It's slightly later than planned, but as promised here is my post about when crafts go wrong.
You would be forgiven for thinking that all DIY and craft bloggers are brilliant at most crafts. We put a lot of time and effort into giving that impression. Taking images that are 'perfectly pinnable' and light and bright. I have a new lens that blurs out the background - which is fantastic as that can hide all manner of imperfections as well as looking very 'bloggy'!
It's time to come clean - I have a lot of projects that never make it on to this blog and the above egg cosy was almost one of those projects. I have 2 reasons that I changed my mind and decided to share this project with you. Those reasons are:
ONE: If you experiment with crafts that you have never done before, things will not always go as planned. We should celebrate that and share what we discover with others so we can all learn together.
TWO: My second reason for sharing this 'egg'sample (ha ha, sorry!) is that the first part of this project - my DIY loom has proved my most popular post so far. So I felt compelled to share that the second stage of the project didn't go as well. Hopefully then, you guys don't make the same mistake - unless you really want to make an egg cosy!
I was trying to make drinks coasters in fun spring colours for our house. The weaving was going perfectly and looked lovely but as soon as I cut and tied the ends off to finish my coaster it became apparent I had gone the wrong way about it.
I will show the steps where I think I went wrong but I have to admit, I haven't made my coasters yet so don't know for sure if doing it differently would work any better.
Once I had finished weaving, I tied my weft thread to one of the warp threads I tied the two loose warp threads together.
I then cut loose all of the remaining warp threads and paired them up and tied them together in the pairs.
I don't think I should have done this. I think pulling these threads together to tie them has resulted in me pulling all of the warp threads tighter than they should be and therefore making my coaster curve into an egg cosy type shape.
I then threaded the loose ends through the back of the coaster.
When I next try to weave myself a FLAT coaster I am going to try tying each warp thread individually and thread through the back of the coaster - however I've not tried this so don't know if it would make any difference.
Above is my egg cosy coaster with a drink on it. It's curling up - not what you want your coaster to do - a sure fire way to see your drink being spilled all over the table.
So, this craft did not turn out as I planned but I've ended up with two bright spring coloured egg cosies. My timing is perfect with Easter soon!
I'd love to hear of any crafts that have gone wrong for you, did you throw it out or turn it into something else? I've done both in the past!
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