 Hey guys Welcome to another week of my creative year this week. We're going to talk about fiber now There is a lot of different ways that you can Take this prompt and I'm sure the other teachers are going to take it In a each in their own way, I'm going to do my own way and I am going to Crochet some trim onto a tag now Don't freak out like I don't know how to crochet. I don't you know, I can't be ball You don't have to know how so there's a lot of other ways that you could do this And we will talk about them as the process as I work through the process but To start with let me just show you really quick how to do it I'm going to use this bigger tag because the tag I'm actually going to use for the page I think is this little Clothing tag, but it's a little small. So I think I'm going to zoom in and show you on this one now To start with I have these two punches which took me a while to find because I put them away in a safe place These are leather hole punches for Marking out your stitching on the edge of leather. So but I got these to use on paper So to start with I think we're going to use they're obviously different You know distance is apart. I think we're going to just go with a bigger one and I'm of course not going to mark anything out, but this is going to get a little loud I'm going to line it up on the paper a little bit from the edge like an eighth of an inch from the edge From the top edge and the side edge and then give it a whack and then you get two holes Yeah, so I'm going to do that all the way down and I'll be right back While I was at it. I punched the long edge of the store tag too Okay, so now we have all these holes along the edge. You're going to need some embroidery floss or this is crochet thread Which I happen to have a bunch of because I used to crochet doily so I pulled out a color that will go with the journal page that I Want to add this to and I may end up actually adding both of these but we'll see You're going to need a really small crochet hook one that Fits in the hole Enough to grab the thread. Okay. I'm going to need my reading glasses because yeah This is teeny tiny All right, we're going to take our thread and we're going to make a slipknot so you make a loop and Then you pull the thread through the loop and that makes a slipknot Pull it over Put the hook in the in the loop and then pull it tight. Okay To start with we're going to do a row of single crochet across the tag in the holes So we're going to put the crochet hook with the thread on it through a hole We're going to grab the long not the tail, but the long piece of thread This way and then we're going to grab it with the hook and pull it through and Then Pull it through both loops. I pulled that a little tight. So let's do that again So don't pull this too tight. You are crocheting on paper. So Take that into account When you're doing this, especially for the first row So you don't want to pull it too tight. It was too tight On the hook, okay So now we pulled the long thread through the hole and we still have that original loop on the hook Can you see that? So now I'm going to grab some more thread and pull it through both of those No, it's hard doing this while I'm filming pull through both of those loops and that's a single crochet So I'm going to do that all the way across So I see I have two loops And I'm going to grab the thread and do Pull it through both do it again Again, don't pull it too tight because it makes it really hard. I'm used to like crocheting on fabric and this is different Because it's paper So you want to get something that looks like that on the edge This is something you could sit and do in front of the TV at night or Turn up the radio. I'm out of practice Crocheting with these little tiny hooks as you can tell Those of you out there who do crochet So this is crochet cotton. I think this is 10. This is size 10 crochet cotton. This is a Lisbeth Not e-lisabeth just Lisbeth and It is color. I don't know what color it is Color 658 and this is crochet hook. This is a Boyle I think boy. Oh boy B. O. Y. E 1.3 millimeter size 10 You can get those punches at any arts and crafts store that sells leather crafting supplies if you have a store in your area that is Only sells leather crafting supplies like we have a few in the Bay Area Not as many as we used to we have a store called Tandy Leather. They do have an online shop I will link them in the description below Where you can get some things like that. Okay, so now we're all the way to the end And I'm going to crochet two chains. So I have one loop on the hook. I'm going to grab the thread pull it through I'm gonna do that twice Hey I'll show you again. I'll go back to Okay, we're gonna turn it around the card around. We're gonna Grab an extra loop of thread on the hook. So we have one loop on the hook. We're gonna grab some more thread We're gonna put the hook into this first chain that we made and we're gonna pull that Thread through again, so we have three loops on that hook We're gonna pull some more thread through two of those loops So we only have two on the hook and then pull some more thread through The last two loops and that is a double crochet the first two chains count as one double crochet and that one I just made is two So we're gonna do three Usually I do five to seven. We lost track of that one So one two three four Anybody keep track of how many that was I lost track. I think that's five We're gonna do seven because I don't like the way that looks so we're gonna do seven So we'll do two more. Okay, then we're gonna skip a chain And we're gonna go into this one and We're going to grab some thread. So we have two loops on the hook We're gonna pull some more thread through both of those look loops. That's called a single crochet So you have this little fan part and then a single crochet and we're gonna grab some more thread on our hook We're gonna skip a chain and go into this one And we're gonna do seven more double crochets Again, if you don't know how to crochet you're very much not interested in learning. That's all totally okay think about taking some Fabric trims maybe