Making a display for your earrings out of an old picture frame

I found this old damaged frame at a flea market in Antwerp, ready to land in the container that collects all unsold things. There was an ugly oil painting in it, but I had the idea to use these to make a frame for the earrings I sell on markets, so I picked up the frame and carried it home, all the way to the station and on the train.

 First thing to do:
cut out the oil painting canvas but keep the wooden frame where this was pinned on
clean the frame and paint it with water based lacquer paint, cover your work table and paint everything.

 Cover the gilded parts with paint, and don't wait to long to whipe these parts clean again, with a clean damp cloth.
Only whipe away the upper parts , leave some paint in the gaps and holes(sorry for the bad english)

 always take care to turn your cloth, to work with clean parts, rinse your cloth one or two times. Take off as much paint as you want

 After the cleaning, make some retouches of paint that came off, on those parts that needed paint

 let everything dry

 Take the canvas frame and make holes in the sides.
Pul wire trough those holes and fix the wire with pins

 Paint this frame with a colour that matches the outer frame, leave to dry

 Take a piece of cardboard as big as your inner frame (with the wire) cover it with a decorative paper with glue and pin it on the back of your inner frame, I used a paper bag from a shop.

 place the inner frame in the outer frame and use duck tape to keep in in place,
you now have a rack to hang on your earrings :)

Good luck!

A new scarf (Tutorial)

I have knitted a lot of scarfs in my life for my husband and the children and they keep loosing them! :(
Ok, here a new one again, but I like mking this one,
I can use up left overs , and didn't need to go to the store to buy new wool.
I wanted to try a different pattern than usual and it turned out OK.It has a great effect.
It is very simple,

Here is the pattern:

choose different ossorted colours, take 2 or 4 colours that you are going to repeat more frequently to ake the colours come together.
Start in one colour :knit 1,one purl, knit 1,one purl, knit 1,one purl,.....
take another colour: Knit 2, purl 2,  Knit 2, purl 2, Knit 2, purl 2,.........
another colour: knit 3, purl 3, knit 3, purl 3, knit 3, purl 3, knit 3, purl 3,.......
again change colour: Knit 2, purl 2,  Knit 2, purl 2, Knit 2, purl 2,.........
other colour :knit 1,one purl, knit 1,one purl, knit 1,one purl,.....
and the again and again, never more than 3 stiches knit and purl,....
I have worked with wool, but I added some fine stripes of really fluffy mohair in between to give something extra in the design.
Those stripes I just knitted in the same stich, because you don't see the stitches anyway.
You can play with this pattern, it is really fun,
You can make stripes fatter or thinner, as you choose.

Use your imagination.

(I did my best to write this in English, but it will be full of mistakes, so please comment me as much as you like, so I can correct them)I like that, so I can learn.

Have fun!

Felt Valentine Cookies!

And what about this tutorial?

Felt Valentines cookies

I have found them on another fabulous blog:  PAMELA SUSAN

You can find a very clear tutorial "there".

ZIPPERED POUCH TUTORIAL

If you are like me and have piles of fabric in your drawers. this might be a hint!
I found this awesome tutorial when i was lookung around and really want to do this!This blog called "make it perfect" is all about sewing and looks great!
I have always wanted to use zippers, but am always afraid of them and this makes it seem ,not so hard?