Handicrafts

 Make your own Dipas

The lighting of diyas forms a part of celebrations and rituals of the festival. Houses are decorated with small diyas placed at boundaries and entrances.In fact, the name of Diwali is derived from the Sanskrit word Deepavali, which means the row of lights ("deep" means Diya and "avali" means row)

All you need is clay or modulating forma that dries at the air easily. You can use a shell as a form for shaping your dipa as a shell. 

First make a ball...

Modulate the forma around the shell 

Press it around the shell

Take the shell off

Make a flat ground on the backside so it can rest without moving around

Let them air-dry before you fill them oil.

Felting with wool🐚🐑🐑🐑

Make your own pockets, jackets or other creative things out of wool and soap only.

Discover your creativity with Mother Nature´s gift of sheep wool and the taste of olive soap that make the textile complete and natural.

Enjoy the rainy days inside.

Things needed:

wool,

soap,

hot water,

bubble sheet ,

two hands (:))

towel

🐑First you have to lay out two layers of wool in bricks...one vertical and one horizontal.

🐑sprinkle hot soap water on it, for fixing it cover the wool part with another bubble sheet.

🐑give a soft massage with your hands while putting some soap water on the sheet 

🐑roll it in a towel and tumble it horizontal and vertical many time while soaking the wool in hot soap water in between 

🐑once the felting process is finished keep it to dry up

🐑for this flute pocket I used a bubble sheet inside to seperate the layers to a pocket later on, cut the felt and take out the bubble sheet

🐑ready

🐑a button of cherry wood makes the pocket to close

(This is a flute bag for wood instruments to be protected well)

You can make so many different things out of wool like waistcoat, hair flowers, fluffy toys with bell inside...etc.

The inner working with the bubble sheet will be explained again separately. This is just to give you a rough idea how the felting works. We will discover more different types of felting step by step soon.

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waistcoat combined silk and wool as a great combination

This octopus is fluffy and has a small bell inside

its belly is silk fabrics