Thursday, July 2, 2009

Results: Ultimate Craft

Righto - it's been rather quiet on the Craft Laboratory blog front hasn't it? Is it the weather? The day job? Too much crafting (if only)? Nah - it's my other love - Ultimate Disc - AKA the game played with a frisbee. I could go on for days, days, about this game - but this is not the time or place for that. I did want to share some crafty goodness with you though. Last year my team (Sultry) was going to Nationals and my frisbee partner in crime (Yam Yam) and I were in charge of organising team gifts (prize given to the player we thought was most valuable on the opposing team). We came up with these - frisbee shaped heat packs - to soothe those sore muscles after playing 5 days of Ultimate games.


It was a brilliant concept - frisbee shaped and made using calico, felt, rice and a lot of love! We cut the calico into rounds a little bigger than your hand. It took a few nights of careful cutting for the felt lettering and then another night hand stitching them all on (we had a team craft night - some team mates have never forgiven me). If I had more time I would have hand embroidered the wording on the back but alas - it was written on with a Nikko pen (such regret). The calico was then sewn around, leaving a gap for filling with barely or long grain rice (enough so that you could mould it). The gap was then stitched up and hey presto!

2 comments:

  1. So lovely to catch up on the craft laboratory over a bottle of Blue Moon in the sticky evening. The frisbee packs are ingenious, and I'm envisioning all shapes of hot packs now as give-aways...mmmm, bagel shapes for bagel lovers, weiner-dog-shaped for w.d. lovers, and maybe even cheese-shaped for the cheese lover in all of us. A little blue veining sounds like an easy project. xo

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