whiplash - gift and decorations
Thank you everyone for your feedback and for entering the competition. Hope all the gifts and your handmade efforts were appreciated by family and friends.
I only have a few prizes this month to give away. So here goes:
The following three people will each receive a copy of ‘The Crafters Companion’ Edited by Anna Torborg Published by Snowbooks.
Alisa made sock monkey sets, pjyamas and sock monkey slippers and sock monkey dolls. Really fantastic handmade gifts - I am sure those kids just loved them.
I love the knitted/felted wine cozies at dropped a stitch - with pattern for those of you wishing to make some for gifts.
Runaway penguin made a set of three beautiful knitted linen facecloths.
The following three people will each receive a set of handmade/letterpress/gocco greeting cards designed by various artists and donated by Artstream studios
grasswire made a beautiful beaded handing mobili - and has a tutorial if you want to try this yourself.
Some wonderful cozy slippers for Alaskan winters made a wonderful gift by notorious.knitting.ninja at craft addicts
Mama urchin made this giant knitted/felted pea to accompany the book.
The following people’s entries were also excellent, great ideas and tutorials and definitely need to be mentioned. - I am sorry I don’t have enough prizes for all of these.
Fourty-two roads had a great idea for gift wrap and the presentation of gifts.
Merete has some wonderful small beaded tree table top decorations, and a good tutorial for those wanting to try this out.
k8tykat made vanilla essence and presented it beautifully in sweet little bottles. Great idea - her recipe is available too.
livebird gave all her nieces and nephews an alien stuffie.
kat-knits made a simple doll with a wonderful array of outfits for a very lucky little girls.
Paranee did a wonderful job making cool aid dyed and felted camera cases as gifts. Her tutorial is pretty good too if anyone is interested in making these.
What a fantastic advent calendar by pink chalk studio - longest to complete but really gorgeous.
I love this idea for making a christmas tree using a road works cone by Not scarlett, good directions too.
I love the wee jumper/decoration from under construction
the cards made from pressed leaves and flowers at completely cactus are just beautiful.
Ihanne made the most beautiful wreath from flowers and candles.
Future girl has the most adorable octophrost - ornament.
ruby crowned kinglet with her suede reindeer
January 11th, 2007 at 7:45 am
Congratulations to the winners! The entries this month were all really great - it must have been a difficult decision to pick the winners.
January 11th, 2007 at 8:22 am
I’m in awe. These are beautiful. Congratulations to everyone!
January 11th, 2007 at 9:10 am
Those are all amazing! Great job everyone !!
January 11th, 2007 at 10:12 am
wow…every single creation is fabulous!!!
January 11th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
wow! what a great list of winners. and, thank you for including mine, i am so pleased to be included with such wonderful things.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Oh, yay, some of my absolute favorites won - what a wonderful set of handmade goodies!
Thanks so much for including mine in the list!
January 11th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Wow, there were so many amazing entries this month. I am honored (and humbled) to be among the winners. Thank you so much.
January 11th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
I’ve loved looking through all the entries, there are so many lucky gift recipients! Many thanks, especially for having such an accessible theme this time around.
January 12th, 2007 at 3:40 am
thanks for mentioning my little doll..i was quite proud of her
January 12th, 2007 at 10:54 am
[...] Welcome and A Year in Review I’ve been seeing a bit of a traffic surge here at Mama Urchin in the last few days due, in large part, to my recent whiplash win over at Whip Up. Thanks so much Kath for choosing my little pea as one of the winners. And thanks also go to Blair for such a fun idea that I only adapted. Wow, this is starting to sound like the academy awards, and I’d like to thank Jill at my LYS for helping me select the yarn…. Seriously though, thank you. [...]
January 14th, 2007 at 3:32 am
A celebration of the breadth, skill and creativity of this fabulous community.
January 14th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Thank you so much for choosing my wine cozies to be among the winners - I am very honored to be in such great company! I really enjoyed looking at all of the entries, and was inspired by so many great designers. I love Whip Up!
January 15th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Though I’m not really into handmade crafs myself, I like to spend time at cradt shows looking for original design ideas. I’m very impressed by a the originality of some of the winning entries.
The entry with wrapping papers is especially interesting: they present a great abstract painting with a puzzle hiden in it. The puzzle solution is connected with the gift itself. I think it’s a very cool idea.