Crafter’s Box is a subscription box for people who love to make. The Crafter’s Box has brought together experienced makers and has asked them to curate a unique box of tools and materials to build something beautiful. For $65 a month, you will receive everything you need to make something new and an online workshop will help you along the way. Also, every month is not only a different project, but a different craft altogether! October’s project is Contemporary Embroidery, while November’s will be a Scandinavian-Inspired Wooden Bead Crafting.
October’s Month was curated by Sarah K. Benning, an embroidery artist, and she has created a contemporary embroidery wall piece. Even if you are not familiar with embroidery, she has created an intermediate piece, but accessible to any level. The final result can be seen on the info card included in the box. Looks like we get some plants to help us get into Fall! It looks lovely and even before digging deeper in the box, I know where I’ll hang this piece. Inside the box, everything is wrapped in golden tissue paper.
Under the first layer of tissue paper, we have this awesome bag by a Brooklyn artist, Amelie Mancini. The bag is sturdy and the pattern follows the theme of our craft, I love it!
This bag was custom made for The Crafter’s Box to help us carry our embroidery project around. It was so nice to have a place where to keep everything neatly in one place, and easy to carry around for a quick embroidery fix!
The inside is lined with black fabric. It’s lovely. Also, the bag is big enough to fit comfortably everything in this box.
Digging deeper into the box, we have the basics to make our project. Two wooden hoop (7″ and 9″), some tacky glue, mini snips and a square of unbleached cotton. For this month’s project, we can choose to use either hoop, creating two different looks to the finished project. The chosen hoop will also be used as the hanging frame. At the end of the project, we can go and grab a new piece of fabric and make a second project with the second hoop. If you want a different design, Sarah K. Benning sells more of her own on her website, and they are all lovely!
Also provided for this project, 13 embroidery flosses, one length of cotton black pearle thread and an embroidery needle. I love the colours, it feels both tropical (with the luscious greens) and fall (the brown/orange colours). At the end of the project, I still had a lot of thread left, almost enough to do a second design. (Which I will do at some point, that was way to fun!) I like the fact that the materials use for this project can easily be found in a craft store to make more of it! So, if you like this month’s project, it’s easy to keep on going!
A little stitch glossary booklet was included.
The instructions for the stitches are very clear and easy to follow. I’ve kept it around while making this month’s project.
The pattern itself was not included in the box. It is available to be downloaded from The Crafter’s box website, where you can also find the video tutorial for this month’s project once you log in in your account. The video is about 40 minutes and I was really impress with how Sarah made it seems easy! It was very zen and peaceful to watch her do the project, and I couldn’t wait to get on to it.
Everything in the box!
So pretty!
So the first step was to transfer the design onto the fabric. The design doesn’t tell you in a clear manner what color goes where, but there are suggestions and it’s fun to go along and it’s very easy to figure it out. The designer mentioned that this project was almost like coloring. She also tells us to use the stitches we feel happy with, the one we felt were right.
That was after about two nights of work. At first, I tried to do the three threads as suggested by Sarah, but I didn’t like it. So I undid everything and started from scratch with two threads instead. Much better! So yeah, easy to fix problems!
After four nights of work, I had some help. She really liked the wooden hoop! (Pet-friendly project!)
Here’s the final result, glued on the hoop and ready to hang near some of my plants. It would be pretty in any room with plants, to share the love for them! I wanted to add more details to the carpet, but I ran out of the black thread. It was the only thread I wished we had more of. No worries, I like it that way anyway! (Also, for me, the carpet was a nightmare to do!!!)
October’s Crafter’s Box was awesome! I love everything about it, especially the fact that you had a lot of freedom with it. And the result is nice and fun to show off! And you get a nice bag! (Did I mentioned how much I love my new bag? Well, I do!)
November is Scandinavian-Inspired Wooden Bead Crafting!
Comments
Your bird is beautiful! Hope you have ordered her a squawk box subscription 🙂
Kiwi says thanks! She likes to model for the camera, when given the chance.
I haven’t got her a squawk box yet, maybe in the future!
What a fun box! I love your final project, especially with the bird helper.
The final project was lovely! It was also really nice to have a project I could carry around.
And Kiwi (the bird) was quite curious about the whole thing, especially the wooden hoop (to chew on) and the pouch (to hide in).