Sunday, Day of Rest......

I liked Father's Day last week so well that I have decided that I am going to take Sundays off for a while. I made myself a new rule or two. You get one pretty picture and at least 3 mini websites to go visit. Chances are at least one of them will be someplace that you haven't been before.

Here's your pretty picture. These are three of my coiled pieces. The beige and white one is a little bigger than a quarter. The red one is one of the first ones I tried in openwork. The piece on the edge of the flowerpot is a free form piece that will probably wind up as wall art. As you can see, at the time the photo was taken I was still working on two out of three. My usual operating procedure. The first one was done with two separate colors of over dyed floss an the other two each came from a single skein. I do these baskets with two strands of floss over the smallest covered wire that I can find. This was #32 cloth covered white that came on a spool like thread. I am going to get to work and do a tutorial for this kind of basket pretty soon.......Be aware that when I do you will want a really good pair of eyes or a lighted magnifier to work. I will give you the basics and let you run with it.

Now for the trip to new places.

This is one of those pages that has lots of links to other sites and tutorials. There may be some that you have already run into but there are a lot of different ones too. Elsewhere on the Treefeathers site are some projects and printies too. Dig around. It's fun.
http://www.treefeathers.com/miniref/Projects.html

The next site is one that, if you are interested in making food from poly and resin, is a must see. Unfortunately, Mary Eccher is no longer with us, so I don't know how long the site will be here. I guarantee it will make you hungry. http://pannikins.homestead.com/new.html

The third one is an ezine for doll makers. Most of the issue shown is mini size. You will have to go dig through the other issues to see what's there. Lots of neat instructions are here. http://www.frillsandfancyezine.com/2006/FF5/index.html

Have a great Sunday! I will see you tomorrow.