Ta Dah 2015

Goodness, I have surprised myself yet again with the production line of creative items this year.  A wide variety of items...... gifts, a couple of items for myself, fund raising items and project linus quilts/blankets.

January 2015

Project Linus

Lavender Cross Stitch - for me 

March 2015

Quilting Stilettos - Fund Raising

Crochet Brooches - Fund Raising

Crochet Brooches - Fund Raising

Crochet gift tags - Fund Raising

April 2015

Crochets Slippers -Birthday Gifts

 

June 2015

Felt Making - for me

August 2015

Camera Bean Bag - for Me

September 2015

QoS - Fund Raising

QoS - Fund Raising

October 2015

Baby Quilt - Gift

Project Linus

November 2015

Project Linus

Project Linus

Rainbow Blanket - for me

December 2015

Christmas Runners - gifts

  

  

Wine Glass Charms & Stitch Markers - Fund Raising

Christmas Table Runners

Last year I made a decision to make as many Christmas gifts as I could this year.  Did I succeed........well no, not really.  The majority of my gifts were still purchased from major high street retailers...... but I did make more than last year, so I'm heading I the right direction!!

Mini Christmas table runners......

Cheam Camera Club: PDI

So what to enter for the second round of PDI's.  Something different I think.

PDI
Round 2

Car Grill (With a Twist):  Taken at Brooklands, the car grill in its basic format was from a bright Yellow Morgan - a great car and an even better colour!! This image is the result from some experimenting with PS.  Turned four times and multiplied (as the blend mode) to sit on top of each other.  Proper photography - no - but I like it.  Judges comments Guessed straight away it was a Morgan, which surprised me but had a little difficulty (even though I had added the wording - with a twist - to the title) in working out how the grill had been turned.  Liked the curved nature of the corners and colour-  Score  8

Red Berries:  Taken in Littlehampton. Up early for Sunrise only to find my tripod was broken, I took a stroll along the front, ending up by the boating lake and experimented with some multiple exposures. Once again - proper photography - no - but I like it.  Although I'm submitting this as a PDI, I think this would work well using textured paper..  Judges comments -  Really did not like the title - although five red berries appear on the image - if using red berries there needed to be more clusters of berries for that title to work. However, although the title did seem to upset him slightly he liked the image - he liked the use of the multiple exposure in this instance. Score  9.5

Pleased with both results tonight.  My highest score in a PDI competition (I think), so far - 9.5.  Can I achieve a ten before end of season??? Watch this space!

Fund Raising Gifts

Last months the QoS had a table at the local Wallington fair to sell some our goods to raise money for our small club.  We have another in a few days - so here's my contribution to help replenish the stocks.

Knitting & Crochet Stitch Markers.

Knitting Stitch Markers

Wine Glass Charms

I'll be interested to see how they sell. What do you think?