This is my favorite project that I have done yet, I just finished it yesterday and I am pretty proud of it. The best part it is 100% natural or recycled products. Which means total cost: FREE!
I was originally going to make a small dreamcatcher because I saw people do it with a vintage doily. well I can crochet my own! so I followed a pattern with regular size yarn and it turned out to be a BIG doily. The cost of the yarn was free because my grandma just gave me some of her yarn that she wasn't going to use. (recycled) but it was very white. I remembered my mom teaching me about a method called "tea dying." so I tried it. I didn't do it right which I'm glad I didn't because it gave it more of a tye-dye effect and I like how it turned out. (probably the only thing I bought about $3.00)
After that I rinsed it out and let it dry outside. Then I got out my collection of sticks. (which people think I'm weird because I collect pinecones/sticks/rocks/shells.) and started tying them with thick twine to form a sort of "circle."
Then I took some stronger yarn because I am pulling tight, and just wrapped it all the way around the sticks.
Then I added some twine on top for it to hang. and then I started on my collection of rocks/shells/feathers. Some shells have a natural hole in them, but for those that didn't I
used that tool to poke holes and for the rocks I used a leather pieces
to wrap them. (recycled from my mom)
I have been collecting these things literally since I was 5 years
old. My earliest memory was going to Grandpa Houskeeper's trailer and he sent us out to find Geodes. He would cut them in half and show us the
crystals inside. I have kept that since I was very young. He passed when I
was about 8.
The shells I have collected when I travel places,
like Hawaii and California. My dad also has given me some whenever he
goes to the beach. Some are even nasty ones from lake mead.
This crystal my mom gave me when I was very young.
The triangle rock is one I found hiking when I was in jr. high. It is supposedly a lava rock. I don't remember where I found it but my guess is by Stewart Falls. That is where I found a shell fossil but I am making that into a necklace.
The rest of the stuff is from Cody. When he worked at the Tropicana casino, they were taking down the old chandeliers. Cody knowing me, snuck a few crystal hangings and are now going to good use. The feathers are from Cody's first turkey that he slaughtered. (cody's motto: I was into bow and arrows before it became the trend) It was hard to keep Rosco from eating all the feathers before I got them up. It took me probably about 2 and a half weeks to finish.
END RESULT
Sweet Dreams
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