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Peacock Shirt!

        This shirt started with a sketch I made when my sewing machine was broken, one month ago... I decided then that it’s going to be one of the lucky sketches that actually becomes reality!          To make the peacock feather trails quite literal I transformed a feather snap, editing it into the desired shape and chose 6 shades of acrylic fabric colours. I have been planning for some time to try fabric painting and now I’m eager to try some more! The artificial silk is recycled from a saree and it matched my project perfectly! To recap, here's the equation (taken from my maths notebook;) ):                ❈ ❈ ❈         Posting more pictures that I just can’t leave out! If you're won...

❀ ✿ Neat Knit Christmas Tree ✿ ❀ DIY, Recycle... you know☻

        Yep, Christmas is close and that changes everything! Even the theme of my posts- today we get our knitting needles moving ! Last year I made this heart warming tree and I promise you can make it quickly if you are a little familiar with knitting - I am more than familiar but looking at my pattern descriptions feels like trying to read hieroglyphs or a letter from the future rather than a letter from the past - did I really get hold of this nerdy knitting language last year? ☺ Darn right!   (Those of you who are familiar with knitting abbrev. and diagrams will pfff! into laughter considering the amount of info I needed to explain my tree!) Check here what is what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Knitting_abbreviations and if anything is not clear pls ask - I will try and remember what I meant by attempting a lil Christmas tree this year too! A necessary selection: type of stitch (st= stitch) k means a knit stitch a...