Introduction

[dsenette]

Don't be shy, no one here bites

.....i do

welcome aboard...i hope you didn't inherit too much of the "crazy nut job"...er um i mean "eccentric artist" stuff that johanna got

[Suze]

Where do you think SHE got it from?.......

Taught her everything I know. >giggle<

Since we are only a few years apart in age, we sort of grew up together, and since the rotten kid was allergic to OUTSIDE. We did a lot of stuff inside during the summer.

She taught me to play chess when she was 7 (I think, It was a long time ago) and I taught her how to get rid of her dad when he had to play the game for us........

Do you know that you can move the knight all the way across the board if you jump a piece each move? (We drove him nuts - he left us alone - we went back to playing chess "right" )

Oh and Beverslayer---

I already have a "first leather project" -- a pair of "mary jane" shoes

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For my dollhouse - they are less than a half inch long.

But they are leather!

did them about 20 years ago.

[Johanna]

This is the 8 strand braid. Suze says it's about 15 feet long so far.

I'm going to post pics of her miniatures in off topic. I did get over there today, with my camera. Now she needs to get the rest of the stuff out on display so I can take more pics!

Johanna

[JustWakinUp]

Suze,

As beaverslayer said, beware just hanging out you'll catch the leather bug. I've been around for about a month here and was just admiring and asking questions about the art. Well low and behold I just posted my first piece. I look forward to seeing some of your work, BTW the 15' necklace looks wonderful I'd be interested to know if it was easier to make the entire length then cut it to individual sizes.

[Suze]

I have yet to find the "right" bead cap ends for the silly thing. But if you look up KumiHimo and see a pic of the brading stands - yes it is easier to make a "looong" cord then making necklace lengths.

you lose about 6 inches of string on each end of the cord, so I would have had to use lots more material to get the same amount of cording.

That cord will become officer badge holders for my SCA group. and I used rayon DMC embrodiry floss ( the "real" kumi uses silk- when I get better at it - I will too, that stuff is expensive!)

To cut this to length you put a "wrap knot" (macreme term - I think you call it that in leatherworking too) where you want to cut, soak it in superglue (not sure about this, I think it might make the rayon brittle, or eat it. must try it on scrap first.) let it dry and cut the wrap knot in the center and put it in the jewlery findings of choice.

I might use two wrap knots close together and cut between them and use a bit of fray check or good ol Elmers instead.

But before I can really get started on craft projects again I HAVE to find the space to do them.

I am cleaning out the house of "way too much stuff" and it is slow going. (clean sweep team would faint if they saw the basement "craft storage")

You want it - I got it - at Ashgrove's Amazing Anomilties

[Peter Ellis]

But before I can really get started on craft projects again I HAVE to find the space to do them.

I am cleaning out the house of "way too much stuff" and it is slow going. (clean sweep team would faint if they saw the basement "craft storage")

You want it - I got it - at Ashgrove's Amazing Anomilties

chuckle. So you suffer from the standard Scadian syndrome of severe packratitis ?

(Barony of Carillion here)