Creative Arts Needlecraft Projects

My first HubPage was in 2008, it was a Creative Arts Story on Needlecraft Arts.

It's now 2016, I'm adding some more ideas for children to try out at home with a needle and thread, building up for the future for their own homes, by creating your own art and achieving satisfaction wth your inner self.

Show day - School project.

Where have all those days gone?

It was a special day for the pupils at Midhirst School in Taranaki New Zealand.

A day to dress up, also your school calf, for prizes for the best creation.

It is amazing what children can come up with, ideas even I had not thought of, even more so when there was a special interest in creative arts which I had been doing for many years, now there where my grandchildren following on in my footsteps, sewing even for their school calves.

A day I will never forget, it lives in my memories today seven years later.

It surprised me, as my grandson was only 13 years old, he decided he was going as Bonnie and Clyde with his school calf, even the calf was carrying the money bags and a toy gun looking like the real gem.

His sister Misty with her calf all attire like a fairy, two calves enjoying the day also, (don't they look great) good education learning to enjoy animals.

Their older sister Haley was at polytech doing a fashion course, needless to say she was the one doing the sewing, but her brother was pretty good doing this type of creating also.

I'm pleased to see my grandchildren following on with fashion, after my 30 years in the rag trade, sewing, pattern grading, and in the cutting textiles.

As a young at heart nana, my grandchildren will keep me up with the trends of what's hot and what's not in my hobby of creative art and needlework.

At the age of 75 I'm still very interested in fashion, enjoy following up with all the different types of textiles, and offers insight into what teens these days are up to, for their attire.

Needlecraft of any kind is a gift that inspires creativity and promotes self-esteem and satisfaction with life.

Needlecraft was part of everyday schooling seventy years ago, one of the main ones taught was using sugar sacks and making oven cloths, by pulling the thread of the sugar sack out and rethreading if with different color threads.

Cross stitch was very popular as you can see by the above photo, I learned very early how to do a perfect cross stitch.

It is sad that this type of needlecraft has been lost, but it's never too late, you can buy canvas that the same thing can be learned, on put it in a frame makes very nice kitchen art.

First project - Learning to weave

When I went to school we would be supplied with a wooden loom and wool thread which had a shuttle to roll the wool on, just like the video below, only not so modern.

Many articles could be made on these, I weave a scarf and used it for many years, it was very strong, only the wool was a bit rough on my neck.

It isn't hard to learn to weave on cardboard, the above video explains it well.

Why not try, teach your children to do created artwork with needle and thread?

All you need is a basket full on needlework accessories and you can start creating your own hobby why not try something you have never done before?

Take a look in your mother sewing basket (ask first) you may be surprised at what you can accomplish if you try.

Second Project - Making Pom Poms.

Pom poms can be made out of cotton, paper, plastic and practically anything you can thread through a loop and a centre hole.
As a child, I had many hours of fun making Pom poms.

In those days, milk bottles had cardboard tops with a hole in the middle to pour the milk out and yes it was so easy to use them and they were a way of recycling the cardboard tops.

For the wool, we would unpick old worn out jerseys or sweaters.

That being so it never cost us anything to make them and we would add them to our hats, make smaller ones by trimming the milk bottle tops and sewing them on the ends of our scarves.

Also sewing them together and making a soft rug for our feet in the cold winter, as the floor would only be floorboards with mats here and there.

Yes we were brought up in the country and money was very scarce in the war years, anyway, we could keep warm we would use any needlework to help keep us warm.