Are you up for the first challenge of 2015. I thought we needed something to take us out of the January doldrums.
Your mission, should you care to accept it, is to try something you haven't tried before and share the results with the rest of us. This should preferably be some embroidery, but if you must go sky diving, that is fine, so long as you get pictures!
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I am sure there are many things I have not tried in embroidery. I am with Meganne, I am not going to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I have not done anything ITH or the fringe mentioned below. I, too, am afraid it will all unravel if I cut the wrong threads. :)
9846I made a purse for the first time, but I can't seem to load a photo.
Diane
22354Sky diving is out for me, done the wall of death, the bungee jump while backpacking in au,I would like the textile trip to India but need a companion,so will give the challenge some thought, just to get a picture of my projects on cute would be great.
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7314Ok I will join too.. Just only need about the challenge I will select for myself
148927Quite a few responses to this challenge have already made an appearance in the Projects section. This has shamed me in to doing something myself today!
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140717I just did that with that ole bear made my very first pattern ever*****lol hugs
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360651I have a lot of things stored up I haven't done and said I would. Now let's see if I can SQUEEZE one of them out, LOL :) FIESTA ;D
63126Just the prod I needed. Have been procrastinating doing this AnitaGoodesign fringed flower design for fear of cutting the fabric underneath or the threads pulling out. The fringe effect doesn't show well in the picture but all the heart and flower petals are cut. This is on a fleece jacket for our youngest GD
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by greysewist
26 Jan 2015
This is pretty impressive, I think. It can be scary cutting those threads. Well done!
1334Well Every body seems to be making fingerless gloves and I have not made one before so that is a good start. Or skydiving.
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128OK, well (Marianne) Greysewist has shown me the error of my ways and one thing I haven't done is embroider, not on Polar Fleece, but on Faux Fur and I had been meaning to make myself an owl cushion ever since I digitised the owl face for JerriB to make, Heavens! was that two and a half years ago!!!
I bought the fur fabric ages ago but, as usual, that's as far as I got.
So this is what I will have a go at doing.
Thanks Sue, now when is the deadline?
Hugs n roses, Meganne
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122864Sounds great, but do you mind if I chicken out from skydiving and try something new in embroidery.. marian P.S thanks greysewist for the inspirational list..
45918I decided this year I was going to challenge myself by doing something I hadn't done. Sew I made a lined bag. I put a double pocket on the back and two pockets on the inside. i did put it on facebook yesterday but here it is for you It is a lot bigger than I thought it would be but great to take to sewing group
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76409hmmmmm i will have to think about this one ,,,, one thing I can tell you for sure it will NOT be skydiving lol
23581I am going to give it some thought ..................got an idea but I have not done it so will have to see if I am brave enough to try it
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299559Hmmm, do we need ideas of what people may not have tried before (other than skydiving!)? FSL, Applique, ITH -or ITH Zips!, colour work, redwork, Cutwork, mono a handkerchief, umbrella or bottle carrying bag (which could be embroidered), tablerunner, personalised lead or collar for your dog or other pet, polar fleece quillow (quilt/blanket that tucks into its pocket -which can be embroidered on two sides!), tissue holder for a small pack or a box, mobile/cell phone holder, cup/mug/candle wrap, embroidering on a T shirt or windcheater or any other stretch fabric.....someone else can probably add some ideas that you might find too challenging to have attempted yet :)
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by greysewist
25 Jan 2015
My brain doesn't know when to stop now...digitising a simple design with that software you've had for years!, cross stitch (machine embroidery or handwork), tote bag or clutch purse, embroider on toilet paper or paper kitchen towel, machine embroidered card or bookmark...
by pldc
25 Jan 2015
well out of all of these I have not done a paper towel design or Skydiving lol hubs has................sky diving that is
by greysewist
25 Jan 2015
I've not done paper towel either, L, but have been winched out of and back into a helicopter and have been up in a decathlon biplane while it was doing loops, barrel rolls etc etc-close enough to skydiving for me!
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158717Closest I ever came to skydiving was enrolling on a course, just after my 21st birthday as my parents did not give the needed permission earlier. Unfortunately the instructor, pilot and 2 pupils died in a plane crash two days before the course was due to start. Then I chickened out.
I have to think hard of something I have not done before, including sewing a kite my son uses for kite-surfing (needed 40 m of spinnaker cloth), which at least starts at ground level - and often ends in the North sea. lol
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by spendlove
25 Jan 2015
I just thought I'd spice it up a bit!
Your story sounds scary though. I wanted to try it about 20 years ago, but my head of department at work and my mother told me firmly that they preferred to keep me in one piece. I abseiled down a cliff instead.
by mops
25 Jan 2015
Done that quite a lot in my mountaineering years. Boy, have I become boring since I had kids!
by pldc
25 Jan 2015
lol nah the kids are grown & now you do what you love to do......so keep doing it. You learning new things all the time Martine & your an inspiration to us all
145304Like Meganne I have not skydived and sorry Sue have no intentions of considering it as a option. The thinking cap has gone on and in due course I will give a answer
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by Leaha
25 Jan 2015
I'll join in the fun...is she jumping off a chair? That's as high as I'll go! lol
by zoefzoef
27 Jan 2015
Yep, count me in.. You need to install some wifi cameras so we can all follow the jump
115763Gee Sue, I can't think of anything I haven't already tried, except skydiving, and there's no way I'm going to jump out of a perfectly good plane. LOL!!!
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