Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
I am having agreat time learning to do Engraving the easy way, I am doing my first one it is a Copperfoil of Majestic Lions and the cost of the kit was just £2.50p,but my eyes are leting me down some what but I am geting there.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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#2
Good for you Vic, perhaps you could progress to etching your eggs?
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#3
It is just away of relaxing Tom away from council work etc which I also like doing.
We also have a 500pieces of jigsaw, it is of the Thames-Clyde Express Steam Train I got it from the Buckland Hospital shop only 50p,when I went up there to have the dressing done on my leg.
#4
It's always great to do something new. Good on you, Vic. I don't have the patience for jigsaws, though, so hats off to you!!!
Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#5
Good for you Vic, trying new things is always fun.
Guest 671- Registered: 4 May 2008
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#6
Vic
Get yourself a magnifying glass on a stand, like the type used for soldering. I have one if you want it, i don't use it anymore?
Good to see you at the KMF, hope you enjoyed it, sorry I did not get time for a chat.
"My New Year's Resolution, is to try and emulate Marek's level of chilled out, thoughtfulness and humour towards other forumites and not lose my decorum"
#7
Try a daylight bulb and work with the light over your right shoulder (if you are right handed). Good luck - being creative is so satisfying.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#8
Thank you all for that and yes I will try them all at some point,also later on I am going back to rug making, but that costs alot of funding to do a big one.
Yes Gary we was over there alday and had avery good day out,I know lots of the familys out there,years ago I was the Co-op milkman out there,and also when I was boxing and a trainer I got to know them alot to.
Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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#9
As Bern says, it's always good to try something new. Rug making is good Vic, I make rag rugs which don't cost much at all, only the hessian or the canvas, as you can use discarded fabric and old clothes The rugs look good too - here is one I made some months ago:
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#10
Mrs Hollingsbee.
That is very good, no way could I do anything like that, the wife could but not me. It would have to be one of the kit ones with the wool coming with it,but they are over £50each and that is not a big one.
Thank you for showing us what can be done even with left overs.
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#11
The 'kit ones' Vic are not so simple to make !! I would much rather do one of these, and get it finished in 3 - 4 weeks !! There's some coats, dresses, jackets, and the white is from old vests, in this.
All we needed was the canvas or hessian.
Costa Coffee last year offered coffee sacks to all the British WIs, as a 'challenge' of what to make from them, and members of our WI made some of these (but smaller) rag rugs, they are lovely.
Cost nothing only a bit of time ! And time to cut up the snips of fabric!
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#12
Wow, Kath. Great rug. Now wishing I had not sent all my old clothes to the Hospice shop!
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#13
Well done all. You clever people.
Tis like a rag-rug to a bull...
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#14
I agree Mrs Woodridge it is very good, and I will be looking at keeping my left overs and having ago.
Also I have done alot in my garden, I have done a beach with pebbles,plants,D/wood,seat.ETC, and a wind mill, +it all lights up at night., water -spring fountain,its not done that great but we like it.
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#15
A moonlight garden, lovely !!
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Guest 719- Registered: 11 Jul 2011
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I rember doing them with my mother we used a old spud sack and old rag,s that my mother cut up
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#17
Old sacking is not so easy to come by these days, though I have seen it on the bird and pet food stall at times on Sandwich market, 50p each I think they were, had contained peanuts. Just need washing.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#18
What a great rug Kath.
