BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Handicrafts?

**Posted by TiggyDoolittle** June 7, 2014 4:11 pm

Great fun until they ping back on your fingers haha.

**Posted by besleybean** June 7, 2014 4:18 pm

And litter the playground!

**Posted by TiggyDoolittle** June 7, 2014 4:20 pm

haha ye. When I go to collect the kids from school its a game of spot the loom band instead of spot the loony.

**Posted by TeeJay** June 9, 2014 6:42 pm

I don't usually cross-post, but I think this fits here as well, seeing how we've previously talked about fabric painting and transfer pen on darker fabrics. I used the ironing transfer pen on this as well, and it worked like a charm:

And, yay, now I have my own Sherlock t-shirt!!! (Even though it'll only be recognized by the hardcore fans, but that's actually the way I like it.)

**Posted by MartaSt** June 9, 2014 6:46 pm

This is awesome! I wish I had it

**Posted by zeratul** June 9, 2014 7:08 pm

The dalek shirt is done btw:

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** June 9, 2014 7:11 pm

AMAZING!

That is an amazing job and I love the motive!

**Posted by TeeJay** June 9, 2014 7:14 pm

Sweet, I like!

**Posted by zeratul** June 10, 2014 5:59 am

thanks

**Posted by stoertebeker** June 11, 2014 6:37 am

Zeratul, this is fantastic! You are really talented with fabric painting!

@TeeJay: I love your skull shirt too. It reminds me a bit of the logo of the Wacken Metal Festival , maybe I can borrow it when I'll go to Wacken in August ? No seriously, how did you do the shirt? Is the subject painted or is it a print? Either way, it's great. I also like it when subjects on shirts are only recognizable from real fans and for other people it's just a shirt with a funny picture (same with your shirts, Zeratul).

**Posted by zeratul** June 11, 2014 7:14 am

Thank you.
Yeah saw something on facebook on how things from Doctor Who mean nothing to you, if you haven't seen the episode(s).
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d3/22/c9/d322c9b485cebe4fa51fa4e55f05cdae.jpg

**Posted by TeeJay** June 11, 2014 8:12 pm

stoertebeker wrote:
@TeeJay: I love your skull shirt too. It reminds me a bit of the logo of the Wacken Metal Festival , maybe I can borrow it when I'll go to Wacken in August ? No seriously, how did you do the shirt? Is the subject painted or is it a print? Either way, it's great.

Thanks! The skull is painted on, it's not a print. It's liquid fabric paint that I painted on with a regular hair brush. I transferred the outline onto the t-shirt with an iron-on transfer pencil, and then painted the rest with a brush from the screencap I made.

**Posted by zeratul** June 22, 2014 9:35 pm

Current project, final details to come tomorrow

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** June 22, 2014 9:54 pm

That one is so fantastic!! Alonsy!!

**Posted by zeratul** June 22, 2014 10:23 pm

Thank you .
Well I saw this one on a daily-shirt shop and thought, I can do this was one on my own . I'm not very good at inventing stuff myself, so I always look for things I can adapt .

**Posted by TeeJay** June 25, 2014 8:34 pm

This isn't so much handicrafts related, but it's sitll got to do with personalizing your things in a creative way. Because let me introduce to you the latest member of my electronic gadget family. This is.... Mycroft:

Extra points for those who recognize the fandom that this is related to.

And, yes, I know it's wrong to name a laptop after a character in one fandom and then give it a skin from another. but I just couldn't resist, and I'm not changing his name. I did name the C: drive "Top Secret".

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** June 25, 2014 8:40 pm

That is an amazingly cool laptop!! Wow! And I love the name!

**Posted by stoertebeker** July 3, 2014 8:58 pm

I recently did some sewing stuff (by hand):

I used felt in different colours, lace, embroidery cotton, beads and sequins for the patches.
With one of them I made a felt mobile phone case (not quite sure what I'm doing with the other ones):

I suppose my next creative projects will be more textile work as I am a proud owner of a sewing machine now .

Last edited by stoertebeker (July 3, 2014 9:09 pm)

**Posted by This Is The Phantom Lady** July 4, 2014 9:53 pm

Oooh those are really neat! I used to love stitching so much! I think the last thing I did other than my cross stitch work was stitching silver sequins onto a glove for my Michael Jackson costume...

**Posted by stoertebeker** July 5, 2014 7:25 am

Thank you Phantom . I haven't tried real stiching works jet although I recently bought a stiching starter pack with needle, yarn and a tablecloth. But I haven't found time to try it so far .
I really liked you Tardis by the way, great work ! I would like to try cross-stiching also sometimes. Ah what a shame, there are so many creative techniques to try, but never enough time . I can not enter a crafting shop without leaving with several new ideas .