemble the flower […]