The Poultry Keeper

danro · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 9:44 am Post subject:

I've done a bit craft too!!!

I made this from some oak scrap using just two pen knives and a little emery cloth at the end Cool

I made it for my wife for our 5th wedding anniversary

It took nearly two months working on it whenever Seggie (my wife) went out.

Then a year later I made this for our "iron" anniversary..

I must say those door stops look great! Very Happy

regards

Danny

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2177 Location: South Cumbria

beautiful

Lily · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject:

Fab. Love the spoon. thumbup

CP · Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject:

They're really good danro! Wink

vanessa · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1137 Location: Correze

Wow, you're a clever man! Wink

Beautiful.

CP · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

Just had to post this website address for all you crafty people! Wink

http://www.laughinghens.com/

NannyP · Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:14 am Post subject:

You're all incredibly talented, thanks for sharing your achievements. I feel envious and wish I could even have the patience required to do some of the stuff you've made.

I started knitting a scarf, back in Nov 2006 Laughing

in lovely, brown "eyelash" wool. I hadn't knitted for over 25 years and it was interesting to be using needles again.
The scarf (2/3rds finished) is sitting in a bag next to me now!!
I'll probably have it finished in time for next winter Laughing

Auntie Katie · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 219 Location: Cambridgeshire

I am a wanna be crafter. I love Cross stitch but get fed up after a while so start another one - I have about 10 on the go at once! Spana is really crafty (in the artistic sense) and some of it has rubbed off on my sister but I have always been a bit disadvantaged being the only lefty in our family and not having anybody to show me the left handed way to do things. I did manage to crochet a shawl for Bradders when he was a tiny baby and am thinking of getting my hook out again for a friend of mine who is pregnant but can only manage to do squares to stitch together! Very Happy

NannyP · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:27 pm Post subject:

I'm a leftie too, and I wonder whether that has restricted us somehow. I think I was very lucky that an old woman who used to "supervise" playtimes at my first school taught me...but she taught me right handed.

Quite often, especially with scissors, we are covering up what we are trying to cut, or using them upside down.

jaydee67 · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject:

Katie - if you can crochet squares, you can crochet anything!

Auntie Katie · Joined: 27 Oct 2007 Posts: 219 Location: Cambridgeshire

I suffer alot from being a leftie! shoe laces were a nightmare for me! cutting, writing, eating and I apparently put the toilet rolls on left handed too Shocked

I have discovered that non-biro pens are made with a right handed slant to make them write smoothly - I thought I was just the unluckiest person when it came to pens as they are always rubbish - now I know Very Happy

I receive a left handed news letter and they do left handed clocks which I find easier to look at.

I'd like to do my friend something other than the shawl but wouldn't know where to start! Any tips for what and how would be great! Very Happy

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

What stitches do you know?

Oh - and have you tried Yoro pens? We use them at school - the left handed kids love them. We buy them in town (pencils too) but this is info on them.

http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/l-yoropen.html

Gilly C · Joined: 22 Jun 2006 Posts: 2177 Location: South Cumbria

Thanks for the link Jaydee my Son is a leftie will look out for these pens and pencils Very Happy

NannyP · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the link Jd, have ordered one for me and one for my son.

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

glad to be of help! My daughter who is right handed likes to use them too - she started using them at college and found it easier to do a lot of writing with them.