I have a beautiful spindle made by my friend, Shannon aka SpinSanity. Actually I have two gorgeous spindles that I am not worthy of. Why not worthy? Well, she makes gorgeous drop spindles and my spinning on the spindle still needs massive hours of work. But if you want to see beautiful spindles check her out! Really, check out her website: SpinSanity Spindles
So, I needed something to store my drop spindles in so they wouldn't get broken while I travel here and there and everywhere and Shannon recommended getting a wine bottle holder. Well, geez, I love wine! Wine also tends to make me spin better (I say with a wide grin) Why didn't I think of
that? There weren't too many choices around at this time of year. Sometimes you can find holiday themed ones or ones with grapes covering them. Well, over at Hobby Lobby, which I hate shopping at because they are closed on Sundays, they have a bunch of cardboard containers that people can paint or do whatever with and I found the wine bottle holder so I bought one and have been toting my gorgeous spindle around in a boring brown container.KnitWithSnot went the creative way using her handy dandy sharpee and wrote a message to fend off Zombies but alas, I can't do that nor did I get a picture of it. Darn it!
I have must beat to my own drum so I wanted to do something that reprensented me.
ME, ME, ME!
I wanted something...WONDERFUL! Can you imagine me using an idea that doesn't have "Wonderful" in it?
Well, what is more wonderful than the Wonder Why Alpaca Farm? Honestly, you really need to come visit the farm.
Well, I decided to try my hand at decoupage.
Yes, I did something non-fiber crafty to make my fiber-crazed crafty self absolutely happy.
I took some of my favorite photos of my herd (this was the longest and hardest part of the process because I have way too many options to choose from) and used the decoupage glue and started to adhere them to the contain
er. Very little cutting or cropping was necessary because I wanted large pictures. I chose to keep the white borders on most of the photos to to create a block look.Now the tricky part was getting the photos to stick since the container is circular but I was patient, for the most part, and I got them all on. A lot of glue goes a short ways with me (that's me snickering). After the photos dried then I was able to paint another layer of the adhesive on top of the photos to seal them in. So...now my beautiful spindle has a case worthy of it's beauty.
Of course, I am so busy admiring my herd that it's hard to concentrate on spinning so what did I do?
Well, I got out some roving from my beautiful alpaca, Sugar Breeze, and I have started spinning her ro
ving and you know what? I think I am spinning better now. (Big Smile)All it took was the right atmosphere...and maybe the bottle of wine that was supposed to go in the carrier.
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I think sometimes going off on a totally new direction (like decoupage) can recharge us for our craft of choice!
ReplyDeletevery clever storage idea-I'm gonna run to Hobby Lobby and get me some containers--I like your decopage-must be great to look at your herd wherever you go now.
ReplyDeleteAre these commercially printed photos, laser printed, or ink-jet printed? And depending on which, are they with water-proof ink? Some ink-jets, a few, have water-proof ink, many don't. Just a caution for those considering a similar project, although I recently ran across a product for sealing with a spray (it's not the Krylon stuff) or two so that one can then proceed with projects like this and not worry about the image running and the like.
ReplyDeleteI have a wine-bottle carrier around (I don't drink alcohol tho) that I have odd-size knitting, crochet items in (long hairpin loom in that's too tall even for the carrier), with the lid attached via being "threaded" on the "handle" of cording; good thing too since the odd-size knitting and crochet items are often just a bit too tall even for this, but it's the only place I have for them, and I can hang it over a doorknob still to keep it out of the way.
Woops, sorry to ramble. It's a pebbled blue textured one I got awhile back at Michaels for a clearance price of $2.50 instead of $6 or more.
I have one spindle, and had never thought of using this as a spindle holder! Off to try . . . . . . .!!!!! Thank you SO MUCH for the idea!!!!!!
I printed these photos on my inkjet using HP photo paper. The photos were printed prior to using the decoupage glue.
ReplyDeleteI didn't have any bleeding of color. It did mute the photo colors but that is due to the satin finish that I purchased because I didn't want a glossy look.
The clue was painted on using a brush with no issues at all and I didn't use any special ink. It is the standard HP ink that we buy for our printers.
I wasn't sure what to except and was prepared for failure so having it work out on the first try was a total bonus.