Fairisle Knitting!

 

 

Hello

welcome to my little crafting place! 

It's Spellbinders Club time again, and as it's July it must be Christmas!

I come from a family of women who are/were accomplished knitters. My Grandma was brilliant - she could knit using four needles, circular needles, and all that clever stuff! She could knit socks, Aran patterns, Fishermens 'Ganseys' and Fairisle patterns with their intricate patterns made in lots of coloured wool all at the same time, the ends of which she would into little balls fixed with safety pins and dangling off the back of her work.  I think she was probably the one who taught me to knit - But, I never took to it and was such a disappointement! I can clearly remember her saying "I don't know who you take after" (in a Northumbrian accent, of course), as I loved sewing but loathed knitting.  I think I found out eventually as when I looked into my family history I discovered that my Great Grandmother on the other side of the family had been a seamstress. I actually made contact with a fellow researcher who as a young girl had lived next door to my Great Grandma and told me that the house was full of things she'd made and embroidered, and I also have photos of her daughter wearing dresses her mother would have made

Anyhoo, the July Wax Seal of the Month reminds me so much of those Fairisle pr Scandi knitting patterns I saw my Grandma knitting.  So I just couldn't resist using it to make a Christmas Jumper shaped card!

I started by making a bunch of seals using this stamp, but as I already had this in mind I made several with the same aqua and white colourway.#These are all made using the 'pour and scrape' method, heating the stamp a little, pouring the white wax and scraping away the excess with a heated spatula, then pouring the aqua wax and placing the stamp (with the white pattern still in it) into it.

 Next I made a jumper design on the pc using an old template I alredy had and altering it to get what I wanted. I resized the image so it would fit in an envelope and printed it out on paper.  I used this as a template for cutting the fron of the card in a pale turquoise card stock. The actual folding section of the card is a piece of plain white card glued to the back of the jumper section

I used a blending brush to add 'texture' with a couple of deeper shades of ink, then adhered my wax seals in place.

You'll see that I changed my mind about the style of jumper I was making and just added a freehand cut polo neck

 To finish I used the Let It Snow sentiment from Snowman Scene Etched Dies and holly from Sealed Holly Sprigs which are great dies for using as they are or for separtaing the individual leaves to add to projects

I used

 

from Spellbinders;

July Wax Seal of the Month

 

White Wax Beads

Must-Have Wax Beads Mix Teal 

 

Snowman Scene Etched Dies (Simon Hurley's Snow Globes Collection) 

  

Sealed Holly Sprigs

 

Other:

White card

Turquoise card and inks

Scraps green and red for holly 

  

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 Happy Crafting, Take care of yourself, and please come back soon!

 

 Kathy xx