even a crochet trim that you have an old piece of lace an old piece of fabric and Hand stitching it or gluing it to the edge of a tag to the edge of your journal page Because you actually could do this in your journal page You could machine stitch it on with a sewing machine six It's hard to talk count when I'm talking Almost lost it. Did lose that one. Okay, so skip one go into this one do a single crochet again Grab some yarn. So we have two on the hook and pull some more yarn through Then grab an extra piece of yarn skip another one go into the next one And do it over again, and you're gonna get this all the way across You could skip putting fabric on here all together and you could Just glue a piece of a doylion But keep in mind that the prompt this month is stitches I'm the topic this month month is stitches and the prompt this week for my creative year is fibers You could just glue a bunch of Yarn fibers or thread fibers onto the edge of your card you could just tie some you know decorative knots into the fibers And then glue them down Really think outside the box and see what you can come up with I'd love to see what you guys do two more a skip one single crochet grab some extra yarn Skip one and two seven more. We're almost done almost to the edge This is a scallop edge My grandmother it's one of the first ones my grandmother taught me In those days we were doing it on the edge of a handkerchief Which I don't think I ever finished so I don't know where that handkerchief ever went to Okay, we're gonna end in the very last stitch where that slipknot is with a single crochet Maybe we are there we go and then take your thread through the loop that's on the hook and pull it through and Then cut cut this part pull the yarn ball thread out and then see pull Pull that tight. There you go now, you know, we're mixed media artists So we are likely to just leave these hanging if you were working on a proper project you would weave them back in I don't know that I'm gonna do that right now. I'm gonna just leave them hanging I'm gonna go ahead and do this one and I'll be right back to add this other piece on I am going to first though. That's a similar or the same color as the thread that I took. I have these pit pens Let's see I'm gonna use this one. So I think we're gonna use this paint pen, but I don't think it's the right color And or you know, those of you who have paint pens know like You don't ever work what you want them to actually take that back that might work. We might use both So I have a couple pens So the first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna take our quote, which is laughter is the best medicine that I printed from Something that I saw online Cuz I didn't have that quote In my stash of words and I wanted that particular quote so and it cut it apart at least in two. I'm Wondering so if we did it like this with this Or if we did this Like this Okay, so I think I want to use a glue stick and we're gonna put the laughter on the craft card stock We're gonna just go for it Okay We're gonna cut this up a little bit more make it a little bit smaller and then glue I'm not gonna think about it too much. I'm just gonna get it done Okay, okay, I am going to take my white paint pen used earlier on the face This paint pen is not opaque. So some of that writing will still show through which is fine with me. I just want to make it less Distracting from the words because the words are the most important thing and then I'm going to lay this on here And I'm going to add some white paint pen to the craft card stock Just so everything looks cohesive I'm gonna get out my Tim Holtz tiny attacher My favorite our journaling tool I'm gonna just staple Love that in staples You've been watching me for a while. You know this. Oh Except there's no more in there It's the second time today. I've had a stapler run out of staples on me to grab some bring this back Zoom out figure out where we want to put it and just chop it off Don't throw that part away. You can still use it for something else Okay, I'm gonna staple that on Turn out to get my fingers stuck in any like wet paint pen or something Okay, now I wanted to get these other blue pens out because I want to mimic the design of the crochet that loops Somewhere else on the page at least one more place so that it doesn't look like it's just there By itself. I don't at the same time. Oh, do I want to do it in pen? I have another idea. I'll be right back Okay, the idea that I had was you know instead of drawing something I've got the art thread out I've got the hooks out. Why don't I just make another separate piece of the lace trim? Which I did the same way I did the ones on the card only instead of starting on a piece of paper or fabric I did a row of chains and I actually did 18 chains and then I did the same thing that we did before I did the scallops with Seven double crochets then skip a chain do a single crochet seven double crochet skip a chain Do a single crochet until we have this and then I I just tied the two threads in a knot at the end and I think that I'm going to put it like in her hair The question is do I want to put it here or here or Here I do think I'm going to trim these. I think they're a little bit long I think I want to put it here and we're going to use some tacky glue This is the Turbo tacky the stuff that dries pretty quick. It dries clear. Let's trim some of these long threads Because I I don't mind them hanging there, but Let's just trim them a little shorter because they're a little too long I want to glue those down so they hang down like it's like a piece of jewelry in her hair Like a hair clip and I glue the curly end of it down over here. Hold it for a second and there we go Laughter is the best medicine. I love that so think about adding some fibers to your page in a new and unique way And see what happens. I love the way this turned out I love the texture. I love the feel of it, and I love the laughing face So that's it for this month, and that's it for this week I can't wait to see what the other teachers do. 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