Category: craft

craft, felt, sewing

Little felt friends

christinahopgood
I made some cute little felt friends using my new Aranzi Aronzo book. The only potential problem is that I can’t read Japanese. My creations MIGHT have been made wrong. I didn’t use any pattern for the star.



The lighting looks different in some of the photos… I guess photogrpahy is not my calling!

brooch, craft, embroidery, felt, sewing

Brooches!

christinahopgood
I’ve been making brooches! But now I’ve given them all away. I even made a duckie one and gave it away BEFORE TAKING A PHOTO. Dumb dumb dumb.

First attempt.

Second attempt.

Third attempt.

I see an improvement! I think that the third is the best. Or you could say… a flower in the hand is worth a bird and another bird in a bush?

craft, cute

Blow Keyboard with foot pump!

christinahopgood
Yesterday I bought this ridiculously cute blow keyboard.


But this morning when I tried to play my favourite tunes, I found myself running out of breath and getting dizzy. I kept forgetting to breathe and then realising that there was no sound. It took a lot more air to keep it going than I expected. Then I remembered bagpipes. These are all the things I used:


My bag is an empty wine cask with the rubber valve taken off. Then I’ve got my blow keyboard, a cork that fits the hole in the wine cask, a bit of tube, and a foot pump. Here’s a closer look at the cork after my excellent dad and I finished messing with it:


We cut two holes right through the cork with a very thin, very sharp knife. The round hole fits the piece of tubing, and the rectangular hole fits the mouthpiece of the blow keyboard. This is how the bits fit together:


So, foot pump into tubing, tube and mouthpiece into cork, cork into wine cask. Now all I have to do is pump up the bag, and squeeze with my knees while I play and pump! Now I can even sing along! Another option is to blow into the tube rather than use a foot pump.