big surprise crochet stuff

What fun! This is the kind of thing we'll be doing at my "Subversive Sewing" workshop this Sat. evening. There's been so much interest and the whole idea has just grown and grown and now I am feeling a certain performance anxiety, though! My original thought was to show a bit of crochet and hairpin lace and how one can use them to make little bags for mobile phones, etc. Instead, I am scheduled for the main day of the festival and during the evening "prime time."

Erin

OHHHH ERIN BEST OF LUCK TO YOU

make w>>> I acumulated lots of `ends` of Bias ribbons and made them into one big

Erin you could also , braid or roll threads and than make dolls , how are you with making Witches on Brooms dolls ,,,,? need instructions ? mirjam

I would LOVE instructions!!! The Witches on Brooms sound really cool.

:-)

Erin

Well here you are ,,ERIN i have been making them and teaching others how to make them as long as i can remember ,,, thus we could say it is a Folklore thing.

You need some colored threads ,,,, a pencil or a Chop stick or any tiny wooden kind of stick pencil sized. take one color and wrap it on your other hand on the part after the thumb ,, wrap so that you have 20+ wraps, take a diffferent colored thread slip the wraped ring on this thread and tie a knot with second thread at one place on the wrap. leave long enough thread for hanging later. Hold the knotted place,smooth down the rest of the wrap, hold the the wrap with 2 fingers and make a 2nd wrap at this place ,and knot it. now you have a `head` between the 2 knots ,,,, put this aside and make a second wrap on your hand but this time only 5-7 wraps ,, take second wraped ring and slip it under the `head`, with a another thread knot the `hips` under the hands. now make 2 tiny wraps at the ends of the hands . cut the end thread of the Big wrap opposite to the HEAD ,,, you can embrioder tiny eyes on the face and add `hair` at will ,,, YOUR witch is ready ,,, now make a 3rd hand wrap , if you can do it with RAFIA , or another Coarse material, make a Head like you did for the witch, take the pencil or stick , PUSH it into the `head` , and wrap strongly around the head so that it becomes a broom , cut the threads at the other end ,,, push the broom stick so that it enters under her HIP thread and comes out on the other side over the hip thread... hang it on the Head thread happy making . mirjam

Braided dolls ,,,, braid several threads together and have at least 1 thicker/ longer braid and 1 shorter thinner .... Fold Thicker/longer braid in 2 so that wide sides of the braids face you , use one thread and sew an invisible seam to get a face

1//////////2/////3////////// 1\\\\\\\\\\2\\\\\3\\\\\\\\ sew from 1.....2 use thin/short braid anf sew it`s middle under the point 2 ,,, and go on sewing the two parts of the braid [ all the time keeping it flat now you can embroider the face add hair etc ,,,,,

mirjam 1

Mirjam, both your patterns sound really interesting. Is there any possibility of seeing pictures of the finished "witch on a broom" and the "braided" dolls (close-ups too if possible)? I'm one of those people who find it easier to understand a pattern if I can actually see a picture of the finished item.

*hugs* Gemini

Hi Mirjam they sound a bit like the ones we used to make, and we used to cut the ends of the arms and legs and even the head after tie ing up well with thread and chop short to give a kind of crew cut head and hands and feet..LOL

Higz Cher

I think Cher that this are the kind of dolls that were made all over where people had threads ,,, I thought about your version with the crew cut hair ,,,, one could make both kinds together ,,, it is all about spreading the fun ,,,,,,,, The Witch on the Broom was my own made toy ,,, since i remember my self ... mirjam

I remember at school when the collections of keyrings were all the rage, my friend and I used to make lots of these for other girls to hang from their pencil cases...lol

higz Cher

Hi Mirjam, we didn't for us kids, but the hole in the little zips on the pencil cases was used to hold keyring charms and of course these dolls etc... The flipping pencil cases were quite heavy .. because of all the charms and bits people had and we'd tie charms to the buckles of our satchels too.