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I make! Wire wrap edition (1)

So, here’s a thing I’ve been doing.  Kind of.  In my spare time.  Of which I have little.  And what little I have I am generally bemoaning what little spare time I have thus totally squandering it.

Anyway.

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I have embarked on this journey to make the cable for a pair of Sennheisers I have less tangleable by wrapping it with embroidery floss (a larger diameter cord is harder to tangle).  It’s…taking awhile.  And I’ll have to be adding floss to it before long because I didn’t cut the originals long enough to wrap the entire length of the cord.

Anyway, this is just a friendship knot (or lanyard knot or barrel stitch or crown knot, I should probably get a book on knots in English so that I don’t have to scramble around the internet looking for proper terminology and then find all this conflicting information) around a core (the cable) always going in the same direction so that it spirals around the core.

I was going to do a variation of the knot that involved more string and colors, but then it got to be a big tangled mess with the length of string I needed to use.  But that’s ok!  I’ll change colors somewhere along the length of the cable as I run out of existing embroidery floss.

No, I don’t particularly care about the Miami Hurricanes.  Why?

I make! Felted zombie turnip edition

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Grrrraaaaaaainsss…?

I’m going to assume zombie turnips are vegetarians.  Not really sure though.

So, I made a zombie turnip!  I was inspired by this Whimseybox that I did not purchase because they released this box after I put my account on hold.  Granted, their turnip is happy and mine…is a zombie.  Mine is obviously better.

Anyway, I had all the stuff I needed on hand already.  You may remember that I’ve previously done some needle felting.  And also there’s the peacock in this gif.

This was from a post with actual spiders in it and not just the fat yellow one I drew, so I didn't link.

This was from a post with actual spiders in it and not just the fat yellow one I drew, so I didn’t link.

Since I already had all the stuff I needed, I went ahead and made a zombie turnip.  I figured it would be an interesting activity for a Friday.  Possibly even with the younger kids on Sunday.  I know someone who allowed a two year old to do needle felting, so it can be done, especially since the kids I take care of are considerably older than two.