Project 366

Wondering what it could be?

I myself wondered what I want to do. Name was conceived for the project but what I had planned to execute was not that clear. Whether it will be 366 crafts or 366 days of crafts. Then I concluded that I will make at least one project a day, either in quilling or in silk thread or in news paper work or anything that I love to create as a craft. It could be for selling, or for gifting or for personal use. But I want to do atleast one project a day all through the 366 days of the next 2016. Hope I succeed in this venture. 

The group called Special Techniques

I started quilling only for one simple reason, I wanted to make dolls, and my dream is to fill my golu padis to fill with my own hand created dolls. I was and still am sure that I will not be able to do it with any kind of clay. But I can do with paper strips. Whenever and wherever I get opportunity to find quilling toy making tutorials, I will make sure, I am learning it. More than videos, pictures help me a lot to learn to make things the right way and when one wonderful gentle man in a group in FB announced that he is planning to teach making 3D dolls and asked people to contact him via his number, I jumped in and messaged him. He then added me to the whatsapp group called Special Techniques and lo my journey to learn a lot of things especially 3D figures started from there. It had been 3 months and with my teacher's permission, I will be sharing the projects that we all were taught one by one with pictures.

Not only that gentleman, but each and every one in that group is a wonderful artist by themselves and the way they teach others makes me feel at home and I definitely have learnt a lot of things from all there. 

One of the projects that I have learnt from the group.

The Quilling Crimper tool - An overview

The crimper tool is a device with two cogs and a handle, small and easy to carry in a pocket. This tool helps to make a wavy pattern in quilling strips that will give a unique style to your projects, be it 2D or 3D. When I purchased this tool, way back when I started quilling, ofcourse, I started collecting all the tools one by one seeing the net, I was making few 2D projects and decided to try making them using crimped strips. It definitely was fun making them and kids took turns in crimping the strips. It became a great holiday fun activity too.

Things to be noted while crimping:
5 mm strips get easily crimped, so do 7 mm.
If you donot keep the 10 mm strip properly a half of the strip is not crimped.
The 3 mm strips tend to get entangled in the cogs, so handle it carefully by holding one end of the strip.