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Wrenched Knees, Blog Carnivals, and Photo Quilts
I wrenched my knee this week, so I’ve been on Ibuprophen. I know some people swear by Ibuprophen, and I do, too—when no small children are around. I hate it. Hate. It. Unforuntately, this is one of those situations where the pain relief outweighs the side effects.
One casualty of Ibuprophen: I didn’t have it together enough to sign up for this week’s blog carnival. But eighteen other people were far more organized than I am (or, less than eighteen people, but eighteen posts total)—you can read the entries at MiKael’s Mania. Next week’s carnival is being hosted by Patricia at Experiments in Training Equines.
One lesson learned, thanks to this whole situation: standing wraps make great knee wraps. Who needs ace bandages?
As I have nothing new to post about riding (what with how I’m not riding for a week or two), here’s a project I meant to post around Christmas but didn’t:
The wall hanging was, if I remember right, about eighteen inches by three feet. The ornaments are about 2” square. I made these for a Secret Santa gift exchange this year—so the pictures, of course, are of my giftee, not me. And that seriously cool horse is hers, not mine. But I wanted to send something a little more personal than a bag of peppermints, and I’ve had the idea for this sort of photo-wall hanging floating around, so there was my excuse to make it! The ornaments were a side-effect, actually—I had extra transfer paper left over—but after seeing how well they turned out I made some for my up-down lesson students, too.
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There are special iron-on transfer papers out there that let you print things off your computer—photos, designs, text, etc—and then iron them on to fabric. And it doesn’t have to be fabric you’re going to quilt with—you can iron directly on to tshirts/sweaters/etc as well.
Most fabric stores carry it, and I think it’s in the craft section of WalMart as well. It’s pretty easy, although I usually find myself having to test/play with settings on my computer and printer for a while to get the best quality print-out.
On Feb 22, 2007, MiKael said:
Cool project but how’d you do it? I understand the quilting part but how did you get the pictures on fabric? Sorry if I sound like I come from the stone age but with 26 horses I don’t leave home much and I haven’t been to a craft store in years. So I’m clueless on new stuff.