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Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 8th, '19, 22:49
by Chrizine
Ah right. I wasn't sure, thanks for explaining! :)
In german we call them what would translate to spaghetti strap tops - which I find wonderfully descriptive of the concept :D
Do you ever call the halter ones "neckholder tops"? Because that's literally what we call them in german, not translated or anything - but then again, german often has words that are somehow derived from english ones but aren't used like that or don't even exist in english -.-
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 8th, '19, 22:53
by jacobgrey
No, I never heard that! Haha, how funny. We can say spaghetti straps sometimes also though I think.
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 8th, '19, 23:14
by Chrizine
Yeah, germans are weird :D
I mean, we call our cellphones "handys" (pronounced like an english word) and you might have heard of our use of "public viewing" ;)
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 9th, '19, 13:18
by jacobgrey
I didn't hear of that before, but it sounds like just how I would use it anyway :D
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 9th, '19, 18:55
by Chrizine
Hm, okay, maybe it's just americans or something who use it differently. But I've read that people in some parts of the world find that really weird.
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 11th, '19, 03:30
by jacobgrey
Probably haha. Or it could be because I'm from the art world, and a private view there is just coming to look at someone's gallery before it opens, so public view sounds completely normal also :D
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 11th, '19, 14:32
by Chrizine
That could be it, too :)
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 13th, '19, 01:55
by Chrizine
I finally started one of my skirt projects!
It's actually the newest one, I bought both the pattern and the fabric in december when I was travelling. But it has a paper pattern, so I didn't have to print and glue which made it the most tempting to start ;)
I just finished transferring all the pattern pieces onto the fabric. That was a lot of work though :D
I hope everything will work out, since I completely ignored all the instructions on the pattern about the grain of fabric, since I wanted the stripes in the fabric to go the other way. We'll see if I bitterly regret that in the end ;)
Here's the fabric:
It already has the pattern pieces on it, but you probably can't see that on the picture.
The pattern I'm using is
burda style 6375, variant A (the longer, yellow one in the picture).
So... yay, project kicked off! :)
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 13th, '19, 07:42
by Driverscissors
I'm not as crafty as i used to be, but enjoy making those things like loom bracelets or jewel bead from time to time. I miss my crafty/DIY phase...it was wonderful, i now tend to inclugde and admire others work alot, although i have had an increased interest in jewelry work.
Re: Chrizi's Crafty Corner - come chat!
Posted: Jan 13th, '19, 18:06
by Chrizine
Welcome to the thread Driverscissors! :)
Jewellery making sounds fun, I don't have any experience with that. The closest thing I ever did was probably putting some nail polish on chopsticks to make hair sticks out of them :D
Do you have something specific you'd like to try out if you had the time /energy for it?
Is there a reason why you don't do as much crafting as you used to? Lack of time? Lack of inspiration?