November's Challenging Projects - ended

This batch concludes our November's Challenging Projects. I hope you all had fun while working on them and that you are looking forward to new learning lessons

I must say the submissions are all fabulous

Now I'm setting up a poll to see what will one of our December projects be. Don't forget to vote on it!

Read you all soon and happy crafting!



nini





It's becoming colder outside (ok, in our half of the globe ) plus the holiday season is just around the corner so we are proposing two very practical projects. By completing them you will be set with at least two gifts to give to your loved ones. If not for anything else but this I hope we will have at least as many entries as we had in previous month.



I was really happy to see quite a few tutorials on the subject on deviantArt. As you can see there are many great ways to make a fleece hat and all of them have one thing in common - they are very simple to make.

For those of you who never had a needle in your hand .. don't be affraid! Below you will find an explanation of the stitches and trust me, hand sewing is really really easy

So... here are some of the hat tutorials... I think you'll get the picture quickly







Off site... all of the above explained really nicely: community.livejournal.com/craf…

A tutorial for a little different hat

And as promised... Basic Sewing Stitches and dA published


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We all need them every year and why not make them by ourselves?

Here are links to some amazing ornament tutorials. I'm pretty sure you can all find something nice for you to make - I know I did. There are even quite a few for wire wrapped ornaments which means you can continue using your newly developed wire wrapping skills

Loads of different suggestions: www.craftelf.com/craft_elf_hol… and www.craftsolutions.com/results…

Tree ornaments made from scraps - great looking ones indeed: www.craftster.org/forum/index.…

Simple instructions on wire ones: www.ehow.com/how_4451304_make-…

Great paper one: dailyscrappinspiration.blogspo…


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If you are only thinking about participating in this month's challenges I give you a very good reason to actually do it. It's a special Christmas Tree Decoration Contest in which you get to make someone very happy and pleasantly surprised. Do enter!


This will be done the same as in October. Send us a note titled Project Submission and I'll upload them every Friday as we move towards the end of the month.


Do come in the chat room and stay for a while - someone is bound to come in and help you if you have a question. You can be there and just chat as well. Isn't that cool?


Now go and dig into our challenging challenges. I'm really curious to see the results!


Yours trully,


//Ninina-nini